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Ed Webb

Meet the EduPunks: Radical Self-educators Start a Movement - 68 views

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  • Rob Reynolds on 09 Jul 10
     
    "If that spirit is missing from the university, then the university has to find a way to recapture that spirit and to be a platform for it." Ahhh!, there lies the rub...how to take "apathetic" students and help/guide/persuade them to "recapture that spirit. For that, there is no canned program, but requires true teaching skills with a compassion for learning. With accountability for teachers and students alike measured by test scores, this 'spirit' is not being nurtured. So, where is the radical reform?
Ed Webb

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shared by Ed Webb on 10 Feb 09 - Cached
  • (There is a rich - if unexpected - source of inspiration for this kind of collaborative space in the history of the 19th century mutual improvement societies, reading clubs and other self-organised, working class institutions. For example, the church halls and upstairs rooms of pubs where many of them met are still common enough - and would be worth exploring as possible venues for a group trying to set up such a space today.)
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      Ed Webb on 10 Feb 09
       
      Not so unexpected - the Workers' Educational Association is one important part of the genealogy of Edupunk.
Randolph Hollingsworth

Josh Baron - The Ed Tech Journey and a Future Driven by Disruptive Change - 31 views

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  • Randolph Hollingsworth on 04 Mar 11
     
    Joshua Baron, Director, Academic Technology and eLearning Marist College, Campus Technology 2010 (7/22/2010) 52 mins
Tracy Tuten

A guide to online educational resources. - NYTimes.com - 90 views

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shared by Tracy Tuten on 22 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Richard Ludlow started the nonprofit Academic Earth two years ago after M.I.T.'s OpenCourseWare helped him pass linear algebra as a Yale undergraduate. His site offers the courses of 10 elite universities — 130 full courses and more than 3,500 video lectures. Viewers can turn the tables on professors and grade courses. Other guidance includes "Editor's Picks" and "Playlists," lectures selected around a theme like "First Day of Freshman Year" and "You Are What You Eat."
  • Connexions, started at Rice University 10 years ago, debundles education for the D.I.Y. learner. Anyone can write a "module," the term for instructional material that can be a single sentence or 1,000 pages. Connexions hosts more than 16,000 modules that make up almost 1,000 "collections." A collection might be, say, an algebra textbook or statistics course.
  • Daniel Colman is a curator of sorts. He sifts through the vast amount of free courses, movies and books offered online to find what he considers the very best in content and production value. Then he features them on Open Culture, the Web site he founded in 2006. It's a task in keeping with his mission as associate dean and director of Stanford's continuing education program.
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  • At last count, the site had 2,700 audio and video lectures from more than 25 universities; 268 audio books; and 105 e-books. Dr. Colman says he looks for lectures that "take ideas and make them come to life." And so you can learn 37 languages on Open Culture, or stream Jane Austen audio books, Hitchcock films and a John Hopkins biology lecture.
  • Why pay for test prep? M.I.T. OpenCourseWare has culled introductory courses in physics, calculus and biology, along with problem sets and labs, to help students prep for the Advanced Placement exams. (Not to miss an opportunity, there’s a link to the admissions office.)
  • Sydney Lacey on 22 Apr 10
     
    Thousands of pieces of free educational material - videos and podcasts of lectures, syllabuses, entire textbooks - have been posted in the name of the open courseware movement. But how to make sense of it all? Businesses, social entrepreneurs and "edupunks," envisioning a tuition-free world untethered by classrooms, have created Web sites to help navigate the mind-boggling volume of content. Some sites tweak traditional pedagogy; others aggregate, Hulu-style.
  • Tracy Tuten on 23 Apr 10
     
    Amazing online resources for education
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