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Stanford's open courses raise questions about true value of elite education | Inside Hi... - 4 views
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This made Stanford the latest of a handful of elite American universities to pull back the curtain on their vaunted courses, joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s OpenCourseWare project, Yale University’s Open Yale Courses and the University of California at Berkeley’s Webcast.Berkeley, among others. The difference with the Stanford experiment is that students are not only able to view the course materials and tune into recorded lectures for CS221: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence; they are also invited to take in-class quizzes, submit homework assignments, and gather for virtual office hours with the course’s two rock star instructors — Peter Norvig, a research executive at Google who used to build robots for NASA, and Sebastian Thrun, a professor of computer science at Stanford who also works for Google, designing cars that drive themselves. (M.I.T., Yale and Berkeley simply make the course materials freely available, without offering the opportunity to interact with the professors or submit assignments to be graded.)
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MOOCs question the value of teaching as an economic value point.”
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Avoiding the Trap of Clicky-Clicky Bling-Bling - 1 views
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"All that is clicky-clicky bling-bling does not make for an effective learning experience."
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s a load of elearning junk
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It's just shiny wrapping paper covering up a pair of crummy socks with holes in them.
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