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Sasha Thackaberry

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

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  • 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.
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  • 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

Massive List of MOOC Resources, Lit and Literati | Studying Teaching and Learning | Sco... - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 03 Jul 12
     
    "We've been following the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) movement for a couple years now because we and our clients are all engaged in online learning at some level, be it totally online, flipped or hybrid, or just lecture capture for on-demand replay." In this post on Mediasite, Erica St. Angel has collected an impressive list of MOOC resources.
Greg O'Connor

Online learning: pedagogy, technology and opening up higher education | Higher Educatio... - 0 views

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  • Greg O'Connor on 27 Nov 12
     
    Higher education has always been fond of its acronyms and they don't get much more prolific than the current four letters doing the rounds. From the December 2011 launch of MITx Stateside to the University of Edinburgh's decision to join the Coursera platform, MOOCs (or Massive Open Online Courses) have barely been off the education news menu. Nor was the Observer alone in recently asking: "Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university?"
Nik Peachey

Q & A with Edorble CEO Gabe Baker | PeacheyPublications.com - 0 views

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  • Nik Peachey on 31 May 16
     
    Q & A with Edorble CEO Gabe Baker https://t.co/jtkB8K9hFQ #vr #elt #edtech #esl #k12 #3d #vle #mooc #edreform https://t.co/eghMHifOQb
Nik Peachey

Digital Classrooms MoveNote | PeacheyPublications.com - 4 views

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  • Nik Peachey on 07 Jun 16
     
    Digital Classrooms MoveNote https://t.co/A4g9Q0PCVq #edtech #edapp #edtools #flipclass #mooc #elt #esl #k12 #ell https://t.co/IBnpGzpcMw
  • anonymous on 12 Jun 16
     
    The sad part is that now Movenote is charging a fee. Teachers can no longer use this resource.
Laura Robertson

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  • Laura Robertson on 22 Jun 14
     
    Ed Tech Experts Share #BYOD Challenges and Triumphs http://t.co/p4BDrZ2Cow #edchat #edtech #elearning #mooc #commoncore #k12 #edu #sschat
rappscott

SpanishMOOC: A free, open Spanish course - 1 views

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  • rappscott on 18 Nov 12
     
    This is the first MOOC to use an adaptive engine as the center-point of all assessment and assignments. It also uses native content to teach Spanish. The course will be taught at a college level, and is open for anyone to enroll for free. Students will receive a letter grade based on their performance
Ted Curran

edX: Hostile Takeover or Helping Hand? - 0 views

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  • Ted Curran on 29 Nov 12
     
    A critical analysis of the MOOC phenomenon by an MIT faculty. 
Jennifer Maddrell

Open edX - 10 views

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Yuly Asencion

The pedagogical foundations of massive open online courses | Glance | First Monday - 24 views

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learnnovators

The Top Six Things Organizations Must Do to Enable Emergent Learning - 5 views

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  • learnnovators on 12 Jan 16
     
    What is common across the learning modes and methods mentioned? Social learning via an enterprise collaboration platform Mobile enabled learning accessible anytime, anywhere, on any device of the user's choice MOOCs which straddle the line between social learning and e-learning with learner communities While an organization can facilitate these, the onus lies with the users/learners.
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