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Sue Hellman

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

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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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  • Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the new thing. The creations of technology titans at prestigious universities
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • we have long known what to do and are now suffering from the abandonment of the good methods we once pioneered and practiced.
  • 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

3 things you need to know about disruptive innovation in higher ed [Educause 2014] | Ed... - 0 views

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  • Karen Keiller on 04 Mar 15
     
    "Now facing significant enrollment declines and budget crunches, higher ed would be wise to continue embracing and adapting disruptive forces for its own good."
Ken Reimer

Article by Steve Carson: The Massive Open Online Professor - 0 views

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shared by Ken Reimer on 05 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Ken Reimer on 05 Feb 13
     
    "We are approaching a tipping point where education and educators can use technology to reach almost every person on the planet inexpensively. However, the result may not look like the conventional university experience we recognize today".
  • Raymond Small on 07 Feb 13
     
    Ken, this could be a good thing, but difficult for traditional university educators to adjust to, perhaps more difficult for the educators than for the students. Just a thought.
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