Skip to main content

Home/ EdTechTalk/ Group items tagged forms

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Sasha Thackaberry

MOOCs in the developing world - Pros and cons - University World News - 4 views

  • Massive open online courses have brought education from top universities to armchair scholars across the globe. Now some are wondering whether MOOCs, as they are called, could help elevate developing nations.
  • Advocates say the MOOC could bring quality instruction to poverty-stricken places where university attendance is little more than a fantasy. But critics worry that the largely Western-style courses could equate to a new form of imperialism and push out more effective forms of education.
  • the MOOC has blossomed worldwide – including in developing nations such as India and China.
  • ...17 more annotations...
  • Among edX’s students are 300,000 from India alone, said CEO Anant Agarwal – also a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT who taught the first, hugely successful edX MOOCs – at a 19 June forum on “MOOCs in the Developing World” held at the United Nations headquarters in New York City
  • The proponents-versus-sceptics conversation was moderated by Ben Wildavsky, director of higher education studies at the Rockefeller Institute, policy professor at the University at Albany of the State University of New York and author of the award-winning book The Great Brain Race: How global universities are reshaping the world.
  • Unlike colonialism, Agarwal told the forum, MOOCs could boost human rights in some countries. “The numbers are staggering,” he said. “I’m really hard-pressed to understand how someone would say this is United States hegemony.”
  • Among those sceptical of MOOCs’ effects on the developing world is Professor Philip Altbach, director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College and a globally recognised higher education analyst.
  • He called the online ventures “neo-colonialism of the willing” and noted that US academics have developed most of the online curricula available to students in poorer countries.
  • The pedagogical assumptions are mainly Western,” Altbach said during the panel discussion as Agarwal shook his head vehemently. “One has to ask whether this is a good thing for students in non-Western learning environments.”
  • Although online classes can be helpful in engineering or other technical fields, the humanities are another story. The benefit to developing nations, therefore, is limited, Katz said.
  • According the United Nations, 25% of children who enrol in primary school drop out before finishing. About 123 million youth aged 15 to 24 years lack basic reading and writing skills.
  • Poorer nations need high quality education, said Professor S Sitaraman, senior vice-president of India’s Amity University, but MOOC offerings should be marketed and vetted cautiously
  • “There are a lot of students [in India] who are hungry for knowledge but don’t have access to knowledge,” he said at the United Nations event. “We welcome new things, as long as it serves a purpose.”
  • The larger MOOCs platforms – edX, Coursera and Udacity, for example – have made inroads in nearly every country and are experimenting with ways to help students in places without advanced infrastructure or technology.
  • “It doesn’t replace other kinds of education,” she said during the forum. “We’re clearly filling some need here. I think it adds value and doesn’t replace.”
  • At their best, MOOCs complement existing educational institutions around the world, said Barbara Kahn, a marketing professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business who teaches classes on Coursera.
  • Although MOOCs have experimented with a variety of techniques to engage students, many lean on old, ineffective teaching methods, Katz argued. In order to appeal to and help students in other countries, he said, educators will have to do better. “MOOCs embody the newest technology – the internet – and the oldest – the lecture,” he said. “That doesn’t mean you get the best of both. I gave up lecturing as a teaching method in the late 1960s.”
  • MOOCs “are being adopted and not adapted”, added Altbach.
  • Agarwal cautioned against worrying too much about those issues. He noted that a 10% completion rate in a course with more than 100,000 students means 10,000 students finished the class.
  • It is not surprising, Agarwal said, that educators have few answers for the more serious questions about bringing MOOCs to needy people worldwide. “MOOCs are two years old,” he said. “We’ve done traditional education for 500 years and we still haven’t figured it out.
anonymous

TypeScript Type Inference - javatpoint - 0 views

  •  
    The TypeScript compiler infers the type information when there is no explicit information available in the form of type annotations.
Jaxon Smith

How to memorise an essay for later recitation to an audience? - 0 views

  •  
    This article on how to memorise an essay majorly focuses on providing the reader with clarity over the tips to get the format for drafting an essay, tips on how to memorise an essay, Short cut to recite any form of data no matter how bulky it is.
Nik Peachey

Tools and alternatives for creating presentations - 16 views

  •  
    Most computers come with some form of preloaded software that includes a package for creating presentations. There are however a range of alternatives and online apps available that have made an attempt to change, update or enhance the presentation format. As well as the standard tools I've included a range of alternatives here for you to explore.
Floyd Sutton

