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Jeff Andersen

EdX launches nine low-cost online degrees - 12 views

www.insidehighered.com/...s-nine-low-cost-online-degrees

online degrees

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  • Jeff Andersen on 12 Oct 18
     
    Online learning provider edX this week took a big step into the online degree space by announcing plans to launch nine low-cost, large-scale, fully online master's programs from selective institutions. The nonprofit company, one of the early providers of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, will offer the degrees from seven universities: the Georgia Institute of Technology; the University of Texas at Austin; Indiana University; the University of California, San Diego; Arizona State University and two Australian universities -- the University of Queensland and Curtin University.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Twitter vs. Zombies - 33 views

twittervszombies.com

game literacy social media

shared by Randolph Hollingsworth on 09 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 09 Nov 12
     
    Inspired by the popular campus game Humans vs. Zombies, join @Jessifer and @allistelling for an epic zombiefied experiment in Twitter literacy, gamification, collaboration, and emergent learning. Part flash-mob. Part Hunger-Games. Part Twitter-pocalypse. Part digital feeding frenzy. Part micro-MOOC. Part giant game of Twitter tag. Band together your most trusted Twitter allies to defend against a virtual Zombie horde. Collect canned goods, store water, watch your hashtags, and sleep with one eye open. THE RULES TO JOIN THE GAME: Register on this page. Commit to posting at least 10 tweets per day. THEN, TO PLAY: 1. A ZOMBIE can #bite (to attack) once every 30 minutes. A bite will turn a HUMAN to a ZOMBIE in exactly five minutes. A #bite can only be sent to a player who has been active on Twitter in the last five mins. 2. A HUMAN can #dodge (protect yourself) once per hour and #swipe (protect someone else) once per hour. 3. When you are bitten, you have five mins to reply to the ZOMBIE with #dodge or have another player reply to you and the zombie with #swipe. A turned HUMAN must update the Twitter vs. Zombies Scoreboard by changing his/her status to ZOMBIE. 4. The rules are emergent. There will be challenges, amendments, and rule adaptations as suggested by the community and implemented by administrators. Keep your eyes on the blog and #TvsZ for updates. Anatomy of an action tweet: [@name(s)] [body of tweet with action tag #bite, #dodge, or #swipe playfully inserted] [game tag: #TvsZ] Example of a bite/dodge: @DigiWriMo attacks: "@moocmooc I want to #bite your lovely flesh. #TvsZ @moocmooc dodges: "@DigiWriMo No you don't. I have not used #dodge in an hour. #TvsZ Example of a bite/swipe: @DigiWriMo attacks: "@moocmooc What's that lump on your neck? Is that some kind of #bite? #TvsZ @Jessifer defends: "@DigiWriMo @moocmooc I #swipe your hungry beak. [pets @moocmooc] #TvsZ The game is beta, and we will be crowd-sourcing the rules as it's played.
Martin Burrett

Free resource to support Biology A-level from @ThePhySoc - 10 views

ukedchat.com/...biology-alevel-thephysoc

physiology

shared by Martin Burrett on 06 Sep 17 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 06 Sep 17
     
    "A free resource to help teachers and students to gain a deeper understanding of how the body works has been launched by The Physiological Society in partnership with the University of Liverpool. The resource, a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), has been specifically designed to support the A-level Biology curriculum, with a focus on the respiratory, cardiovascular and nervous systems."
Tonya Thomas

course-builder - Course Builder - Google Project Hosting - 3 views

code.google.com/course-builder

google coursebuilder coursedesign onlinelearning builder MOOC course resources tools

shared by Tonya Thomas on 25 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Tonya Thomas on 25 Sep 12
     
    Course Builder is our experimental first step in the world of online education. It packages the software and technology we used to build our Power Searching with Google online course. We hope you will use it to create your own online courses, whether they're for 10 students or 100,000 students. You might want to create anything from an entire high school or university offering to a short how-to course on your favorite topic.
Thieme Hennis

Resources « Black Mountain SOLE - 27 views

blackmountainsole.org/resources

mooc campus learning resources reference open-education productivity p2p learning-network e-learning

shared by Thieme Hennis on 23 May 13 - No Cached
  • Thieme Hennis on 23 May 13
     
    Interesting set of resources for self-organized learning.
Craig Campbell

The Siege of Academe - www.washingtonmonthly.com - Readability - 1 views

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      Craig Campbell on 25 Apr 13
       
