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

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free online higher_education

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  • 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
  • josei09 on 21 Jul 11
     
    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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whither-U academic labor highered NFM CFHE future of education innovation disruption MOOCs education ELearning

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  • Vanessa Vaile on 24 Aug 11
     
    column by Lee Skellerup Bessette on problems of change in higher ed, educators vs accountability by analytics & design by algorithm
ray schroeder

Open Future of Higher Ed - 5 views

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edumooc online learning oer

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      ray schroeder on 09 Jun 11
       
      Interesting links on OERu which may "disrupt" higher ed
  • ray schroeder on 09 Jun 11
     
    Keynote from e-Cornucopia on OER in future of higher education
Keith Hamon

Online learning: Campus 2.0 : Nature News & Comment - 1 views

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M. Mitchell Waldrop MOOCs elearning

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  • Keith Hamon on 20 Mar 13
     
    Similar conversations have been taking place at major universities around the world, as dozens - 74, at the last count - rush to sign up. Science, engineering and technology courses have been in the vanguard of the movement, but offerings in management, humanities and the arts are growing in popularity (see 'MOOCs rising'). "In 25 years of observing higher education, I've never seen anything move this fast," says Mitchell Stevens, a sociologist at Stanford and one of the leaders of an ongoing, campus-wide discussion series known as Education's Digital Future.
Vanessa Vaile

Disrupting College - 6 views

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NFM highered academic labor innovation disruption education whither-U

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  • None of America’s higher education institutions have ever served a large percentage of our citizens—many from low-income, African-American, and Hispanic families.
  • Disruptive innovation is the process by which a sector that has previously served only a limited few because its products and services were complicated, expensive, and inaccessible, is transformed into one whose products and services are simple, affordable, and convenient and serves many no matter their wealth or expertise.
Susannah Skyer Gupta

Digital Storytelling Can Help Boost Student Learning | Faculty Focus - 2 views

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digital storytelling edumooc

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  • Susannah Skyer Gupta on 10 Jul 11
     
    brief piece: consider digital storytelling assignments. activates higher level thinking. links to other resources.
anonymous

What We do not know ( Infographic ) - 2 views

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    "When it comes to history, science, and global affairs. Americans are notoriously uninformed. Too many of us shrug off our inability to" do math" or speak a second language. And in effect, we assume that these capacities are somehow dispensable, however they are not. Higher education in America is experiencing a similar misassumption......."
Keith Hamon

Good MOOC's, Bad MOOC's - Brainstorm - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 4 views

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Marc Bousquet MOOCs

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  • Keith Hamon on 29 Jul 12
     
    Good MOOC's, in their view, foreground and sustain the social dimension of learning and active practices, i.e., knowledge production rather than knowledge consumption. To a limited extent, certain experiments in MOOC's that foreground social media participation over "content mastery" realize some of the ideals of Siemen and Downes.
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