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Emily Watson

College Credit Eyed for Online Courses - 0 views

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  • Emily Watson on 14 Nov 12
     
    The possibility for MOOC's to gain some legitimacy by offering credit through the administration of a fee-based exam.
  • Harvey Shaw on 14 Nov 12
     
    There is an "uncollege" movement that encourages people to complete college degrees by pursuing self-study, then taking CLEP exams to gain college credits. The problem has always been that many higher-priced/name-brand colleges (e.g. Harvard) don't accept CLEP credits, requiring students to pay for credits the old-fashioned way. I wonder whether established schools will accept credits from MOOC courses.
Cole Shaw

A First for Udacity: Transfer Credit at a U.S. University for One of Its Courses - Tech... - 0 views

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MOOC udacity credit university

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  • Cole Shaw on 11 Sep 12
     
    Someone else over the weekend posted about the U of Wisconsin accepting edX courses as transfer credit--found this other article that a university in Colorado is also going to accept Udacity credit!
Daniel Melia

Colorado State to Offer Credits for Online Class - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Daniel Melia on 08 Sep 12
     
    Testing centers and MOOCs and universities are partnering in an effort to offer credit for students who complete online courses. 
Sunanda V

Antioch U. Will Offer MOOC's for Credit Through Coursera - The Ticker - The Chronicle o... - 1 views

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  • Sunanda V on 16 Nov 12
     
    I think it's curious that you're having universities like Antioch and others that are including MOOC courses as for credit options without any kind of evaluation or data on the actual efficacy of MOOCs, let alone specific classes.
  • Cole Shaw on 17 Nov 12
     
    My understanding of the pilot program is that students will still have faculty-led components, though, so it's not purely MOOC. It's more like a blended-learning environment that uses the MOOC as the digital part. So the students will have Antioch exams and homework sets, discussions, etc. If they are satisfied with the efficacy after the pilot, then they will expand the model.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

Mooc rival OERu puts accreditation on menu - 0 views

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 01 Nov 13
     
    Students who complete an Open Educational Resources University course will be able to pay a fee to have their work assessed for academic credit, which would then be recognised by all the universities participating in the OERu. In theory, the students could approach any of the partner institutions with evidence of the credits they have amassed and apply for degrees.
Cole Shaw

edX adds new partner--UT system - 1 views

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  • Cole Shaw on 16 Oct 12
     
    The University of Texas system just decided to join the edX movement, with a $5 million dollar contribution. Gov. Rick Perry is trying to cap costs for a college education in Texas, so he approves of the measure...UT also seems closer than other schools to allowing students to get actual credit for the courses, as the article mentions they are considering tiered payments for classes.
Janet Dykstra

10 Highly Selective Colleges Form Consortium to Offer Online Courses - Wired Campus - T... - 2 views

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  • Janet Dykstra on 25 Nov 12
     
    A group of 10 highly selective colleges has formed a consortium to offer online courses that students enrolled at any of the campuses can take for credit. The group, which includes Wake Forest and Brandeis Universities, will offer semester-long online courses using software from 2U, an education-technology company formerly called 2tor.
Cole Shaw

MOOCs for transfer credit? - 2 views

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  • Cole Shaw on 14 Nov 12
     
    The American Council of Education will review some Coursera classes to see if they will recommend them to other universities as "acceptable." This involves a review by existing professors for course quality. Other interesting tidbits: looks like Coursera will pilot remote-proctoring to verify identity of students; Gates Foundation just gave away $3 million to study MOOCs and create remedial / introductory classes.
Steven Burns

Site-based testing deals strengthen case for granting credit to MOOC students | Inside ... - 1 views

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  • Emily Watson on 10 Sep 12
     
    Taking the next step towards credentialing through MOOC's and establishing greater value for these online classes.
  • Steven Burns on 18 Sep 12
     
    Interesting decision to address a number of common criticisms of online learning: the potential for cheating, the failure of enrollees to complete the course and the lack of certification.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

California Bill Would Force Colleges to Honor Online Classes - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 17 Mar 13
     
    "This would be a big change, acknowledging that colleges aren't the only ones who can offer college courses," said Burck Smith, the founder of Straighterline. "It means rethinking what a college is."
Maria Anaya

Free Online Courses to Be Evaluated for Possible College Credit - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Susan Smiley on 14 Nov 12
     
    This is a natural progression for MOOC's. But I have to wonder, if the wave of the future is a MOOC higher education, then how will our young adults develop, socially? developmentally? psychologically? Will we create a society of socially incompetent adults who are not able to work intereactively, or in groups with co-workers, or lacking negotiation skills, or many of the 21st c. skills needed in many workplaces.
Tommie Anthony Henderson

