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Andrew Barras

The Wild World of Massively Open Online Courses « Unlimited Magazine - 0 views

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  • In a traditional university setting, a student pays to register for a course. The student shows up. A professor hands out an outline, assigns readings, stands at the front and lectures. Students take notes and ask questions. Then there is a test or an essay.
  • But with advancing online tools innovative educators are examining new ways to break out of this one-to-many model of education, through a concept called massively open online courses. The idea is to use open-source learning tools to make courses transparent and open to all, harnessing the knowledge of anyone who is interested in a topic.
  • George Siemens, along with colleague Stephen Downes, tried out the open course concept in fall 2008 through the University of Manitoba in a course called Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, or CCK08 for short. The course would allow 25 students to register, pay and receive credit for the course. All of the course content, including discussion boards, course readings, podcasts and any other teaching materials, was open to anyone who had an internet connection and created a user profile.
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  • Course facilitators, Siemens and Downes, gave learners control over how they learned.
  • The concept was enough to lure in D’Arcy Norman
  • He was one of the 2,300 students who signed up for a free account that would allow him to access class documents, receive emails from the facilitators and participate in online class discussions.
  • Norman was one of the more passive participants, while others participated fully, doing all the reading and the assignments, without receiving recognized credit for their work. The instructors only marked papers and the final project from for-credit students, but others were free to post papers on the course website for other students to view and comment on.
  • “At the beginning, we had quite a number of students feeling quite overwhelmed because you would get 200 or 300 posts going into a discussion forum per day and that’s just about impossible to follow,” Siemens says.
  • “You have people in there who were really interested, but they were afraid to explore the technologies that were being used and they got lost,” Lane says.
  • Even if students in massively open online courses master the technology and overcome their virtual stage fright, a third problem remains: how to recognize the value of a learning experience that isn’t for credit.
  • “If you’re in a business and you’re a young professional and you want to take an open class, how do you get your superiors to respect that, and say ‘Wow, that’s really good professional development. We should put that in your personnel file,’” Lane questions. “If it’s open and everyone can drop in and drop out, it’s just not seen in the same way.”
  • Wend Drexler, a professor and grant administrator at the University of Florida who also took Siemen’s class as a for-credit student, says that as more professors are posting their content online, figuring out how to recognize non-credit learning will continue to be an issue.
  • “You could really piece together a good undergraduate education based on what’s available out there, but how do you prove to an employer that you have done that?” Drexler questions. “I don’t know, but it’s something that everyone is trying to work through.”
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Andrew Barras

News: The Thinking LMS - Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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shared by Andrew Barras on 18 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • What can colleges learn from Facebook?
  • Where Facebook has shown unique value is as a data-gathering tool. Never has a website been able to learn so much about its users. And that is where higher education should be taking notes, said Angie McQuaig, director of data innovation at the University of Phoenix, at the 2010 Educause conference on Friday.
  • If Facebook can use analytics to revolutionize advertising in the Web era, McQuaig suggested, colleges can use the same principles to revolutionize online learning.
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  • The trick, she said, is individualization.
  • The most successful commercial websites are already moving in this direction, and higher education — which itself is growing increasingly Web-based — needs to catch up, McQuaig said. “What we really need to do now is deeply understand our learners,” she said.
  • This is where the University of Phoenix is headed with its online learning platform. In an effort ambitiously dubbed the "Learning Genome Project,” the for-profit powerhouse says it is building a new learning interface that gets to know each of its 400,000 students personally and adapts to accommodate the idiosyncrasies of their “learning DNA.”
  • “[Each student] comes to us with a set of learning modality preferences,” McQuaig said. The online learning platform Phoenix wants to build, she said, “reject[s] the one-size-fits-all model of presenting content online.” In the age of online education and the personal Web, the standardized curriculum is marked for extinction, McQuaig said; data analytics are going to kill it.
  • Phoenix is certainly not the only institution focusing on how data logged by learning management systems can be used to improve learning.
  • envoys from the South Orange Community College District had unveiled a project called Sherpa, which uses information about students to recommend courses and services. McQuaig said Phoenix has been in conversations with a number of universities that are working toward similar learner-centered online platforms.
  • In any case, she said, it will be expensive to make.
  • But that is where online education, and the Internet as a whole, is headed, McQuaig said.
  • Andrew Barras on 18 Oct 10
     
    Very cool article. Shows how personalization will arise in Higher Ed
chris deason

ViVu: Video Conferencing, Webcasts, eLearning, Online Events - 1 views

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    ViVu: Video Conferencing, Webcasts, eLearning, Online EventsViVu: Video Conferencing, Webcasts, eLearning, Online Events
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Udemy - Academy of You | Find and Create Online Courses - Teach and Learn Online - 0 views

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    Build your own Online Courses
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    "Take and build online courses on any subject "
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Amazon.com: Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displa... - 0 views

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    Empowering Online Learning: 100+ Activities for Reading, Reflecting, Displaying, and Doing
Tom Lucas

