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Social Media in Higher Education | Open Learning Network - 0 views

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    "approaches, the challenge of translating this across the higher education sector remains. The reasons are complex and multifold: educational rules and restrictions in different countries, access, technical resources, ICT literacy, teaching capacity, and teaching cultures are widely cited. One key issue is concerned with cultural issues, teachers' belief systems and their day to day practice. Teacher practice is still predominately built around a notion of teacher as expert and student as recipient. Despite the shift in educational thinking towards more constructivist "
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ScienceDirect - The Internet and Higher Education : Blended learning: Uncovering its tr... - 0 views

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    " for a larger and more diverse cross-section of the population, to cater for emerging patterns on educational involvement which facilitate lifelong learning and to include technology-based practices in the curriculum" (p. 143). A source of this transformation stems from the ability of online learners to be both together and apart-and to be connected to a community of learners anytime and anywhere, without being time, place, or situation bound. Moreover, the increasingly prevalent practice of the convergence of text-based asynchronous Internet-based learning with face-to-face approaches is having a volatile impact on traditional campus-based institutions of higher education. To this point, the Pr"
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The Value of MOOCs to Early Adopter Universities (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 1 views

  • The three universities have invested considerable thought into something less often discussed in the press: how education on their own campuses would benefit from their MOOC efforts. Both faculty members and those in senior administration with responsibility for MOOCs note that the faculty are now more engaged in discussing pedagogy and learning outcomes and that new teaching methods enabled by MOOCs (such as flipped classrooms), and lessons learned from engaging in MOOCs (such as the value of shorter lecture segments and more frequent testing for understanding), are being applied to residential education in interesting ways.
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    "The three universities have invested considerable thought into something less often discussed in the press: how education on their own campuses would benefit from their MOOC efforts. Both faculty members and those in senior administration with responsibility for MOOCs note that the faculty are now more engaged in discussing pedagogy and learning outcomes and that new teaching methods enabled by MOOCs (such as flipped classrooms), and lessons learned from engaging in MOOCs (such as the value of shorter lecture segments and more frequent testing for understanding), are being applied to residential education in interesting ways."
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Impacts of MOOCs on Higher Education | Higher Ed Beta @insidehighered - 0 views

  • but MOOCs have helped focus attention on the teaching and learning process on our campuses.
  • Team-based course design. Creating MOOCs requires people across the institution to collaborate in ways not native to higher education. Instructional designers, software developers, learning researchers, librarians and videographers team up with faculty (the domain experts) to create each MOOC.
  • Creation of new space for experimentation.
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  • compelling vision for higher education that serves the needs of all learners in society.
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Trends in Educational Technology report | CLT @ LSE - 0 views

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    Moocs, byod, gamification and learning analytics. Useful info on cost of moocs for an institution and the number of production and teaching hours required
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Innovative Pedagogical Approaches for Higher Education - 0 views

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    Global competition useful on judging criteria
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NILE External resources - 1 views

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    Links to and reviews of educational applications of external tools from University of Northampton
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