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Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen

Stanford's open courses raise questions about true value of elite education | Inside Higher Ed - 4 views

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Change11 stanford courses MOOC

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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.)
  • MOOCs question the value of teaching as an economic value point.”
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  • Based on the success of Norvig and Thrun’s experiment, the university’s computer science department is planning to broadcast eight additional courses for free in the spring, most focusing on high-level concepts that require participants already to have a pretty good command of math and science.
  • It raises the question: Whose certification matters, for what purposes?
  • For one, the professors can only evaluate non-enrolled students via assessments that can be graded automatically.
  • it can be difficult to assess skills without being able to administer project-based assignments
  • With a player like Stanford doing something like this, they’re bringing attention to the possibilities of the Web for expanding open education
anonymous

Own It: Social Media Isn't Just Something Other People Do - 4 views

www.theatlantic.com/...256212

social learning networks

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  • We look at a generation that has grown up online, and we worry about how "they" can't put down their iPhones, how "they" can't hold a real conversation, how "they" prefer distraction to presence. How will they form relationships? How will they learn to listen, or to be heard? The real and difficult questions are not about them, but about us. How will we choose to live online? How will we sustain conversations, build relationships, and cultivate genuine connection? And for those who are experiencing the kind of angst Turkle describes, an even more challenging question: How can I change when, where and how to plug in so that I actually like my life online?
  • We can have what Turkle terms a "big gulp of real conversation" -- through a chat window that keeps us connected, all day, to a best friend on the other side of the country. We can embrace the value of solitude and self-reflection, writing a blog post that digs deeply into a personal challenge -- perhaps choosing to write anonymously in order to share a deeper level of self-revelation than we'd brave offline. We can truly listen, and truly be heard, because online affinity groups help us find or rediscover friends who are prepared to meet us as we really are. These are the tools, practices, and communities that can make online life not a flight from conversation, but a flight to it. But we will not realize these opportunities as long as we cling to a nostalgia for conversation as we remember it, describe the emergence of digital culture in generational terms, or absolve ourselves of responsibility for creating an online world in which meaningful connection is the norm rather than the exception. We are making that digital shift together -- old and young, geeky and trepidatious -- and we are only as alone as we choose to be.
Константин Бугайчук

The Skills Both Online Students And Teachers Must Have | Edudemic - 9 views

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skills online learning students

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  • wayupnorth on 04 Apr 13
     
    very nice, concise summary of the essentials. thanks for sharing the link. I'd like to share this with the POTCERT group in which I've been seriously absent (Program for Online Teachers - certificate - it's a small MOOC run by Lisa Lane - we joked about the sMOOC POT acronym :-)
roland legrand

Tenured Professor Departs Stanford U., Hoping to Teach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 2 views

chronicle.com/...35135

professor stanford teach online higher education

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  • roland legrand on 24 Jan 12
     
    professor gives MOOC about AI and cannot return to business as usual
Keith Hamon

Organizing a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - 4 views

blog.clomedia.com/...assive-open-online-course-mooc

Tammara Combs mooc

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  • Typically, a MOOC begins by setting up a simple registration website put together by your facilitators
  • Offering a MOOC is like putting on Woodstock. It will probably be chaotic, unruly, produce totally unexpected outcomes
  • Everyone is part participant and part presenter
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  • If your company is looking for ways to expand its client base and position itself as a thought leader, consider hosting a MOOC.
  • For our purposes, consider a MOOC to be a free, open-ended, online course involving potentially thousands of participants using all kinds of social tools like websites, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, discussion forums — you name it — to discuss and learn about a topic from every angle and generate a body of knowledge that all can share.
  • I usually ask clients what they can give away for free that will increase their brand recognition or status. A MOOC is a great example.
  • the necessary ingredients for a MOOC: Knowledge or the opposite of knowledge: a question to which you don’t have an answer, but that you’d like to have answered. People to serve as facilitators. A digital infrastructure.
  • Hosting a MOOC doesn’t require: A large budget for staff. The mandate to measure ROI. A significant input of time, since participants take much of the lead. Physical space, since MOOCs take place in the virtual world.
  • Vanessa Vaile on 09 Jan 12
     
