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"Higher education institutions face a number of opportunities and challenges as the result of the digital revolution. The institutions perform a number of scholarship functions which can be affected by new technologies, and the desire is to retain these functions where appropriate, whilst the form they take may change. Much of the reaction to technological change comes from those with a vested interest in either wholesale change or maintaining the status quo. "

By Cathy Davidson in HASTAC

The academic conversation on MOOCs is starting to polarise in exactly the talking-past-one-another way that so many complex conversations evolve: with very smart points on either side, but not a lot of recognition that the validity of certain key points on one side does not undermine the validity of certain key points on the other. I regret this flattening of online learning into a simple binary of 'politically and financially motivated greed' on the one hand and 'an opportunity to find out more about learning' on the other. Some of both in different situations can be true.

"Having started a half dozen MOOC's in the recent months, I have found most of them tend to share a common trait. Many MOOC's currently represent a sort of parody of higher education's worst practices, its most spectacular delusions about itself. "

Great visualization of #etmooc

Good discussion of learning design in a MOOC.

Principles of Digital Professionalism Framework. Created for med students, but adaptable for other professional students, including education majors, etc.

We used Project Look Sharp resources to develop our K-8 media literacy/digital literacy/digital citzenship curriculum.

This site shows the many benefits of multicultural education and how this is essential for our culture and society. Microcultures are discussed as well as a conceptual framework of a global perspective on multicultural education. One of major themes in this site is the need for curriculum updates to better educate today's and future students. Goals such as increasing awareness, combating prejudices, and instilling core values are elaborated upon in great detail as well.

"Coding as a Liberal Art"

Presentation notes from @bonstewart

The honeymoon with MOOCs is over. The reality check has finally arrived which was inevitable. MOOCs will not solve all the woes of higher education. It is unfortunate it had to be a class on how to design an online course; it was the Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application [FOE] offered through Coursera that brought things to a screeching halt. But this experience can provide an opportunity for institutions to re-focus-identify the role and purpose of MOOCs and move forward with a thoughtful, purposeful strategy.

20 tips and resources for using learning technology in higher education