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Chris McEnroe

HigherEdTECH@CES Gathers Top Change Agents in High-Tech Higher Ed - PR Newswire - sacbe... - 2 views

www.sacbee.com/...echces-gathers-top-change.html

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      Chris McEnroe on 14 Dec 11
       
      I don't have grounds to refute this but neither of these two speakers is in education. Are they "prominent voices" in education? Professor Dede?
  • two prominent voices in technology and education
  • Chris McEnroe on 14 Dec 11
     
    This conference sounds ripe for a TIE field trip.
Jeffrey Siegel

The Crisis in Higher Education - Technology Review - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...the-crisis-in-higher-education

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 29 Sep 12
     
    General discussion of the benefits of MOOCs and the growing dissatisfaction with the state of college education.
Brandon Bentley

University of Phoenix Teams with Technology Leaders for IT Degree Programs - 0 views

www.prnewswire.com/...degree-programs-104406308.html

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  • Brandon Bentley on 07 Oct 10
     
    "This new agreement is part of an ongoing effort by University of Phoenix, the nation's largest institution of higher education, to open the doors to new educational pathways for prospective and current students in the field of Information Technology." Interesting hybrid of college-credit and training/certification programs...
Lindsay Bellino

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  • , "Moving College Into the 21st Century," (October 1, 2009). "The president is proposing to invest $500 million over the next 10 years to create world-class online college and high school courses that will be available to all 24/7/365."
  • Lindsay Bellino on 19 Oct 09
     
    President and Secretary of Education support open source online courses for both higher education and high schools.
Cole Shaw

Making the Flipped Classroom a Reality [Infographic] | EdTech Magazine - 0 views

www.edtechmagazine.com/...-classroom-reality-infographic

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  • Cole Shaw on 11 Sep 12
     
    An infographic on technology use in higher education...I kind of get the "tablet sales" feeling like the NMC report.
Cole Shaw

College may never be the same - USATODAY.com - 0 views

www.usatoday.com/...1

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  • Cole Shaw on 13 Sep 12
     
    Analysis of MOOCs and how they might alter higher education. Not many more additional topics from the usual concerns, but they do have some interviews with MOOC participants that give the article more of a personal feel.
Jennifer Chen

Is entrepreneurship the future for higher education? - 1 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...igher-education_b_4435372.html

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  • Jennifer Chen on 13 Dec 13
     
    There is now tremendous reliance on adjuncts, part-time, and so-called clinical faculty
Cole Shaw

Educational resistance to change - 2 views

www.deseretnews.com/...ange-is-your-organization.html

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  • Cole Shaw on 03 Dec 12
     
    An interesting article on how resistant to change different types of organizations are. Educational institutions rank pretty highly resistant. Though it is interesting to note that businesses rank the most adaptive (non resistant)--so the education technology and startup trend may be a good sign!
  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 04 Dec 12
     
    Interesting. from where I am from (=Japan), business organizations with long history with the majority of employees committed until retirement age of 60 (slowly this is changing though), maybe NPO and even government (with so much shuffling going on) would rank higher...
  • Harvey Shaw on 04 Dec 12
     
    The author makes a good point that heightened market competition seems to contribute to reduced resistance. I noticed that the more-resistant organizations operate in more highly regulated markets, which would seem to create internal cultures more oriented to compliance and, thus, resistance.
Janet Dykstra

Minnesota Bans Free Online Education - Forbes - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...ota-bans-free-online-education

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  • Janet Dykstra on 23 Oct 12
     
    Invoking a decades old law that requires any degree granting academic institution to obtain a license to operate in state (and pay a hefty fee for said license), Minnesota has banned universities from offering free online courses through education site Coursera, prompting the site to issue this notice to all Minnesota users: Coursera has been informed by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education that under Minnesota Statutes (136A.61 to 136A.71), a university cannot offer online courses to Minnesota residents unless the university has received authorization from the State of Minnesota to do so.
Uche Amaechi

Educating Players: Are Games the Future of Education? | Observations, Scientific Americ... - 3 views

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  • Daniel Melia on 27 Oct 12
     
    Notes from a conference on emerging technologies (not sure if Professor Dede was there or not). Count me as a skeptic re: OLPC's Ethiopia experiment, but the Institute of Play/EA partnership is an interesting one. 
  • Mohit Patel on 28 Oct 12
     
    I was at EmTech  at MIT during this panel discussion.
  • Matthew Ong on 28 Oct 12
     
    Thanks for sharing Mohit. I think the implementation of OLPC in numerous countries have been beneficial and a step in the right direction. Maybe if you do place a laptop in a child's hands, he/she could learn certain basic skills (like what the article suggested). But to go beyond that to higher-order thinking skills, a robust curriculum would be needed to complement the technology. Still, credit to these folks for reaching out to the children in need.
Liliana Polo

Google Releases Open-Source Online-Education Software - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of... - 1 views

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  • Liliana Polo on 13 Sep 12
     
    A potentially transformative tool for the narrative of WHO educates and continuing the re-imagination of what constitues valuable knowledge.
  • Cole Shaw on 13 Sep 12
     
    Wow, I think that looks amazingly powerful....they've kind of beat edX to the punch of releasing an open source course platform!
Jason Hammon

MOOC's Take a Major Step Toward College Credit - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 0 views

chronicle.com/...135750

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  • Sunanda V on 15 Nov 12
     
    Sounds promising!
Tomoko Matsukawa

Top Ed-Tech Trends: What's Changed from 2011 to 2012? - 1 views

www.hackeducation.com/...-tech-year-in-review-2012-2011

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  • Tomoko Matsukawa on 19 Nov 12
     
    Before he publishes the actual 2012 review, is reflecting on what he wrote one year ago. (the ten things he highlighted last year was the ipad, social media, text-messaging, data, the digital library, khan academy, STEM, higher education bubble, "open", the business of ed-tech) Personally interested in programming literacy part that is expected to be mentioned. Also like the questions presented at the end. 
Jason Hammon

Could online courses be the death of the humanities? | Higher Education Network | Guard... - 1 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...ine-course-death-of-humanities

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  • Jason Hammon on 19 Dec 12
     
    Online courses and the humanities
Chris Dede

Education Department talks up innovation in high-profile summit | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

www.insidehighered.com/...innovation-high-profile-summit

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  • Chris Dede on 04 Oct 12
     
    Sorting out policy or glitz and glamour?
Maung Nyeu

New Study: Over 6 Million Students Learning Online -- WELLESLEY, Mass., Nov. 9, 2011 /P... - 0 views

www.prnewswire.com/...learning-online-133523438.html

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  • Maung Nyeu on 10 Nov 11
     
    Over 6 million students are learning online. More importantly, the rate of growth is 10% per year compared to 2% student population growth in higher education.
Cole Shaw

The Other Side to Technology in Higher Education - 0 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...igher-education_b_1910858.html

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  • Cole Shaw on 26 Sep 12
     
    Talks about systematic change to education via technology and social media. Gives some good examples of two initiatives in schools. I think it's pretty relevant to what we talked about in class yesterday.
Harley Chang

The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

www.slate.com/...cessful_for_most_students.html

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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.
Mirza Ramic

MOOCs Could Help 2-Year Colleges and Their Students, Says Bill Gates - Technology - The... - 2 views

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  • Mirza Ramic on 04 Oct 13
     
    Bill Gates on MOOCs.
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