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Sasha Thackaberry

Open edX - 21 views

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    Open edX. We're doing an LMS Review at Cuyahoga COmmunity College, and we're looking at what's going on in the marketplace in general. Interesting stuff.
Thieme Hennis

mooc.org - 27 views

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    Significant collaboration between Google and EdX. This is where the 98% will get their education.
Jeff Andersen

EdX launches nine low-cost online degrees - 12 views

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    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.
Peter Beens

Stanford Unveils Free Platform To Run Your Own Online Courses - 69 views

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    "Google and Stanford are more than just neighbors in Silicon Valley. They're becoming the leaders in the online learning revolution. And it's all happening fast and starting right about … now. Stanford, like Google, has now announced a free and open source platform that lets you run your very own Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Stanford's platform, dubbed Class2Go, has big and slightly different aspirations from its competitors. Developed as a non-profit project by eight Stanford Computer Science engineers, Class2Go is meant to offer not only a course-like project but also tools for collaborative research. The latter functionality is a change from what Google, edX, Coursera, and others are offering right now."
alexis alexander

What's the "problem" with MOOCs? « EdTechDev - 18 views

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    "What's the "problem" with MOOCs? In case the quotes didn't clue you in, this post doesn't argue against massive open online courses (MOOCs) such as the ones offered by Udacity, Coursera, and edX. I think they are very worthy ventures and will serve to progress our system of higher education. I do however agree with some criticisms of these courses, and that there is room for much more progress. I propose an alternative model for such massive open online learning experiences, or MOOLEs, that focuses on solving "problems," but first, here's a sampling of some of the criticisms of MOOCs."
Dimitris Tzouris

mooc.org - 17 views

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    mooc.org is an edX destination. We're working to help educational institutions, businesses and teachers easily build and host courses for the world to take. "
Andrea Raven

edX - 42 views

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    Free online college courses  offered from MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, etc
Rafael Morales_Gamboa

Prometheus and the Pendulum: Why the University of Michigan Joined edX | The EvoLLLution - 15 views

  • This first major wave of experimentation has revealed the magnitude of opportunity to transform lives and push the bounds of discovery
  • personalization at scale
    • Rafael Morales_Gamboa
       
      As commented by Stephen Downes in his talk in Mexico.
debbieskeil

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Accessibility | edX - 16 views

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    Accessibility for an organisation but hopefully useful for the individual. Ease of access
anonymous

Anant Agarwal Discusses Free Online Courses Offered by a Harvard/M.I.T. Partnership. - ... - 4 views

  • Granted, there are no papers to grade, and assignments aren’t free-form, but how does one professor handle so many students? We had four teaching assistants, and my initial plan was that they would spend a lot of time on the discussion forum, answering questions. One night in the early days, I was on the forum at 2 a.m. when I saw a student ask a question, and I was typing my answer when I discovered that another student had typed an answer before I could. It was in the right direction, but not quite there, so I thought I could modify it, but then some other student jumped in with the right answer. It was fascinating to see how quickly students were helping each other. All we had to do was go in and say that it was a good answer. I actually instructed the T.A.’s not to answer so quickly, to let students work for an hour or two, and by and large they find the answers.
  • Most students who register for MOOCs don’t complete the course. Of the 154,763 who registered for “Circuits and Electronics,” fewer than half even got as far as looking at the first problem set, and only 7,157 passed the course. What do you make of that?
  • EdX operates under an honor code, with no way to verify that the student who registered is the one doing the work. Is that likely to change? It’s quite possible employers would be happy with an honor certificate. We’re looking at various methods of proctoring. We have talked about people going to centers to take exams. There are also companies that use the cameras inside a laptop or iPad to watch you and everything else that’s happening in the room while you take an exam, and that may be more scalable.
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  • And because we will have all this data on how students actually use our materials, there are opportunities for research on learning. We can watch how many attempts students made before they got an exercise right, and if they got it wrong, what they used to try to find a solution. Did they go to the textbook, go back and watch the video, go to the forum and post a question?
Marty Daniel

Courses - 45 views

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    Free courses from leading universities
Marc Patton

edX - Home - 0 views

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    An organization established by MIT and Harvard that will develop an open-source technology platform to deliver online courses.
tfelch

- Edudemic - 9 views

  • Sensing the excitement from online education tools like edX, Google has just unveiled a (very beta) version of its own course building software. If you’ve ever wanted to run your own online courses, this might be worth your time
  • So we packaged up the technology we used to build Power Searching and are providing it as an open source project called Course Builder. We want to make this technology available so that others can experiment with online learning
  • We believe Google’s preliminary efforts here may be useful to those looking to scale online education through the cloud
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    Here's something to chew on.
Sharin Tebo

VideoNot.es: The easiest way to take notes synchronized with videos! - 96 views

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    Synchronize notes with online videos and save to Google Drive. Compatible with YouTube, Coursera, edX, Udacity, and Khan Academy.
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    I've seen this. It looks like a great tool for second language classes: http://cegepl2.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/use-video-notes-to-reinforce-listening-and-critical-thinking-skills/
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    pretty nice notetaking tool for MOOCs - integrated with Google Drive (nice!)
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    Video Note--taking notes while viewing a video
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