The fundamentals of Instructor Recertification Classes - 2 views

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  • Tommie Anthony Henderson on 12 Dec 11
     
    A quantity of possibilities exist for lecturers searching with regard to on-line graduate programs. On the net move on courses can be used for continuing schooling (CEUs), in-service credit rating, or perhaps move on credit.
Harley Chang

The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

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  • Harley Chang on 21 Nov 13
     
    Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Udacity, has openly admitted that his company's MOOC courses are a lousy replacement for actual university class and instead will be taking his company to focus more on corporate training. I personally will reserve further judgement until after I finish the readings for next week.
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  • Grif Peterson on 21 Nov 13
     
    I posted this article in G+ a day or two ago. Some of the better commentary surrounding this article below. Tressie McMillan Cottom: "Thrun says it wasn't a failure. It was a lesson. But for the students who invested time and tuition in an experiment foisted on them by the of stewards public highered trusts, failure is a lesson they didn't need." Rebecca Schuman: "Thrun blames neither the corporatization of the university nor the MOOC's use of unqualified "student mentors" in assessment. Instead, he blames the students themselves for being so poor." Stephen Downes: "I think that what amuses me most about the reaction to the Thrun story is the glowing descriptions of him have only intensified. "The King of MOOCs." "The Genius Godfather of MOOCs." Really now. As I and the many other people working toward the same end have pointed out repeatedly, the signal change in MOOCs is openess, not whatever it was (hubris? VC money?) that Thrun brought to the table. Rebecca Schuman claims this is a victory for "the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar." It's not that, no more than the Titanic disaster was a victory for wind-powered passenger transportation."
  • Molly Wasser on 29 Nov 13
     
    Grif - where did the Stephen Downes quote come from ? I read the Rebecca Schuman article and don't really agree with her. To expand on the Schuman quote you posted - it's really interesting how she says the massive lecture format doesn't work but then provides two examples of massive technology that do work - texting and World of Warcraft. This relates directly to some of what we talked about earlier this semester. I don't think it's the 'massive,' as Schuman implies, that causes the failure of a MOOC. It's part of the design. Once the design is better and more engaging, then MOOCs may find that they have higher retention rates. Schuman: Successful education needs personal interaction and accountability, period. This is, in fact, the same reason students feel annoyed, alienated, and anonymous in large lecture halls and thus justified in sexting and playing World of Warcraft during class-and why the answer is not the MOOC, but the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar that has neither a sexy acronym nor a potential for huge corporate partnerships.
  • Grif Peterson on 09 Dec 13
     
    The Downes quote was from OLDaily, which is a daily listserve of his that I subscribe too. I think the difference between texting/WoW and MOOCs is that, while both have many many users, the former two have means in which those groups are disaggregated into smaller units that are largely responsible for the UX/individual growth that goes on. I agree with you that massive is not necessarily the failure, in fact, I think it's the best thing they have going for them. However, until the design can leverage meaningful collaboration, like WoW and texting, the massive will remain a burden.
Cameron Paterson

Will technology kill the academic semester? - 1 views

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  • online program that lets students start class any day they want and finish at their own speed
  • The open format of Jefferson's program, called Learn Anytime, means students don't move through classes in groups. None of Mr. Smith's 400 online students will have a discussion or do a group project with classmates
  • "It doesn't allow students to get a deep understanding of the content."
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  • Regardless of criticism like that, the model is spreading.
  • ther than programs like Learn Anytime, online education generally mimics the familiar face-to-face template. A group of students moves through course work at a set pace and discusses the lessons, typically in a course forum. Jefferson's effort to break that mold grew out of a dual-credit project with a local public-school system. Since 2007, Learn Anytime has exploded from a couple of hundred students to nearly 1,300
  • Mr. Johnson's classroom isn't just virtual. It's also largely automated.
  • "The next frontier in online learning," says Mr. Anderson, "is to merge the social stuff with the self-paced stuff."
  • Cameron Paterson on 12 Oct 10
     
    Ford T. Smith is helping to bulldoze one of the most durable pillars of academic life: the semester.
Arthur Josephson

University of Wisconsin to Offer Credit for "competency-based assessments" rather than ... - 2 views

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  • Arthur Josephson on 31 Jan 13
     
    Wisconsin officials tout the UW Flexible Option as the first to offer multiple, competency-based bachelor's degrees from a public university system. Officials encourage students to complete their education independently through online courses, which have grown in popularity through efforts by companies such as Coursera, edX and Udacity. No classroom time is required under the Wisconsin program except for clinical or practicum work for certain degrees.
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