    Not just for ed or other training, relevant to local development, PR, marketing, branding, etc. 
  • Keith Hamon on 11 Jan 12
     
    the necessary ingredients for a MOOC:  Knowledge or the opposite of knowledge: a question to which you don't have an answer, but that you'd like to have answered. People to serve as facilitators. A digital infrastructure.
markuos morley

YouTube - What is a MOOC? - 1 views

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youtube mooc course online learning

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  • markuos morley on 13 Sep 11
     
    MOOC - Massive Open Online Course This is one of a set of videos that explains MOOCs that I have bookmarked.
markuos morley

YouTube - Success in a MOOC - 0 views

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youtube mooc success course online learning

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  • markuos morley on 13 Sep 11
     
    MOOC - Massive Open Online Course This is one of a set of videos that explains MOOCs that I have bookmarked.
markuos morley

YouTube - Knowledge in a MOOC - 0 views

www.youtube.com/watch

youtube mooc course online learning knowledge

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  • markuos morley on 13 Sep 11
     
    MOOC - Massive Open Online Course This is one of a set of videos that explains MOOCs that I have bookmarked.
Rob Parsons

The Medals of Our Defeats : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice : Bloomsbury Academic - 1 views

www.bloomsburyacademic.com/...-9781849666275-chapter-013.xml

scholarship

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  • Nicholas Carr's (2008) article ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid?’ struck a chord with many people. Carr's (2010) argument, which he fleshes out in his book The Shallows, is that our continual use of the net induces a superficiality to our behaviour. He says this is felt particularly when trying to read a complex piece:
  • The issue of quality is perhaps more keenly felt when we consider teaching. I raised the idea of pedagogy of abundance in Chapter 8, and in such a pedagogy the content will vary greatly in terms of quality.
  • the question is not whether some people produce poor quality content, obviously they do and the majority in fact, but whether as a whole this system can produce high-quality content.
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  • As neuroscientist Joshua Greene puts it, ‘the Internet hasn't changed the way we think anymore than the microwave oven has changed the way we digest food. The Internet has provided us with unprecedented access to information, but it hasn't changed what we do with it once it's made it into our heads’ (Gerschenfeld 2010).
  • Whether there are social and behavioural impacts of operating online is a serious question, however. Just as the television had serious social impacts, we must accept that computers and Internet will also have consequences. These will undoubtedly be a mixture of positive and negative, but I would argue that using pseudo-scientific explanations to back up prejudices will not help us address these issues.
  • For educators there are two main issues; the first is the extent to which they help students manage their online identity, and the second is how they manage their own boundary between personal and professional life.
  • The over-adoption of tools can lead to what has been termed ‘creepy tree house’ syndrome (Stein 2008) when authority is seen to try and invade a young person's social space.
  • There is strong resistance from students to universities and lecturers making formal use of social networks as this is seen as an invasion of their social space (e.g. Madge 2009).
  • For the teaching function of scholarship then the question is ‘How can educators utilise the potential of these tools without destroying what makes them valuable to students?’
  • I would suggest the following as the most challenging for digital scholarship: Moving beyond the superficial – many successful Web 2.0 services essentially allow a very simple function, for example, sharing a photograph. Can we use the same techniques for deeper, more difficult tasks?
  • Understanding quality – this is not just about maintaining current quality, as this may not be appropriate in many forms, but appreciating when different levels of quality can be used.
  • Managing online identity – there is a tension for scholars and their students in gaining the benefits of a social network, which thrives on personal interactions, while not compromising professional identity.
  • Ownership of scholarly functions – there is also a dilemma regarding how much of scholarly discourse and activity we give over to cloud computing services and whether the benefits in terms of widespread use and (often) superior tools outweigh the potential risks.
Steven Verjans

Alone Together by Sherry Turkle - 1 views

alonetogetherbook.com

technology society digital web2.0 change relations

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  • Steven Verjans on 13 Oct 11
     
    Sociological analysis of the digital life by Sherry Turkle (MIT). Does the abundance of online interactions overwhelm us and take a toll on our real-life interactions and relations?
  • Steven Verjans on 13 Oct 11
     
