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Coursera Jumps the Shark | HESA - 0 views

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  • Joss Richer on 13 Jun 13
     
    Coursera does an about-face, wants to compete with Blackboard instead.
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#mooc | Tumblr - 0 views

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  • Sue Hellman on 12 Jun 13
     
    A collection of blog articles with this tag
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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.
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Designing Sustainable Online Learning - 1 views

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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).
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University of Minnesota - 1 views

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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"
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Program | MOOC Research - 0 views

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    Conference on MOOCs in December 2013
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Information | MOOC Research - 0 views

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  • M A Astorino on 11 Jun 13
     
    Perhaps an opportunity for research money.
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Flat World Knowledge No Longer To Offer Free Texts, Claims It's More 'Fair' | Techdirt - 1 views

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  • Karen Keiller on 10 Jun 13
     
    Flat World Knowledge is no longer free.
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http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SU12-Students.pdf - 0 views

www.tomorrow.org/...SU12-Students.pdf disruptive technology
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  • M A Astorino on 10 Jun 13
     
    This is a K-12 study - started in 2003 with 3rd graders who are graduating this year.
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Outlook for online learning in 2013: Tony Bates - 1 views

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  • Sue Hellman on 14 Jun 13
     
    Predictions for the Canadian higher education landscape
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TEDx event Feb. 2012 - Disruptive Innovation in Higher Ed. - 2 views

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  • Joss Richer on 18 Jul 13
     
    Couldn't figure out where he was going with that. Or if he actually went anywhere.
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Blackboard Announces New MOOC Platform - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 1 views

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  • Joss Richer on 18 Jul 13
     
    Haha! BB is also being disrupted. I love it.
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Issues wi... - 1 views

stemxcon.com/...oocs-for-stem-revolutionary-or MOOC disruptive webinar
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  • Sue Hellman on 11 Jul 13
     
    Proposed (and likely to be accepted) session at the upcoming Global STEMx Education Conference (fully online)
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Higher ed leaders urge slow down of MOOC train | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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  • “It would be a tragedy if you substituted MOOCs in their current form for regular courses,”
    • Joss Richer
      Joss Richer on 16 Jul 13
       
      Maybe. But it could be a boon if you substituted MOOCs for existing *online* courses! The production values of many MOOCs far exceed those of run-of-the-mill online courses. We should strive to emulate MOOCs as far as these values are concerned.
  • ACE announced a group of university administrators who will be studying technology innovations, including MOOCs.
  • " 'me too'-ism, where innovation itself becomes the goal without a clear and compelling strategic purpose."
    • Joss Richer
      Joss Richer on 16 Jul 13
       
      This is a clear danger. One we should be wary of.
  • Joss Richer on 16 Jul 13
     
    I think we're on the right track as a group, spending time looking into how we carry out business at UNB re. distance/online ed first, then deciding whether we want to jump on the bandwagon.
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A University's Offer of Credit for a MOOC Gets No Takers - Technology - The Chronicle o... - 1 views

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  • The council has not yet advertised its services directly to MOOC students, she notes, adding that she believes prior-learning assessment still offers a "huge opportunity" for students to get college credit for free courses.
    • Joss Richer
      Joss Richer on 18 Jul 13
       
      Here's a reference to PLA for MOOC.
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Mobile Technology - Implementation - New Generation Technologies for Learning - 0 views

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  • Sue Hellman on 02 Jul 13
     
    M-learning & app development -- downloadable pdfs
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Canvas Network | online learning insights - 0 views

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  • Sue Hellman on 02 Jul 13
     
    Maria Andersen gives advice about how to design and teach a MOOC
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