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M A Astorino

Faculty of Education, University of Regina: Faculty Directory - 2 views

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  • M A Astorino on 04 Dec 12
     
    A possible speaker
Karen Keiller

State of the Profession: Much Ado about MOOCs | AAUP - 0 views

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  • Bev Bramble on 18 Mar 13
     
    No only is the rate of technological change increasing, so is the rate of sober second thought. :) A key sentence in this article is "The possibilities are myriad, but the success of MOOCs will depend on the degree to which faculty members are involved in the entire process, from development to testing and credentialing." This also applies to our own committee work in disruptive technologies, so that we don't fall into the typical trap of being support staff telling faculty members what to do, one of the reasons we are so unable to effect significant change in instructional practice at UNB (F at least).
Sue Hellman

Designing Sustainable Online Learning - 1 views

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sustainability online learning video

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  • Sue Hellman on 12 Jun 13
     
    Dr. Michael Power from Laval speaks to a group at Memorial about the need for a "major redirection" for online education that blends priorities of students (accessibility), faculty (quality), and admin. (cost effectiveness).
Karen Keiller

University of Minnesota - 1 views

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open textbooks

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  • Karen Keiller on 12 Jun 13
     
    "In an effort to reduce costs for students, the College of Education and Human Development has created this catalog of open textbooks to be reviewed by faculty members"
Sue Hellman

Predatory Learning: Reforming Education for the Wrong Reasons - 1 views

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higher education MOOC MOOCs higher ed disruption

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  • This isn’t a drill
  • you can see and feel what happens to a region when its past glories have badly faded and no new ones have emerged
  • Local people, connected to their communities, built successful schools
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  • Columnists such as the New York Times’s Thomas Friedman wax lyrical about the possibilities. Words such as “transformational,” “disruptive,” “radical,” “irreversible,” and “inevitable” appear
  • Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the new thing. The creations of technology titans at prestigious universities
  • Why all of these disruptions?
  • Faculty resistance to MOOCs is growing.
  • If MOOCs were offered as an experiment, as an approach to be tested and evaluated and refined, that would be one thing. But MOOCs are being sold, hustled really, as the best and brightest breakthrough since the printing press.
  • we have long known what to do and are now suffering from the abandonment of the good methods we once pioneered and practiced.
  • Colleges strapped for cash are already cutting staff, introducing MOOCs, and hoping for the best. Once the instructors have been removed and the budgets have been trimmed, it will be difficult to return to what we could call a more relational approach to education.
  • The once-stable financial foundation of the nation’s education system has collapsed.
  • Two thirds of the more than one million faculty members in the nation are adjuncts
  • American students now have nearly $900 billion in outstanding student loans,
  • the “Finnish miracle”
  • Teaching jobs are more sought-after than medicine, law, business, or high-tech careers.
  • The Finnish emphasis on the “supply side” of the education experience—the recruitment, training, and support of teachers—is striking.
  • In every successful educational culture, something bigger and deeper than market efficiency or ideological assertions from government motivates those involved.
  • Sue Hellman on 12 Jun 13
     
    Why are universities 'ripe for disruption'? Their mission has been undercut by (1) political demands for reform, (2) pressures to cut costs, (3) "smothering student debt loads", and (4) "mistaken priorities". The result has been the abandonment of good methods, disconnection from the community which gave it life, and the loss of central purpose. Enter the MOOC.
Karen Keiller

The MOOC on CBC | about MOOCs - 2 views

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  • M A Astorino on 03 Sep 13
     
    Really interesting perspective - faculty who want to reach the world. 15,000 students completed one of the MOOC's. That is pretty incredible.
Joss Richer

Master's Degree Is New Frontier of Study Online - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Joss Richer on 18 Sep 13
     
    Millions of dollars are poured in this project. As the article states, tuition could creep to normal levels once the initial money runs out. Still, it's an interesting experiment.
  • Joss Richer on 18 Sep 13
     
    What the article doesn't mention is this, lifted from another recent article in Chronicles: But that plan, too, could encounter institutional challenges. Benjamin Flowers, chair of the university's graduate curriculum committee, says he and his colleagues have "at no point been given, to review, any written proposal for any new graduate degree program." Officials seem to have circumvented the committee by casting the Udacity partnership as a "modification" of an existing computer-science master's program, says Mr. Flowers. He says his committee is not done with the Udacity proposal, and may raise the issue in the university's faculty senate when the body reconvenes this fall.
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