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yeuann

How MOOCs Could Meet the Challenge of Providing a Global Education | MIT Technology Review - 0 views

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MOOC learning education onlinelearning

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  • As MOOCs cast their eye to the developing world, very minor tweaks matter a great deal, such as the ability to allow students to download, rather than only stream course videos. But even more major ones are coming, including edX’s plans to start open-sourcing its platform in the next few months, which could allow even more universities to post online courses, and software programmers around the world to experiment with customized interfaces.
  • “We need to make sure we are making tools that make it easy to create new content, so it’s not only someone at MIT or Stanford who creates.” Relevance, as he notes, is one of the biggest motivators for students.
  • One of the major challenges for MOOCs—which so far mostly come from U.S. universities—is to tailor the content of courses to a diverse worldwide audience with any number of combinations of language, educational, motivational, and cultural backgrounds. Critics fear the rise of big box education from only a few elite institutions in Western nations, and worry these may not fit the different learning styles in different nations.
Rachel Tan

Coursera, Pedagogy, And The Two Faces Of MOOCs - 2 views

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cMOOC xMOOC Coursera_pedagogy Connectivist_approach

shared by Rachel Tan on 21 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Rachel Tan on 21 Jun 13
     
    The author shows how the Coursera pedagogy for xMOOC is still an instructivist approach aka a classic "sage on the stage" approach but which is one-to-very-many cMOOC is based on the connectivism-inspired approach, and focus on knowledge creation and generation whereas xMOOCs focus on knowledge duplication (Siemens, 2012) @MarkSmither puts it: "in an xMOOC you watch videos, in a cMOOC you make videos." You can probably guess which MOOC type NIE is adopting
casey ng

MOOCs in Higher Education: Options, Affordances, Pitfalls (Part 1) - 1 views

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MOOC

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  • casey ng on 23 Jul 13
     
    These cMOOCs are characterized by a certain DIY (do it yourself) or "edupunk" feel. In 2012, with the introduction of ventures like Coursera and edX, we saw the rise of what George Siemens in his July 25, 2012 blog entry called the xMOOC (please see the References for a link). The xMOOCs are another camp entirely, institutional courses materialized in Coursera and Coursera-like platforms.
Eveleen Er

What is MOOC? « Learning Technologies - 0 views

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shared by Eveleen Er on 21 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • There has been a lot of buzz about MOOC, the free Massive Open Online Course.  To date, many learners have signed up and participated in this form of super-sized open education course
Ashley Tan

Instructure Lands A Hefty $30M To Take On The Blackboards And Moodles In A Multi-Billio... - 1 views

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cel lms

shared by Ashley Tan on 05 Jun 13 - No Cached
  • Adding a MOOC layer to a learning program or platform isn’t particularly original these days, as Blackboard and seemingly every player in this space scrambled to become MOOC-capable at about the same time as Instructure
  • Ashley Tan on 05 Jun 13
     
    For ETs
yeuann

Harvard-MIT's edX Brings Research Focus to Cloud Ed | Cloudline | Wired.com - 0 views

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learning instructional web feedback research

shared by yeuann on 08 May 12 - No Cached
  • While edX shares the common theme of scaling the online experience to very large groups, it adds an important component lacking from the various Stanford spin-offs, namely research.
  • EdX partners will be doing more than putting content online, they will be studying how people learn in these environments in an effort to improve both classroom and online learning.
  • yeuann on 08 May 12
     
    According to this article, the most significant factor is not the scaling of online instruction (which isn't a new thing already) _but_ the ability for educators to study how people learn in various environments. Timely and accurate feedback is an essential component, not only for students, but also for educators, in improving the quality and relevancy of education for smaller groups. Personally, I think that the rise of massively open online courses (MOOCs) will ironically lead to a huge increase in the number of customized and localized courses tailored for niche sub-groups. Instead of seeing a huge dissemination of one-size-fits-all education, we will see an increasing diversity of different educational strategies, similiar to how the diversity of an ecosystem increases when its geographic size increases. It's a very exciting time for educators out there indeed...
wittyben

http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/mike.sharples/Reports/Innovating_Pedagogy_report_20... - 1 views

www.open.ac.uk/...ating_Pedagogy_report_2013.pdf

pedagogy Innovation learning research

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  • wittyben on 16 Sep 13
     
    For CeLebs who like to learn a little more about MOOCs, learning analytics, geo-learning... etc, here's an innovation report by the Open U for your info and reference.
yeuann

Q&A: Bill Gates on Flying Cars, the Malaria Epidemic, and Article-Writing Robots | Wire... - 0 views

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shared by yeuann on 22 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • Wired: You’re interested in massive open online courses and have championed Salman Khan’s videos. If these had been around when you were young, would it have affected your schooling? Gates: No. For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good. Now, if you’re the kind of person who gets stuck on Chapter 5 and will give up if you don’t have someone to answer questions, don’t try and pick up the Feynman lectures on physics. That’s true whether it’s online or offline. A MOOC is an attempt to gather a group and encourage students, almost like a typical classroom, forcing you to interact during the lecture so that it kind of wakes you up and keeps you engaged. A hyperlearner doesn’t have to have those things.
wittyben

30 Trends In Education Technology For 2015 - 0 views

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education technology trends 2015

shared by wittyben on 09 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Rethinking data in the classroom
  • Adaptive learning algorithms
  • Experimentation with new learning models (including flipped classroom, sync learning, blended learning, etc.)
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  • Teacher self-directed PD, webinars, streams, etc.
  • Focus on learning spaces
  • Design thinking
  • Gamification of content
  • Genius hour, maker hour, collaboration time
  • Workflows
  • YouTube channels, Google Chromecast, AppleTV
  • Google Drive
  • Google
  • Professional Learning Communities
  • Traditional reading lists of truly great literature
  • Pure creativity
  • Self-directed learning
  • Massive in-person education conferences
  • The physical design of most school buildings and universities
  • Memorization of prioritized content that leads to design thinking
  • Gamification-as-grading-system
  • Cloud-based learning
  • Apps like Prezi
  • Moving from one OS to another (e.g., from Android to Windows Phone)
  • Socioeconomic disparity
  • Mobile learning
  • Mobile assessment
  • Mass education publishers
  • Data Teams
  • “21st century learning” as a phrase or single idea
  • MOOCs
  • Increased “instructional hours”
  • Standards-based grading; pass/fail; student retention
  • Pressure on teachers
  • The traditional classroom
  • Whole class processes
  • Flash drives, hard drives, CDs, emailing files
  • Alternative schools/classrooms for special needs students
  • Apple-centric thinking
  • Apps like PowerPoint
  • Cable television, subscription-based content streaming
  • Oversimplifying BYOD thinking
  • “Doing projects”
  • In-app purchase gouging
  • Dropbox
  • Mobilizing non-mobile content
  • wittyben on 09 Jun 14
     
    Tech in edu trends you might be interested to know...
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