MOOCs must be open in both enrollment and licensing | opensource.com - 1 views
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characteristics of open: * enrollment (i.e., open registration), licensed materials (using Creative Commons) * gratis (available at no-cost), libre (everyone has legal rights to repurpose the resource) but some of the "new cohort of MOOCs are open enrollment but not yet openly licensed their courses (experimenting with various business models) "MOOCs should address copyright and licensing early on so they are clear to users how they can utilize and reuse educational materials offered on the site. MOOCs should choose to adopt an open license that meets their goals, but at minimum it is recommended that they choose a public, standardized license that grants to its users the "4Rs" of open content: the ability to Reuse, Revise, Remix, and Redistribute the resources. "
Why Khan Academy Is The Wrong Answer « Looking Up - 12 views
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Popular efforts to improve education are focusing on the wrong problem. Millions of dollars and hours of innovation are being spent on improving how we deliver content in an era when content matters less and how we interact with it matters more.
Risk and Ethics in Public Scholarship | Inside Higher Ed | Tressie McMillan Cottom, Emo... - 1 views
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The irony of good public scholarship is that when it is done well it will inspire strong reactions. You’ve not lived until your first Internet hate message. That vitriol is one thing when it is confined to comments on a blog post but when it is coming from colleagues or senior members of your field engagement can have serious consequences. Making public scholarship less dangerous requires institutional commitment, allies, and advocates.
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social media and online spaces provide a means for women and minority scholars to build networks as protective factors against institutional forces that marginalize them. But, I offer that argument with a caveat: doing so is not without risk.
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a wise and wonderful essay - especially important for those scholars who might buckle under the bullying and harassment so common in academia but more frightening when open and in the public domain. MOOCs should encourage public scholarship - and help to make it more valued... and of higher quality - but they will need to include in the design that the facilitators modeling advocacy and constructive kinds of alliances for the participants. That is, providing that "institutional commitment" for public scholarship that is thoughtful and intriguing (vs. public showboating).
Google Public Policy Blog: Promoting civic innovation through technology - 0 views
Stanford Engineer Develops Virtual Science Labs for MOOCs - Curriculum Matters - Educat... - 6 views
The Minerva Project and the Future of "E-lite" Education - Online Universities.com - 3 views
Coursera, edX, and MOOCs Are Changing the Online Education Business | MIT Technology Re... - 2 views
What is big data? - multiple perspectives from The Economist (Ideas Economy: Informatio... - 0 views
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Andrew Chung (partner, Khosla Ventures); Beth Comstock (senior VP, GE); Andie Grace aka "Actiongrl" (communications manager and regional network manager, Burning Man); Jason Silva (co-founding host, Current TV); Don Tapscott (co-author, Macrowikinomics) "This is not an Information Age - it's one of networking, collaboration"; Craig Hatkoff (co-founder, Tribeca Film Festival) "The question is are we wise enough"?
Take us to your leader: thoughts on leadership in higher education | Higher Education N... - 0 views
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by Eliza Anyangwe, - she opens with an image of Martin Luther King Jr. at the podium: "Martin Lurther King was a great leader. Are there any such figures in higher education?" what she doesn't address is that King relied on local "bridge" leaders to do the everyday work - and that the role of community activists was crucial to King's own success. She starts the live chat with Janine Utell and English prof from Widener Univ in PA (my personal fav expert on leadership qualities is historian Doris Kearns Goodwin); but then gathers leadership-in-the-trenches voices from men: Craig Mahoney (http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/); William H Graves (http://www.ellucian.com); Richard Hall (http://www.dmu.ac.uk); Paul Gentle (http://www.lfhe.ac.uk); Jonathan Ruddle (http://www.maxximconsulting.com); and finally, a woman's voice - last and least - Dawn Freshwater (http://www.leeds.ac.uk)
Adaptive Leadership for the Completions Priority (2011) draft paper by William H Graves... - 0 views
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Challenge: The Completions Priority "The completions marketplace should be redesigned to improve overall scalability, measurable impact, mutual affordability, and sustainability. To do so while avoiding intrusive government regulation and retaining local autonomy will require voluntarily confirmed "rules of the road" that enable effective completions practices at autonomous micro levels to be rolled up collectively into mutually affordable common-good macro solutions." Solution: Economic Governance for the Completions Marketplace - a common good critical to economic and social progress "The wisdom of a crowd willing to inform and support adaptive change leadership might help create common ground in a nonprofit, non-governmental global Education Leadership Commons (ELC) formed for the purpose of developing and evolving open interoperability of common educational services, processes, and accountability metrics, all at a minimally intrusive, trusted level of economic governance. Modeled along the lines of the Internet Society's so-far successful governance mechanisms, the ELC could be operationalized through standing working groups, their advisory or governance committees, and other nested and loosely-coupled, efforts to advance and sustain educational attainment within and across the three dimensions of the completions marketplace." - Completions Productivity Task Force - Economic Governance Council chart on page 6: Governance Matrix of Rights and Responsibilities in the Completions Marketplace student, assessment provider, education provider, government (other other funding source) 8 possible outcomes, including accreditation's formative peer-review process is retained "to create "trust-but-verify" economic governance collaborations" "If government can't provide the leadership and funding stability required for victory, then we the people should do so through a social networking micro-contribution mechanism, not unlike the micro-loan infrastructure cr
Global Flow of Tertiary-Level Students - 1 views
On Leadership: Harvard's Faust on lessons in change management - The Washington Post - 1 views
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