    Interesting angle from MIT Prof Sherry Turkle about the impact of online technology on relations in society. Need to read the book to know what her conclusion is, but the question she poses is relevant."Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. We begin to feel overwhelmed and depleted by the lives technology makes possible. We may be free to work from anywhere, but we are also prone to being lonely everywhere. In a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude. We turn to new technology to fill the void,but as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. "
Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen

mooc - rheingold - 3 views

mooc.wikispaces.com/rheingold

change11 rheingold

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  • It isn’t possible or practical to try to control the quality of content and conversation that people publish online -- if it had been possible, there would be no web, no YouTube, no Wikipedia today -- but I contend that it is possible to increase the proportion of the population who know something about what they are doing when they consume or create digital culture.
  • Although the word “literacy” traditionally refers to the skill of encoding and decoding messages or programs in some medium, the kind of literacy required in a world of mass collaboration necessarily involves a social element as well as a personal skill
  • Social media literacies combine the skills of coding and decoding digital media with the social skills necessarily to use online tools in concert with others
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  • We will look at facets of each of these five literacies and engage in learning activities that can both increase our own competencies and provide public useful public goods
Rob Parsons

Openness in Education : The Digital Scholar: How Technology Is Transforming Scholarly Practice : Bloomsbury Academic - 3 views

www.bloomsburyacademic.com/...-9781849666275-chapter-009.xml

scholarship

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  • Anderson (2009) suggests a number of activities that characterise the open scholars, including that they create, use and contribute open educational resources, self-archive,
  • From my own experience I would propose the following set of characteristics and suggest that open scholars are likely to adopt these.
  • Leslie (2008) comments on the ease of this everyday sharing, compared with the complexity inherent in many institutional approaches:
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  • citation levels of articles that are published online versus those that are in closed access journals. Hajjem, Harnad and Gingras (2005) compared 1,307,038 articles across a range of disciplines and found that open access articles have a higher citation impact of between 36 and 172 per cent. So publishing in an online, open manner aids in the traditional measures of citation.
    • Rob Parsons
      Rob Parsons on 09 Oct 11
       
      Openness as a working method, and openness as a movement, with a definable set of values.
  • This section will look at the most concrete realisation of the open education movement, namely that of open education resources. In particular I want to revisit the notion of granularity and how changes in this, afforded by new technologies, are changing scholarly behaviour.
  • Zittrain (2008) terms ‘generativity’, which he defines as ‘a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences’. Little OERs are high in generativity because they can easily be used in different contexts, whereas the context is embedded within big OERs, which in turn means they are better at meeting a specific learning aim.
  • Big OER projects have a variety of models of funding, and Wiley highlights three of these demonstrating a range of centralisation: a centralised team funded by donors and grants (such as MIT), linking it into teaching responsibilities (as practised at Utah State University) and a decentralised collaborative authoring approach (e.g. Rice Connexions, http://cnx.org).
  • The reasons for this are varied, including technical complexity and motivation. One other reason which the OpenLearn team suggest is that the ‘content provided on the site was of high quality and so discouraged alteration’.
    • Rob Parsons
      Rob Parsons on 09 Oct 11
       
      I wonder how much of a barrier the final integration of the material is - in a well structured object internal integration is high so the cost rises of extracting part or repurposing even the whole.
Tai Arnold

How Online Innovators Are Disrupting Education - Jason Orgill and Douglas Hervey - Harvard Business Review - 4 views

blogs.hbr.org/...nline_innovators_are_disr.html

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  • In fact, Gates, Khan, and teachers at the academy argue that online education can liberate teachers, allowing them to engage in more creative and influential one-on-one mentoring.
  • teachers can serve as professional coaches and content architects to help students progress in ways that they never could under most current models
  • Targeting non-consumers creates less backlash from teachers' unions and administrators, and could even generate student referrals from incumbents themselves.
  • Tai Arnold on 05 Nov 11
     
    "teachers can serve as professional coaches and content architects to help students progress in ways that they never could under most current model"
markuos morley

Experiences from Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and how the MOOC could potentially increase diversity, social inclusion & learner engagement | Squire Morley - 13 views

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squiremorley mooc moocs experiences review personal change11 ds106 openness coursera edx udacity #change11 learning education change

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  • markuos morley on 14 Jan 13
     
    My experiences from various MOOCs over the last couple of years condensed into a blog post.
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