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Pip Cleaves

The Ed Techie: Digital scholarship - introduction - 1 views

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     presentation from #Change11 Mooc
Allan Quartly

educational-origami - home - 10 views

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    Wiki covering Bloom's Digital Taxonomy.
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    You might also like this Bloom's Digital Taxonomy and Web Tools Poster: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12784871/Bloom%27s%20Digital%20Taxonomy%20and%20Web%202%20Tools%20Poster.pdf It is important to me that we ensure the 'crete' level is not a tiny triangle, but a large box. Creation is an important part of 21stC Skill aquisition.
Cris Crissman

The Digital Promise - It Must Be Sustainable « Educational Technology and Cha... - 3 views

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    The MOOC as part of the "digital promise" all we educators can make and keep
Tai Arnold

'Harnessing America's Wasted Talent': You Don't Need a Weatherman….. - 0 views

  • n short, there is activity across the entire spectrum of learning, from pre-engineered and self-paced to open sourced and self-directed with more conventional models in between. All are enhanced and scalable as never before by the web and web-enabled technology.
Tai Arnold

digital digs: Welcome to badge world - 5 views

  • Colleges are filled with students who could give a damn about learning but desperately need that credential.
  • Then it's all about the badges. My kids can just give up on ever having a single moment of joy in their lives. Even if they were going to enjoy something, how can they when they've already committed to this transactional experience instead?
  • The commodification of learning was already quite clear in the Reagan era when we stopped thinking of higher education as a social good and instead defined it as an individual's investment in his/her human capital. 
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  • Anyone can open their own diploma mill, err I mean badge-selling operation? Of course not. Badges would have to be accredited by someone.
  • If you want to get a badge though, that's going to cost.
  • I think the presence of a badge could actually be a detriment to an otherwise genuine learning experience.
  • ]The whole point of education organisations adopting elearning is to cut costs. They are not doing it to improve education standards. They say it's to educate more. But we know this is a smoke screen. Bean-counters run universities and colleges just like they run commercial companies.For example, The Briish Council is planning to move into distance learning big time. 10,000s of new students. Their reasons (am I #cynic) won't be to improve educational outcomes (mostly English language teaching) but to get more qualifed teachers for for their bucks.
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    Thank you for compiling this info and posting for us all. I believe this is an interesting way to engage the learner and increase their extrinsic motivation to learn. I don't see elearning as a way to cut costs but rather a way to expand the reach of learning. Learning on line is different from face to fact and therefore it's possible that this commodification of learning is necessary as a result of these changing times.
Tai Arnold

What the Connections Acquisition Means | Getting Smart - 2 views

  • For Pearson, this transaction signals a more rapid move into school management that was anticipated.  Historically, the line between supporting and operating schools has been one they did not want to cross given the special venom for private enterprise when it takes outcome responsibility.  I suspect when they considered accelerating rate (see my forecast) of adoption of learning online, it made the decision easy.
  • One consistent message here at Getting Smart is that the shift to personal digital learning is happening faster than most observers suggest–we’re riding an exponential curve not a straight line.  Pearson gets that and has been very thoughtful about managing the Innovator’s Dilemma. 
Tai Arnold

"Or Equivalent" | iterating toward openness - 2 views

  • The point is that there isn’t currently a very good way to show you know what you’re doing other than to have a branded piece of paper that claims you do.
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    Badges as alternative to sheepskin -- will employers go there?
tatiluna

A Language Learning MOOC #EFL #ESL « A Point of Contact - 4 views

  • One important aspect of such a context is that often non-Western, and thus non-English speaking cultures do not have as much or the same experience with Distance Learning and Autonomous Learning. A MOOC structure seems to assume a certain level of familiarity with both, so this is one reason why more activity and guidance are a must in an LMOOC.
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      This is an important point that also should be emphasized more in the current Change11 MOOC, and also in the future with any other MOOCs if other kinds of students are going to participate.  In talking about education in other parts of the world, such as we have already hearing Zoraini Wati-Abas speak, we have to first understand the difference in structure or approach in that country.  OUM and the SMS strategy are more interesting when placed in the context of a country that has never seen such widespread distance learning before.  From my time spent in China, I think distance education would work well and be very appealing for many young people, but it may not be adopted for its inherent openness and difficulty to control.
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    great thoughts about flexibility and self-directed potential of LMOOC
Daniel Spielmann

Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum » Dave's Educational Blog - 2 views

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      True, this reminds me of the recent discussion about the role of academic publishers... http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/29/academic-publishers-murdoch-socialist
Allan Quartly

Welcome to My PLE! - YouTube - 4 views

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    Video of a 7th grade student's PLE
Jeff Merrell

Mobile learning: A tutor in your pocket « Jenny Connected - 3 views

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    Another good summary/commentary re:Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia presentation
Cris Crissman

Comments: Zoraini's presentation of using the SMS technology in OUM #change11... - 2 views

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    Thoughtful commentary on Zoraini's research
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    Agree...nice commentary
Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen

Mobile Learning at Open University Malaysia ~ #change11 - 4 views

  • The survey was carried out in more than 40 OUM learning centers throughout the nation with close to 3,000 respondents
  • it was found that 82.8 percent of the respondents said they would be ready for m-learning. Based on the survey, it may be generalized that 99 percent of OUM learners have mobile phones.
  • About 2,000 students enrolled in the May semester received a total of about 30 SMSes over a period of about 14 weeks. The responses from students were positive.
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  • Generally, the m-learning project made them more engaged with the content and activities of the course
  • In addition, some of the SMSes helped them stay motivated,
  • the SMSes helped them focus on the course, reminded them of important things
  • When we "teach" students in class in order to help them learn, we don't just help them understand the content of the lesson. We also provide tips, motivate them to do activities that will help move them along in the course, get them to participate in discussions and manage their learning/the course. It was the same with the SMSes. We believe, the will get enough content from the print module provided and from the face-to-face interactions with their tutors. So yes, m-learning was used to help "teach" as well as "manage" the student.
  • http://api.ning.com/files/U50Z6pDz8PFgpOps4yunShKHnKR0sbgJx7kyRnjI*eMXpEqJSiqz0n0GuUNtY4DBx3-BFMYIGIabLRg8EqkDO9-IevKFm5Bt/questionnairemobilelearningfirstquestion.pdf
Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen

Mobile Learning Toolkit - mobimooc | Google Grupper - 2 views

  • The mobile phone is now a ubiquitous item even among the world’s poorest, and in fact over 70% of the mobile phones on the planet are in developing countries.
  • The 98-page toolkit contains 15 mobile learning methods divided into 4 categories that trainers can choose from depending on their needs –
  • In addition to the methods, an overview of mobile learning is included in the beginning of the guidebook and a set of practical tools that allow the methods to be immediately put into practice.
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    Toolkits for mobile learning- especially in Africa
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    Toolkits for mobile learning- especially in Africa
Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen

Do MOOCs have a critical mass? « Jasmin Hamadeh on #change11 - 2 views

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    I like her question
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    I like her question
Lone Guldbrandt Tønnesen

#change11 or what is a MOOC? « Cathy Anderson - 2 views

  • MOOCs are boundaryless and test our capacity to learn and absorb informatio
  • Mobile technology is changing not only how we learn but where and whe
  • This new territory has no history upon which to draw from experience to make decisions..we have only the present and we can only speculate about the future and impact upon humans, our knowledge and new technologie
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  • This course will allow us the opportunity to collaborate together and experience first hand this new way to learn. In addition to this we can evaluate whether or not this is an effective way to learn
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    Blog about MOOC´s
wayupnorth

Pedagogy First! - 6 views

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    see also http://edtechtalk.com/node/5010 where Kate Robbins explains it on coolcast
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