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Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Of MOOCs and Mousetraps - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Very interesting blog post in Wired Campus by Karen Head with Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Media, and Communication, 2.21.13. Raises interesting curricular and technological design issues for upcoming MOOC underwritten in part by Gates.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Walk Deliberately, Don't Run, Toward Online Education - Commentary - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views

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    Blog post by William Bowen, March 25, 2013, on movement towards online education. He would like more hard evidence to understand impact/success among other effects, tool kits (platforms), new mind-set to attempt online to reduce costs without adversely affecting educational outcomes, what we must retain in terms of central aspects of life on campus such as "minds rubbing against minds." Excerpts: "My plea is for the adoption of a portfolio approach to curricular development that provides a calibrated mix of instructional styles." ... "Their students, along with others of their generation, will expect to use digital resources-and to be trained in their use. And as technologies grow increasingly sophisticated, and we learn more about how students learn and what pedagogical methods work best in various fields, even top-tier institutions will stand to gain from the use of such technologies to improve student learning."
Lisa Levinson

The Ed Techie - 2 views

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    Martin Weller's blog entitled: You can stop worrying about MOOCs now. Interesting in it reports the trend now that commercial MOOC providers are trending toward blended courses, and in Coursera's case, offering "MOOC-based learning on campus" which turns out to essentially be a course!
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Is Peer Input as Important as Content for Online Learning? | MindShift - 0 views

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    Article in MindShift, KQED, April 24, 2012 by Nathan Miton. Fabulous because it recognizes that content is one leg of learning stool. Excerpt: But at such a huge scale, what are the digital methods of teaching that work best? Philipp Schmidt, founder of the free online university P2PU, preaches three building blocks: community, recognition and content. Endorsement of peer learning potential Excerpt: The Stanford professors readily admit that some of the students who participated in their online courses provided their peers with deeper, more comprehensive answers than they were able to. The exponential explosion in opportunities for learning. Excerpt: in the past 10 years I've heard people say campus-based education better look out, that this will be threatening to their business model, and I've never really felt that until the last six months. The pace of change in open education is qualitatively different than it was even a few months ago." A new breed of digital pedagogy/andragogy/heutagogy Excerpt: "We probably haven't fully made the transition to digitally native pedagogies and learning approaches," Carson said. "The first generation of distance learning is basically an attempt to move the classroom online, and I think that part of the scalable learning of these massive courses is the breakdown of that model."
Lisa Levinson

Master's Degree Is New Frontier of Study Online - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    For the first time, a reputable institution, the Georgia Institute of Technology, will off a master's degree in computer science through MOOCs for a fraction of the on-campus cost, a first for an elite institution. If it even approaches its goal of drawing thousands of students, it could signal a change to the landscape of higher education.
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    Interesting NY Times article on a new direction for MOOCs.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Meet the New, Self-Appointed MOOC Accreditors: Google and Instagram - Wired Campus - Bl... - 0 views

  • But some of the biggest MOOC producers may have figured out how to jump-start employer buy-in: Get big-name companies to help design them.
  • Nineteen colleges now work with Coursera to offer what amount to microdegrees—it calls them Course Specializations—that require students to take a series of short MOOCs and then finish a hands-on capstone project. The serialization approach has proved an effective way to bring in revenue to support the free courses—to get a certificate proving they passed the courses, students each end up paying around $500 in fees.
  • By helping develop MOOC-certificate programs, companies are giving a seal of approval to those new credentials that may be more important to some students than whether an accredited university or a well-trained professor is involved.
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  • “We’re discovering that there are a huge number of willing and eager lifelong learners that are underserved” by higher education, he says. “We’re getting to the point where we’ll be profitable as a company.”
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    Very interesting articles on how MOOCs and people completing them are building respect for their accomplishment with employers. Also an interesting point by Thrun on '"there are a huge number of willing and eager lifelong learners that are underserved" by higher education.'
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Professors Consider Classroom Uses for Google Plus - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Hi... - 0 views

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    Preview of Google PLus's value to HE Excerpt: "Facebook does allow some selective sharing, but doing so is difficult to master. As a result, many professors have decided to reserve Facebook for personal communications rather than use it for teaching and research. "I don't friend my students, because the ability to share is so clunky on Facebook," says Jeremy Littau, an assistant professor of journalism at Lehigh University. "This gives us ways to connect with people that we can't do on Facebook." In Google Plus, users can assign each new contact to a "circle" and can create as many circles as they like. Each time they post an update, they can easily select which circles get to see it. B.J. Fogg, director of Stanford University's Persuasive Technology Lab and a consulting faculty member for computer science, says he plans to use Google Plus to collaborate on research projects: "Probably every project in my lab will have its own circle." Mr. Littau is even more enthusiastic. He posted an item to his blog on Thursday titled: "Why Lehigh (and every other) University needs to be on GPlus. Now." "I want to start using this in my class next term," he says, adding that he aims to expose his students to the latest communication technologies in all of his classes. He plans to try the video-chat feature of Google Plus, called "hangouts," to hold office hours online. The new system allows up to 10 people to join in a video chat. Mr. Littau may also hold optional review sessions for exams using the technology. "I can host chats a few nights a week," he says."
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

Pros and Cons of Social Media in the Classroom -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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    Brief look at social media use pros and cons in classroom; pros outweigh the cons of well-managed Twitter, Facebook, and Linked-in-based social learning activity.
Doris Reeves-Lipscomb

The MOOC Hype Fades, in 3 Charts - Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Educa... - 0 views

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    Very interesting assessment of downward appeal of MOOCs and their lack of sustainability, February 5, 2015, Steve Kolowich, The Chronicle of HE
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