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Kev Harland

NetworkEDGE: The Future of Education July 2014 - 2 views

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PLE higher education networked learning

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  • Kev Harland on 31 Jul 14
     
    In this video Downes shares his utopian anti-institutional view of education. He pleads for "learning beyond institutions", towards personal learning in a networked world.  Move towards anarchic learning, based on no models, no systems, no traditional ideals. Move beyond institutions and towards self-organised networks of learners. "Content is the McGuffin it's the thing that gets us talking with each other" "its the connections between people and neurones that is the actual learning"
Kev Harland

Is Mobile Learning Relevant in Developing Countries? - 1 views

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  • foreign intervention is less desirable than autonomous growth and innovation
  • M-Pesa (“mobile money” in Swahili) is a Kenyan mobile phone service which allows people to pay or transfer money to any other mobile phone user. It came about to meet the needs of a population poorly served by traditional banking services, before spreading throughout Africa, and is now among the most advanced mobile payment systems in the world. It’s different from your typical money transfer, because it doesn’t rely on bank accounts
  • Today, over 50% of adult Kenyans use the service to transfer money and pay for bills and even shopping
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  • At first, the internet made the world more global; now, the internet itself is becoming more local. The various fora and message boards serve as increasingly rich archives of dialogues – where a problem has been solved once, that solution can be sought by anyone
  • Anyone with access to Google can leverage the collective wisdom of the masses
  • he advent of cloud computing and crowd-sourcing means that individuals can now create and distribute their own educational content with little to no overhead
  • Udemy is one such platform, enabling educational content to be sourced from individuals rather than publishing houses (though a number of publishers do use the platform). Anyone can upload a lesson, and anyone can take a lesson
  • These platforms, which empower the individual, are significant because they enable highly local, highly specific learning content
  • While publishing houses need to generalise their content and target the largest audience, an individual is under no such imperative.
  • it becomes more and more feasible for anyone, anywhere to share their knowledge
  • it’s not poorer nations that benefit from the benevolence of richer ones – rather, the transaction becomes more individual
  • One person, anywhere, can learn, and can teach, another person. That person can be their neighbour or someone on the other side of the planet. And if the concept of reverse innovation shows anything, it’s that the East can teach the West a thing or two.
Kev Harland

What is the Meaning of The Medium is the Message? - 0 views

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  • Similarly, the message of a newscast are not the news stories themselves, but a change in the public attitude towards crime, or the creation of a climate of fear.
  • a medium is "any extension of ourselves." Classically, he suggests that a hammer extends our arm and that the wheel extends our legs and feet.
  • Similarly, the medium of language extends our thoughts from within our mind out to others
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  • growing medium, like the fertile potting soil into which a seed is planted, or the agar in a Petri dish
  • We can know the nature and characteristics of anything we conceive or create (medium) by virtue of the changes - often unnoticed and non-obvious changes - that they effect (message.)
Kev Harland

Of mind and media: EBSCOhost - 1 views

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forms of representation H800

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  • different forms of representation have what philosophers call different fields of reference.
  • even when different symbolic forms of representation address the same field of reference, conveying (what appears to be) the same information
  • strongly colored by the knowledge structures ("schemata") we already possess
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  • much may depend on the richness and organization of the knowledge schemata one brings to bear on the incoming information
  • affect meanings is a matter of balance between them and the richness of one's schemata
  • basic symbolic forms of representation--language, number, spatial relations, movement, pitch
  • the convergence of findings supports the conclusion that different symbolic forms of representation require different symbolic capacities
  • The seven intelligences he describes (linguistic, musical, logical/mathematical, spatial, bodily/kinesthetic, intrapersonal, and interpersonal)
  • different symbolic forms of representation are processed by different sets of mental skills and capacities
  • hildren do not expend much mental effort on a televised story, even when it is quite poetic and requires effort
  • Thus they learn far less from it than from an equivalent story in print.
  • Where or when television is perceived as a serious medium
  • They also seem to be gradually changing the meaning of "knowledge," from something that is possessed to something to which we have access
johannetta

Will a degree made up of Moocs ever be worth the paper it's written on? | Higher Educat... - 1 views

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mooc higher education degree

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  • Very few Moocs lead to any sort of officially recognised qualification, so the recent success of the University of the People in being permitted to award degrees to students studying for its tuition-free, online-only courses marks a departure for the sector.
  • The University of the People, for example, states that undergraduates will study in groups of 30 to 40
  • he big question is whether you can [offer degrees] without tutorial support, and so at lower cost.
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  • Moocs will have to change considerably to gain credibility and improve the quality of students' learning experience.
  • students will need to be extremely driven to get through.
  • The degree and quality of tutor interactions is seen as critical to any chance of success by others in the sector, too.
  • Mooc providers need to find ways to make the assessment richer, more meaningful and more reliable at scale for larger audiences."
  • These better options include courses from providers such as the Open University and Ed2Go that provide "quality education for specific certificate programs in a much more personalised setting at very competitive prices and, in many cases, to developing nations gratis."
johannetta

How Social Media Is Being Used In Education - Edudemic - 1 views

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socialmedia Social HE

shared by johannetta on 14 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • October 29, 2013
  • While it seems that most faculty have adopted some social media use in their personal life, fewer have done so professionally. And their feelings about using social media professionally (in and out of the classroom) seem to be pretty mixed.
  • cademic writing is meant to be very objective and concise. The opposite of blogging
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