Types of Content Theft - 2 views

  •  
    BT newbies can ought to actively value more highly to amendment the settings. The company is additionally introducing new BT Parental Controls that transcend the remit of its current free privacy controls, that solely specialize in desktops and laptops. The new controls can cowl all internet-connected devices within the home, together with tablets, game consoles, and smartphones. New customers, says BT in a very promulgation, "[will] ought to build a alternative on whether or not or to not activate the parental controls once putting in place their web affiliation for the primary time," adding that "the possibility of getting the controls enforced is pre-selected." you will either ought to make sure that you are pleased with the pre-selected protection level, or actively value more highly to amendment the settings, that BT is keen to cue you would possibly expose you to "content doubtless unsuitable for kids." "BT takes the difficulty of on-line kid protection extraordinarily seriously, and that we area unit very happy to be able to launch the whole-home filter to assist folks keep their families safe on-line. It adds to the numerous tools we have a tendency to already build accessible for gratis to our customers. We've been targeted on the difficulty of on-line safety since we have a tendency to developed the globe's 1st Cleanfeed filter to dam ill-usage pictures and created the technology accessible liberated to different ISPs across the world a decade past," says Pete Oliver, MD of client industrial selling and digital at BT.
  • ...2 more comments...
  •  
    Coleaks SMS Bomber New 2013: New 2013.... New
  •  
    PRO FACEBOOK HACKS Hello My Friends! If you are currently on this site it is because you are looking for a way to hack the password of a facebook account. You've probably lost a lot of time looking at other sites for the best way to hack a facebook account, but unfortunately, it did not really help you. To save you even more time, all you can find on other sites as solutions are phishing, keyloggers, social engineering and hacking of the email address of facebook account (if known), these methods work, but not for everyone and are very difficult to implement. The common reasons that make you want to hack a facebook are the following: Cheating partner suspicion Recovery of a lost/hacked password Monitoring of children activity Revenge on someone Simple curiosity Well, let us congratulate you because you just found the right place! Our site dosen't put you to download thousand of tools for a lot of money. Our website is an ON-LINE tool and you have just to enter the victim FB URL, and it will return you the victim password. So... What we waiting for...?
  •  
    As Gen. Alexander prepares to retire, Obama administration seeks one replacement. The White House has some big positions to fill in the Defense Department and at the National Security Agency (NSA) this coming spring. But as The Washington Post reports, they'll be looking for just a single person to fill them all. Since the creation of the US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), the Department of Defense's joint command in charge of operating and defending the military's network, one man has been at the helm: US Army General Keith Alexander. Alexander is also Director of the National Security Agency and the Chief of Central Security Service. Those combined roles have put responsibility for a huge swath of the US military's "network warfare" under a single man's purview-a concentration of power that has caused a great deal of concern. In fact, the Director of the Office of National Intelligence and the panel appointed by President Obama to review the operations of the NSA have both recommended that the NSA and the DOD's Cyber Command be put under separate leadership. The review panel, appointed in the wake of leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, submitted a draft recommendation to President Barack Obama recommending that a civilian should be appointed head of the NSA, while Cyber Command should remain under military leadership. But the Obama administration has ignored that advice, announcing that it will continue the arrangement that let Alexander command most of the nation's military and civilian offensive and defensive cyber capabilities. "Following an interagency review," White House spokeswoman Caitlyn Hayden wrote in an email to the Post, "the administration has decided that keeping the positions of NSA Director and Cyber Command Commander together as one, dual-hatted position is the most effective approach to accomplish both agencies' missions." The NSA has been under a military commander since its inception. But General Alexander is the highest-ranking mi
  •  
    Types of Content Theft CAMCORDER THEFT Approximately ninety percent of newly released movies that are pirated can be traced to thieves who use a digital recording device in a movie theater to literally steal the image and/or sound off the screen. Camcorder theft is one of the biggest problems facing the film industry. All it takes is one camcorder copy to trigger the mass reproduction and distribution of millions of illegal Internet downloads and bootlegs in global street markets just hours after a film's release and well before it becomes available for legal rental or purchase from legitimate suppliers. Studios and theater owners have significantly increased security and surveillance in theaters all over the world to thwart would-be camcorders. Since 2003, the major motion picture studios have employed technology such as watermarking films, which enables film companies to discern the source of a stolen film through forensic analysis and trace it back to the very theater in which it was recorded. PEER-TO-PEER (P2P) THEFT A peer-to-peer (P2P) network is a system that enables Internet users through the exchange of digital files among individual computers or "peers" to (1) make files (including movies and music) stored on their computer available for copying by other users; (2) search for files stored on other users' computers; and (3) transfer exact copies of files from one computer to another. P2P technology itself is not illegal and may be useful for many legal purposes, but people often use the technology to illegally exchange copyrighted material on the Internet. While people may believe their files are being exchanged among only a few "friends," these files can be accessed by millions of people around the world who are part of the same P2P network. If you download movies using illegal peer-to-peer sites, you are often also distributing illegal content, as the default setting of most P2P networks ensures that individuals downloading files from the network ar
roybhatty

