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Carolyn Kraut

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shared by Carolyn Kraut on 31 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Carolyn Kraut on 31 Mar 11
     
    This is a visual representation of my Personal Learning Network. Each tool obviously has a different purpose. Sometimes I want to share a story through pictures, find inspiration/motivation, talk about articles, books, and current events, and sometimes I just need to look stuff up.
Carolyn Kraut

Online Courses, Still Lacking That Third Dimension - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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humantouch interaction online

shared by Carolyn Kraut on 09 Feb 11 - No Cached
  • Those relationships — with humans in the flesh — help students to persevere. Online courses are notorious for high dropout rates.
  • There is something motivating about the student’s relationship with the instructor — and with the student’s relationship with other students in the class — that would be absent if each took the course in a software-only environment.
  • We should focus on having at least one great course online for each subject rather than lots of mediocre courses
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  • What is sacrificed when classrooms disappear, the place where good teachers do not merely ‘deliver content’ to students but wake them up, throw them on their feet and pull the chair away? Where ideas can become intoxicating, where an instructor’s ardor for a subject or a dimension of the world can be contagious? Where scientific, literary, ethical or political passions are ignited?
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