Online converter - convert video, images, audio and documents for free - 0 views

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    "This free online file converter lets you convert media easy and fast from one format to another."
chris deason

Online Math Programs | Math Practice & Learning - 0 views

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    Online Math Programs | Math Practice & Learning
Tom Lucas

Collaborize - Online Collaboration, Real-Time Results. - 0 views

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    Collaborize - Online Collaboration, Real-Time Results
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    "Collaborize is an online decision-making platform that helps your group identify, refine and respond to important questions, topics and ideas by adding structure to your conversations that drive to results and outcomes."
chris deason

FETC Virtual Event Home -- FETC Events - 0 views

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    "100% Online Conference for Education Technology Register today for the FETC Virtual Conference: the extraordinary online educational event that delivers valuable presentations for educators and unlimited networking opportunities straight to your desktop-free of charge!"
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Grooveshark - Listen to Free Music Online - Internet Radio - Free MP3 Streaming - 0 views

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    Grooveshark - Listen to Free Music Online - Internet Radio - Free MP3 Streaming
Andrew Barras

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  • In this post I wish to share with you some of the top sites I have found to be useful on the internet that promote true PBL.
  • Edutopia PBL - Edutopia is a site containing outstanding educational content for teachers. It contains an area devoted to Project Based Learning.
  • PBL-Online Is a one stop solution for Project Based Learning! You'll find all the resources you ne​ed to design and manage high quality projects for middle and high school students.
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  • BIE Institite For PBL - The main Buck Institute of On-line Resource Site is a must visit for anyone serious about PBL. There is some good information on the professional development .
  • PBL: Exemplary Projects - A wonderful site for those wanting practical ideas to infuse PBL into the curriculum. This is the creation of a group of experienced teachers, educators, and researchers whom you may contact as resources.
  • 4Teachers.org PBL - This site has a contains some useful information on supplying sound reasoning for PBL in school. Especially interesting are articles on Building Motivation and Using Multiple Intellegences. One very useful resource in this site is the PBL Project Check List Section.
  • Houghton Mifflin Project Based Learning Space - This site from publisher Houghton Mifflin Contains contains some good resources for investigating PBL and was developed by the Wisconson Center For Education Research. Included is a page on Background Knowledge an Theory.
  • Intel® Teach Elements: Project-Based Approaches - If you are looking for free, just-in-time professional development that you can experience now, anytime, or anywhere, this may be your answer. Intel promises that this new series will provide high interest, visually compelling short courses that facilitate deep exploration of 21st century learning concepts using and PBL.
  • New Tech Network - I have personally visited the New Tech Schools in both Napa and Sacramento California. I was impresssed with more then the technology.
  • High Tech High School - These high schools also operate using a project based learning model centered around 21st century skills.
  • GlobalSchoolhouse.net - Great site to begin PBL using the web while cooperating with other schools.   Harness the ability to use the web as a tool for interaction, collaboration, distance education, cultural understanding and cooperative research -- with peers around the globe.
  • Andrew Barras on 17 Sep 10
     
    Via Tim Gregory! Cool list of PBL sites.
  • chris deason on 20 Sep 10
     
    Excellent. This is a great resource. Exploring now.
chris deason

Engrade - Free Online Gradebook - 0 views

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    Engrade - Free Online Gradebook
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iNACOL - International Association for K-12 Online Learning - 0 views

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    iNACOL - International Association for K-12 Online Learning
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Sumo Paint | Online Image Editor - 0 views

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Host Your Own Webinars | Group Collaboration| Online Groups - 0 views

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Noteflight - Online Music Notation Software - 0 views

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    Noteflight - Online Music Notation Software
Tom Lucas

Free video lectures, Free Online Courses, Video Lessons, Lecture Videos, Tutorials, fre... - 0 views

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    "740+ Online Courses, 18000+ Videos from Top 20+ Universities on 35+ Categories"
chris deason

Survey Software, Enterprise Feedback Management, Voice of the Customer | Build Online S... - 0 views

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    survey Software, Enterprise Feedback Management, Voice of the Customer | Build Online Surveys with Qualtrics Survey Software
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Zbang - One Place to Connect, Share & Collaborate with Everyone - 0 views

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    "Zbang integrates all your online activity into a single place, allowing you to seamlessly work across different platforms, without having to flip from one site to the other. By using Zbang's interface, you can share your digital content with your friends via social media venues and collaborate with colleagues. Join the growing Zbang community to enjoy a simple, intuitive and effortless experience. "
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HippoCampus: Online Content In and Out of Class | MindShift - 0 views

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    "Technology is revolutionizing the world of education - replacing familiar classroom tools and changing the way we learn. MindShift will explore the future of learning in all its dimensions - covering cultural and technology trends, groundbreaking research, education policy and more. The site is curated by Tina Barseghian, a former editor of Edutopia and the mother of a grade-schooler."
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