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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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Learnlets » Slow Learning - #change11 - 0 views
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Our limitations are no longer the technology, but our imaginations
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“work is learning and learning is work”,
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how would you construct an optimal performance environment for yourself?
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How Codecademy got so hot, so fast - Tech News and Analysis - 0 views
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more than 1 million users
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five full-time staffers.
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I learn best by building things and breaking things, not by just reading something.
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Teaching in Social and Technological Networks « Connectivism - 6 views
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How can we achieve clear outcomes through distributed means?
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How can we achieve learning targets when the educator is no longer able to control the actions of learners?
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A curatorial teacher acknowledges the autonomy of learners, yet understands the frustration of exploring unknown territories without a map.
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Why Learning Should Be Messy | MindShift - 2 views
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“If you were to hike the Appalachian trail, which would take you months and months, and you reflect upon it, you do not divide the experience into the historic, scientific, mathematic, and English aspects of it. You would look at it holistically.”
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In practice, this means the elimination of English, mathematics, history, and science class.
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Interlocutor: The Word of 2012 - 5 views
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If there is only partial participation, is it only the loud that will succeed?
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The network is the medium. And if the network is stunted or ambivalent to actively participate, we run the risk not of a digital divide but of a competence divide.
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Let 2012 be about the interlocutor. I post, therefore I am.
Why You Must Define the So-What of Learning - 6 views
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If employees or students believe learning occurs only in an annual classroom course, amphitheater lectures or the annual array of mandatory e-learning offerings, how does that unleash the collective intelligence hidden throughout the workforce? An organization’s definition of learning must include formal, informal and social modalities to ensure employees are being counted on to contribute their intellect, ideas and knowledge back to the ecosystem.
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Let’s first start with by defining learning, such that employees and students are aware they don’t have to wait for a course to learn. They don’t have to search the LMS as the only viable way in which to increase their knowledge.
Learnlets » Learning Experience Design thru the Macroscope - 0 views
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But with mobile technologies, we have the capability to truly start to deliver what I call ‘slow learning’: delivering small bits of learning over time to really develop an individual.
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Most of our learning comes from outside the learning experience. But can we do better?
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to develop individuals in micro bits over a macro period of time rather than macro bits over a micro bit of time (which really doesn’t work)
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Learning with 'e's: Blogging about - 5 views
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I know, academic publishing has never really been about how many people read your work, it's usually more to do with the kudos gained from publishing in an elite journal. And that's exactly what is so badly wrong with the current academic publishing system.
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Blogging is an ideal popularist method for making ideas and research accessible for all.
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Many a valuable debate has already been had on blogs, with a simple post as the stimulus for valuable dialogue across a community of practice.
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The Primary Challenge for the OER Movement | iterating toward openness - 4 views
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1. The Complete and Utter Lack of Assessment in the OER Space.
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The vast majority of OER in the world do not include any assessments.
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some people in the field need to turn their attention to the creation of Open Assessment Resources (OAR).
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iPads at AES - a snapshot of iPads in school - YouTube - 4 views
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Why would you not allow comments on this video - feels like someone is not up for open discussion... Maybe that's because some of the statements seem quite naive. So students can learn faster with apps - what about learning depth and quality - any findings about that?
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I think it's about time for people to stop talking about the iPad and start talking about tablet PCs instead. So the iPad is "unquestionably great" for learning and they come up with that conclusion after two months of using the device in class. Hm. Can't help but think this all sounds more like an ad for Apple than anything else.
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