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A College Education for All, Free and Online - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Edu... - 5 views

  • University of the People, a tuition-free online institution that enrolled its first class of students in 2009.
  • UoPeople students pay an application fee of between $10 and $50 and must have a high-school diploma and be proficient in English. There are also small fees for grading final exams. Otherwise, it's free.
  • UoPeople relies heavily on peer-to-peer learning that takes place within a highly structured curriculum developed in part by volunteers
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  • Rather than deploy the most sophisticated and expensive technology, UoPeople keeps it simple—everything happens asynchronously, in text only. As long as students can connect their laptops or mobile devices to a telecommunications network, somewhere, they can study and learn. For most of humanity, this is the only viable way to get access to higher education. When the university polled students about why they had enrolled, the top answer was, "What other choice do I have?"
  • The scale of the global population lacking access to higher education is gargantuan—Reshef puts it at 100 million people worldwide. It's outlandish to think that they'll get it through the construction of American-style colleges and universities—the most expensive model of higher education known to humankind, and getting more so every year. Low-cost, online higher-education tools are the future for most people
  • Undergraduates at the University of California at Berkeley can minor in global poverty, but Berkeley isn't using newly available online-learning tools to actually reduce global poverty by helping impoverished students earn college degrees.
  • Most elite American colleges are content to spend their vast resources on gilding their palaces of exclusivity. They worry that extending their reach might dilute their brand. Perhaps it might. Righteousness is easy; generosity is hard
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    Describes University of the People, tuition-free, ony-text-based college degrees (just two as of now) that uses widely available OERs to provide higher education to vast numbers of students that have no access to traditional higher education
Vanessa Vaile

Blog U.: Reforming Higher Education: To What End? - University of Venus - Inside Higher Ed - 4 views

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    column by Lee Skellerup Bessette on problems of change in higher ed, educators vs accountability by analytics & design by algorithm
anonymous

The Plagiarism Checker in Education - 4 views

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    This is one of the important web2.0 tools i would highly recommend for educators . The Plagiarism Checker detects the plagiarized text or chunks of a text in your students assignments , essays, articles .........
josei09

The challenges to connectivist learning on open online networks: Learning experiences d... - 8 views

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  • Self-directed learning on open online networks is now a possibility as communication and resources can be combined to create learning environments. But is it really?
  • It is envisaged that learning is enhanced by four major types of activity:1) aggregation, access to and collection of a wide variety of resources to read, watch, or play; 2) relation, after reading, watching, or listening to some content, the learner might reflect and relate it to what he or she already knows or to earlier experiences; 3) creation, after this reflection and sense-making process, learners might create something of their own (i.e., a blog post, an account with a social bookmarking site, a new entry in a Moodle discussion) using any service on the Internet, such as Flickr, Second Life, Yahoo Groups, Facebook, YouTube, iGoogle, NetVibes, etc.; 4) sharing, learners might share their work with others on the network. This participation in activities is seen to be vital to learning.
  • Presence.
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  • Self-directed learning. A connectivist learner has to be fairly autonomous to be able to learn independently, away from educational institutions, and to be engaged in aggregating, relating, creating, and sharing activities.
  • Critical literacies
  • A major concern is that because people need to aggregate information and resources autonomously, either by (RSS) feeds or through the use of human filters, they require a high level of critical analysis skills to be able to do so effectively.
  • What type of structure might then aid learners in overcoming the aforementioned challenges? What can be done to engage learners in critical learning on an open network? Carroll, Kop, and Woodward (2008) see as the crux to engaging learners in an online environment the creation of a place where people feel comfortable, trusted, and valued. The task would be to move toward a space that aggregates content and to imagine it as a community, a place where dialogue happens, where people feel comfortable and where interactions and content can be easily accessed and engaged with, a place where the personal meets the social with the specific purpose of learning. The National Research Council of Canada’s Institute for Information Technology is currently engaged in the research and development of such a structure, a PLE named Plearn,
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    Requirements of a MOOC for learners and a little for a platform that can support learners. Experiences with two previous MOOCs, both for teachers. (Needed: research on MOOCs for non-educational topics)
anonymous

Voki : a fun and free animated avatar tool for educators - 0 views

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    Voki is an animation website . It is “ a free service that allows you to create personalized speaking avatars and use them on your blog, profiles and in email messages”. This web2.0 tool is very important in education as It enables teachers and students to express themselves on the web in their own voice , using a talking character.
josei09

Main Page - EduTech Wiki - 5 views

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    Wiki about educational tech. Nice articles
John Graves

state-of-education.jpg (800×5312) - 2 views

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    Hand drawn collection of statistics relating to US High School dropout rates, jobs, teacher salaries (vs lawyers), international comparisons.
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