      Fear is a powerful motivator. Running scared.
  • Thiel fellowship.”
  • PR move
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  • the whole thing is a corrupt enterprise doomed to collapse in a spectacular, real-estate-market-circa-2008 fashion. The media lapped it up, and soon enough Thiel was featured in long New York and New Yorker profiles.
  • What Happened to the Future? We Wanted Flying Cars, Instead We Got 140 Characters.”
  • Investors have chased after clever short-term innovations and looked for quick profit, which is not only bad for the world but bad for most investors—since 1999, according to the manifesto, venture capital has lost money on average. Only the top 20 percent are any good.
  • There is a great deal of money and power at stake now. We may not know who and we may not know when, but someone is going to write the software that eats higher education.
  • most of the first adopters won’t be American students forgoing the opportunity to drink beer on weekends at State U. Instead, they’ll be students like Bali, among the hundreds of millions of people around the world with the talent and desire to learn but no State U to attend.
  • Political pressure will continue to grow for credits earned in low-cost MOOCs to be transferable to traditional colleges, cutting into the profit margins that colleges have traditionally enjoyed in providing large, lecture-based college courses.
Celia Emmelhainz

» Napster, Udacity, and the Academy Clay Shirky - 1 views

www.shirky.com/...apster-udacity-and-the-academy

shared by Celia Emmelhainz on 08 Feb 13 - No Cached
    • Celia Emmelhainz
      Celia Emmelhainz on 08 Feb 13
       
      And we've done all of that with education!
  • An organization with cost disease can use lower paid workers, increase the number of consumers per worker, subsidize production, or increase price
  • Cheap graduate students let a college lower the cost of teaching the sections while continuing to produce lectures as an artisanal product, from scratch, on site, real time
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  • We ask students to read the best works we can find, whoever produced them and where, but we only ask them to listen to the best lecture a local employee can produce that morning.
    • Celia Emmelhainz
      Celia Emmelhainz on 08 Feb 13
       
      Which is why I think amazing lectures and lecture-notes followed by in person discussion could be powerful. Like a reading group (aka english class) but for video.
  • he very things the US News list of top colleges prizes—low average class size, ratio of staff to students—mean that any institution that tries to create a cost-effective education will move down the list.
  • hese are where most students are, and their experience is what college education is mostly like.
  • a good chunk of the four thousand institutions you haven’t heard of provide an expensive but mediocre education
  • That’s because the fight over MOOCs is really about the story we tell ourselves about higher education: what it is, who it’s for, how it’s delivered, who delivers it.
  • OOCs expand the audience for education to people ill-served or completely shut out from the current system, in the same way phonographs expanded the audience for symphonies to people who couldn’t get to a concert hall, and PCs expanded the users of computing power to people who didn’t work in big companies. Those earlier inventions systems started out markedly inferior to the high-cost alternative: records were scratchy, PCs were crashy. But first they got better, then they got better than that, and finally, they got so good, for so cheap, that they changed people’s sense of what was possible
  • n the US, an undergraduate education used to be an option, one way to get into the middle class. Now it’s a hostage situation, required to avoid falling out of it.
  • Open systems are open. For people used to dealing with institutions that go out of their way to hide their flaws, this makes these systems look terrible at first. But anyone who has watched a piece of open source software improve, or remembers the Britannica people throwing tantrums about Wikipedia, has seen how blistering public criticism makes open systems better.
Maureen Greenbaum

My Education Path :: Find online courses and get free education! - 3 views

myeducationpath.com

mooc education e-learning elearning technology teaching

shared by Maureen Greenbaum on 18 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Maureen Greenbaum on 18 Feb 13
     
    Stephen Downes "We don't need no educator : The role of the teacher in today's online education "
George Hess

#ETMOOC | A MOOC about educational technology & media - Coming January 2013 - 3 views

etmooc.org

#etmooc learning education edtech

shared by George Hess on 14 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • George Hess on 29 Jan 13
     
    A good example of connected learning
smilex3md

A Brilliant Plan? | Inside Higher Ed - 13 views

www.insidehighered.com/...brilliant-plan

inside higher higher ed mooc satire administration mooa

shared by smilex3md on 02 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • smilex3md on 02 Jul 13
     
    Satire. In the article, the author proposes MOOAs (massive open online administrations) and posits that "By having one experienced group of administrators make decisions for hundreds of campuses simultaneously, MOOA would help address these problems expeditiously and economically.  Since MOOA would allow colleges to dispense with most of their own administrators, it would generate substantial cost savings in higher education."
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