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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.
sarahtarek

مشاهدة فيلم Angels of the Universe مترجم - 0 views

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مشاهدة فيلم Angels of the Universe مترجم

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Paul Beaufait

University Guide to Going Google - 18 views

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  • Paul Beaufait on 16 Feb 11
     
    "This site contains tools and guidelines to use as a starting point to getting your students, faculty, and alumni ready and excited about Google Apps" (University Edition, ¶1). There is a counter-part, K-12 Edition.
  • anonymous on 13 Sep 13
     
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Greg O'Connor

Online learning: pedagogy, technology and opening up higher education | Higher Education Network | guardian.co.uk - 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?"
Messi karol

Distance learners can now get upfront tuition fee loans - 0 views

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  • Messi karol on 04 Apr 13
     
    If you have abandoned or postponed your higher studies due to funding problems now the time has come to rethink. This is because many UK universities have decided to launch flexible funding schemes for the students.
Admission Times

5 Free Websites Every College Student Should Know - 9 views

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  • Admission Times on 16 Jul 15
     
    In this era of rapid changes, top educational websites for students plays a crucial role in providing the relevant information about the Universities in USA. A lot factors are to be assessed and shortlisted regarding the USA Universities, before getting into one. Many key factors like deadlines, scholarships, ranking, application procedure, academic qualification, tuition fees , and exams, plays a critical role on students' as well as on parents' mind.
Admission Times

Top 5 Educational We - 0 views

Top 5 Educational Websites in India Students are always seeking to get accurate information about admission in college and universities. A lot of factors are involved from shortlisting universiti...

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Zaid Ali Alsagoff

University Learning = OCW + OER = FREE! - 45 views

This post is about smashing all free University learning related OCW and OER resources and collections discovered into an all-in-one quick-to-access/find juicy compilation. URL: http://zaidlearn.b...

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Rudy Garns

The World Is Open - 0 views

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  • Rudy Garns on 25 Aug 09
     
    Technology is changing higher education in more ways than can be counted. Distance education has become common. Leading universities are putting course materials or even entire courses online -- free. The Obama plan for community colleges envisions free online courses that could be used nationwide. Curtis J. Bonk, a professor of instructional systems technology at Indiana University, surveys this landscape in The World Is Open: How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education (Jossey-Bass). - Inside Higher Ed
Tania Sheko

Pop-Up University | DMLcentral - 17 views

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  • anonymous on 13 Sep 13
     
    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
Julie Golden

Need Your Help! eLearning faculty - 2 views

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Clay Leben

Microsoft Research: Games for Learning Institute - 0 views

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  • Clay Leben on 21 Oct 08
     
    New university research funded by Microsoft.
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    Games for Learning Institute funds new research at universities.
Jennifer Maddrell

Indiana University Advanced Visualization Lab (AVL) - 0 views

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  • The AVL, part of University Information Technology Services, is a facility that includes some of the world’s most advanced virtual reality and visualization technologies to support research, education, and creative activities.
  • Jennifer Maddrell on 14 Jul 07
     
    The AVL, part of University Information Technology Services, is a facility that includes some of the world's most advanced virtual reality and visualization technologies to support research, education, and creative activities.
Jennifer Maddrell

Second Life Herald: Woodbury University Island Destroyed - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Maddrell on 08 Jul 07 - Cached
  • Sometime Saturday, Woodbury University’s Second Life island dropped off the map of the virtual world. Second Life players have grown accustomed to intermittent outages from their metaverse service provider, sometimes spinning fanciful stories about tsunami and seismic activity as part of in-world roleplay. A virtual catastrophe does not appear to have been the cause of Woodbury’s demise, however. It appears the complete disappearance of an entire virtual University was a disciplinary move on the part of Linden Lab - for Terms of Service (TOS) violations.
  • Jennifer Maddrell on 08 Jul 07
     
    Sometime Saturday, Woodbury University's Second Life island dropped off the map of the virtual world. Second Life players have grown accustomed to intermittent outages from their metaverse service provider, sometimes spinning fanciful stories about tsunami and seismic activity as part of in-world roleplay. A virtual catastrophe does not appear to have been the cause of Woodbury's demise, however. It appears the complete disappearance of an entire virtual University was a disciplinary move on the part of Linden Lab - for Terms of Service (TOS) violations.
Gaofeng Ruan

Universities with the Best Free Online Courses -- Education-Portal.com - 0 views

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  • Gaofeng Ruan on 15 May 09
     
    Students searching for Universities with the Best Free Online Courses found the articles, information, and resources on this page helpful.
globodyne technology

world colleges and universities - 0 views

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  • globodyne technology on 14 May 11
     
    World Yellow Pages for Higher studies.Find University, Institute, Colleges World wide & talk business.Free Listing www.kezkostudy.com
Messi karol

Business and Marketing Degree from ARU - 0 views

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  • Messi karol on 10 Dec 12
     
    The Anglia Ruskin University BA (Hons) Business (Marketing) or an aru degree can be studied as a full three-year honours degree or final year top-up for holders of a BTEC Level 5 HND in a relevant subject.
Melanie Cantwell

Human Rights Essay 101 - Good Introductions - 0 views

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  • Melanie Cantwell on 14 Jun 13
     
    Good introductions also enable the student to make a good first impression. When writing human rights essays,
Messi karol

How to nurture your start up - 0 views

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HND in Business Marketing

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  • Messi karol on 07 May 13
     
    To be able to successfully sustain a business one needs a proper business marketing strategy. Although it is not possible to know every bit of marketing strategy, a diploma or HND in Business marketing degree from a reputed university may suffice the objectives.
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