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Keith Hamon

MOOCs Fail Students With Dark Age Methods - 3 views

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MOOCs connectivism

shared by Keith Hamon on 22 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Keith Hamon on 22 Jul 12
     
    The shock is that the methods used by these hugely successful courses are little changed from the dark ages. If you think I'm being a critical outsider, then you might like to know that one of the leading lights in the movement, Peter Norvig, agrees with me. He even makes a joke in his recent Ted Talk  that lectures in MOOCs are just like the 16th century monastic lecture theaters complete with the guy at the back sleeping! khamon- probably an accurate assessment of non-connectivist MOOCs, the kind I do not attend.
Susannah Skyer Gupta

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

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digital storytelling edumooc

shared by Susannah Skyer Gupta on 10 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • Susannah Skyer Gupta on 10 Jul 11
     
    brief piece: consider digital storytelling assignments. activates higher level thinking. links to other resources.
josei09

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

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free online higher_education

shared by josei09 on 21 Jul 11 - No Cached
  • 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
Debra Torrison

Frequently Questioned Answers: Consolidation of info streams and a MOOC - 5 views

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shared by Debra Torrison on 30 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • -how many streams of information can I actually follow, from a practical standpoint.
  • For eduMOOC, there is the Google Sites homepage, the Google Group, a Twitter hashtag, a Twitter list, an etherpad, several wikis, Diigo and Delicious tagging, and participants' own blogs (like this one) using tags like #edumooc.
  • What I'm trying to do is consolidate my streams. This does run the danger of turning the steam into a flood, which is what happened to my RSS reading originally
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  • How in the world do you work with a network of over 2000 people? The answer, of course, is that you don't; you work with only a portion of the network. How do you choose? I think the answer ends up being a combination of research and serendipity (like many things in life).
Mike Nall

Wikit - 5 views

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wikis mapping mindmap wiki visualization mindmapping mindmaps mind-mapping maps it4all a1ed ia wikit conceptmapping information guide thinking ideas

shared by Mike Nall on 22 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Mike Nall on 22 Oct 11
     
    very comprehensive
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