TOEFL Exam * 6 Things To Know Before Taking the Test (Popular) - 0 views

  •  
    The full form of 'TOEFL' is - 'Test of English as a Foreign Language', and it is a test conducted by the Educational Testing Service (ETS). That's right, the same people that conduct the GRE every year.A TOEFL score is something that you need for applying to any college in the U.S. or in Canada, and it is something that is required for all non-Native English speakers who wish to apply for an undergraduate or postgraduate course. But here's the kicker: You may need to take the TOEFL exam in order to get a score to apply for some kinds of jobs as well. There are many purposes for taking the TOEFL exam, but the primary one is usually for an academic course at an English speaking country. There are universities and businesses in other English speaking countries, like the U.K or Australia, and so on who do accept a TOEFL score for various other purposes.
eyssant

Data Structure Circular Singly Linked List - AlphaCodingSkills - 0 views

  •  
    A circular singly linked list is a linear data structure, in which the elements are stored in the form of a node. Each node contains two sub-elements. A data part that stores the value of the element and the next part that stores the pointer to the next node.
eyssant

Linked List Operations - Traverse, Insert and Delete - 0 views

  •  
    A linked list is a linear data structure, in which the elements are stored in the form of a node. Each node contains two sub-elements. A data part that stores the value of the element and next part that stores the pointer to the next node.
eyssant

Data Structure Linked List - AlphaCodingSkills - 0 views

  •  
    A linked list is a linear data structure, in which the elements are stored in the form of a node. Each node contains two sub-elements. A data part that stores the value of the element and next part that stores the pointer to the next node.
dimei1

dining table manufacturer - 0 views

  •  
    The use of log is the main feature of Nordic style wood furniture all the time. Plywood dining tables are used everywhere in the buildings. The biggest advantage of bentwood dining table is that there is no formaldehyde problem, more environmentally friendly and closer to the natural taste. The bent wood dining table of Nordic style, adhering to the simplicity and nature of the Nordic style, without redundant carving and decoration, owns just simple log material. Modern plywood dining tables emphasize the function of comfort, and can perfectly qgree with the human living habits and human body. Nordic Characteristics of Bentwood Dining Table Firstly, the Nordic style is different from the Art Decoration style, streamlined style and other formalism in the pursuit of fashion and commercial value. The Nordic style is simple and practical, reflecting respect for tradition, appreciation of natural materials, restraint in form and decoration, and striving for unity in form and function.
kimtigo

ssd m2 sata 2242 - 0 views

  •  
    Kimtigo KT-B900 M.2 2242 SATA SSD is a compact and high-performance storage solution designed for modern computing devices. With its M.2 2242 form factor, this SSD offers a great balance between space-saving design and reliable storage performance. Equipped with the SATA III interface, it delivers fast data transfer rates and quick system boot-up times. Kimtigo KT-B900 M.2 2242 SATA SSD is an ideal choice for upgrading laptops and small form factor PCs, providing users with enhanced storage capacity and improved overall system responsiveness.
zahid farid

sex and win dating - 0 views

  •  
    Single men come in three basic forms: there are ones who watch things happens, then there are others who make things happen, and then there are those that wondered what happened. You're probably familiar with that old saying, but I'm here to advise you that it's 100% true. Meeting women, dating them, and ultimately getting into a long-term relationship is within your control.
Kristy Houston

Mystery particle discovered in new technology news - 1 views

The antimatter has been very popular in the field of popular science, sci fi movies, and in Dan Brown's Angels and Demons. Star Trek episodes, for one, has displayed smart ideas about the possibili...

new technology emerging future

started by Kristy Houston on 04 May 12 no follow-up yet
Gerald Carey

Zittrain in Technology Review: The personal computer is dead - 0 views

  • The personal computer is deadby Jonathan ZitttrainThe PC is dead. Rising numbers of mobile, lightweight, cloud-centric devices don't merely represent a change in form factor. Rather, we're seeing an unprecedented shift of power from end users and software developers on the one hand, to operating system vendors on the other—and even those who keep their PCs are being swept along. This is a little for the better, and much for the worse.
  •  
    Very interesting essay on the implications of vendor-approved software - who decides what is appropriate and how much easier is it going to be for governments and lobby groups to censor critical applications.
Timeless Learntech

Equipped for Online Learning? - 0 views

  •  
    Online Learning Shapes the Academic World Developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have impacted all sectors of society- mainly the corporate organisations as well as the education sector. In higher education, application of ICTs in form of e-learning is already changing teaching and learning processes.
Melissa Smith

Tip 110 - Auto Generate QR Codes in Google Spreadsheet! - 35 views

  •  
    QR codes in Spreadsheets
  •  
    This website is the best news site, all the information is here and always on the update. We accept criticism and suggestions. Happy along with you here. I really love you guys. :-) www.killdo.de.gg
Erin Bothamley

XO IP Flex Service - A VoIP Solution for any Size of Business - 0 views

  •  
    Get XO IP Flex Service that is most extensively deployed business VoIP service includes: VPN, Dedicated Internet Access as well as long distance calling services. This IP Flex Service simplifies your business communication with highest voice quality and flexibility to choose wide range of internet speed. Just fill the simple contact form on connecthere.com and we will contact you to discuss your requirements.
« First ‹ Previous 61 - 80 of 116 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page