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in title, tags, annotations or urlEdX 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.
Free resource to support Biology A-level from @ThePhySoc - 10 views
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"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."
How Listening and Sharing Help Shape Collaborative Learning Experiences | MindShift | KQED News - 30 views
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1. How Listening and Sharing Works
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In school, getting people to share can be difficult. Learners may be diffident, or they may not have good strategies for sharing. Children often do not know how to offer constructive criticism or build on an idea. It can be helpful to give templates for sharing, such as two likes and a wish, where the “wish” is a constructive criticism or a building idea.
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But more often than not, it is because one or more of five ingredients is missing: joint attention, listening, sharing, coordinating, and perspective taking.
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Prometheus and the Pendulum: Why the University of Michigan Joined edX | The EvoLLLution - 15 views
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This first major wave of experimentation has revealed the magnitude of opportunity to transform lives and push the bounds of discovery
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personalization at scale
Learning, made joyful - Memrise - 35 views
Peer Pressure Will Help You Finish That MOOC | EdSurge News - 11 views
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using group structures in MOOCs to encourage completion - co-workers, book club 2.0 or virtual collaborators - success higher when teams can meet in person, teams average size is 4.2; start working with people you know; be creative with virtual collaboration; customizable design for personal projects
Far from bust: five ways MOOCs are helping people get on in life - World leading higher education information and services - 21 views
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) - free, short courses made available to everybody online - were expected to herald the end of higher education as we knew it when they began. But the hype soon died away and critics bemoaned the fact that learners quickly lost enthusiasm and dropped out in large numbers.
Koller, Thicke, and Noble: The "Blurred Lines" Between Traditional Online Courses and MOOCs - 17 views
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By making auditing online courses easy and free, they exponentially expand their ability to attract and capture student data, which will remain in the silo.
Semi-automatic method for grading a million homework assignments - O'Reilly Radar - 34 views
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The above figure is the landscape of ~40,000 student submissions to the same programming assignment on Coursera's Machine Learning course. Nodes represent submissions and edges are drawn between syntactically similar submissions. Colors correspond to performance on a battery of unit tests (with red submissions passing all unit tests). In particular, clusters of similarly colored nodes correspond to multiple similar implementations that behaved in the same way (under unit tests).
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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pretty nice notetaking tool for MOOCs - integrated with Google Drive (nice!)
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Video Note--taking notes while viewing a video
Demystifying the MOOC - NYTimes.com - 37 views
MOOC-Ed | MOOC-Ed - 31 views
MOOCs: Top 10 Sites for Free Education With Elite Universities - 76 views
The Future of College? - The Atlantic - 29 views
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proprietary online platform developed to apply pedagogical practices that have been studied and vetted by one of the world’s foremost psychologists, a former Harvard dean named Stephen M. Kosslyn, who joined Minerva in 2012.
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inductive reasoning
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Minerva class extended no refuge for the timid, nor privilege for the garrulous. Within seconds, every student had to provide an answer, and Bonabeau displayed our choices so that we could be called upon to defend them.
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