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Junjie Liu

Class Central - 0 views

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    A complete list of free online courses offered by Stanford, Coursera, MIT and Harvard led edX (MITx + Harvardx + BerkeleyX), and Udacity
Erin Connors

Colleges Awakening to the Opportunities of Data Mining - 0 views

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    Arizona State University is using data mining to collect information on their students and help guide them to the "most appropriate major". also, in class, using data collection methods, teachers collect information to be used in assessment Ex: "Ms. Galayda can monitor their progress. In her cubicle on a recent Monday, she sees the intimacies of students' study routines - or lack of them - from the last activity they worked on to how many tries they made at each end-of-lesson quiz. For one crammer, the system registers 57 attempts on multiple quizzes in seven days. Pulling back to the big picture, a chart shows 15 students falling behind (in red) and 17 on schedule (in green)."
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    wow this is kind of bothersome on some levels and kinda amazing on other levels. While I can see the benefit of understanding where and how a student is more likely to succeed, I think there are some potential dangers with such a system. There is the what I would imagine the psychological effect of such a program and I am thinking particularly about STEM fields where women are already way under-represented and often self conscious about their performance, do you really also need a system telling you you shouldn't be majoring in that as well cause you're not performing at that point....or what about a student who really wants to be an engineer but maybe hasn't been fully prepared with the appropriate math courses in high school, would he or she be filtered into another major? I understand using such a system as a means to target help for example if a student could get an assessment of where they currently are, where they want to go and how to get there....
Emily Watson

Designing a New Learning Environment - 0 views

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    Stanford's new online course on blended learning environments.
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    I think this is a really important experiment. Venturelab is a MOOC that is using a teams based model. Participants fill out assessments which are used to "build" teams. Team members rate each other's work. Interesting to see how they progress.
Jeffrey Siegel

Where is Technology Leading Higher Education? - 1 views

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    Comprehensive article outlining many trends and pressures in the educational landscape. 1. COLLEGE COSTS HAVE SKYROCKETED 2. CONVENIENCE ATTRACTS STUDENTS ONLINE 3. TEACHERS CONNECT WITH DIGITAL GENERATION 4. DIGITAL EDUCATION OFFERS BROAD REACH 5. FOR-PROFIT COLLEGES COMPETE FOR STUDENTS 6. BIG ONLINE COURSES GAIN NOTORIETY 7. COLLEGE BUDGETS KEEP SHRINKING 8. WHERE IS THIS HEADED?
Cole Shaw

Elsevier partners with edX to provide free versions of textbooks to MOOC students | Ins... - 0 views

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    Kind of ironic, but "old tech" using new tech to promote sales of old tech. Basically Elsevier is giving students in an edX course a free, static version of one of its textbooks. Students then see a link to purchase a discounted, dynamic version--and it seemed to bump up sales! Also interesting is that edX gets a cut of the book sales--maybe another avenue for them to become sustainable, in addition to charging for certification.
Cole Shaw

How MOOCs are affecting universities around the world - 0 views

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    This article looks at one case study in El Salvador where MOOCs have cracked open the door for university reform. Universities in emerging markets operate on really low budgets compared to U.S. universities, and MOOCs give them access to current content, especially important for high-tech subjects.
Janet Dykstra

Rural District Nurtures Dual-Enrollment Effort - 0 views

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    Halifax County High, VA. Nearly one-fifth of its 407 seniors earned associate degrees by the time they graduated last school year, and 91 percent finished high school with a college transcript. The approximately 1,700-student school has become a leader in dual-enrollment participation in the state for its emphasis on dual-enrollment courses.
Maria Anaya

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

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    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.
Emily Watson

College of Future Could Be Come One, Come All - 0 views

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    Discusses the use of crowd-sourcing and peer-evaluation in the MOOC system.
Drew Nelson

Neuroscience and the Classroom - 1 views

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    Interactive insights drawn from neuroscience not only provide educators with a scientific basis for understanding some of the best practices in teaching, but also offer a new lens through which to look at the problems teachers grapple with every day. By gaining insights into how the brain works-and how students actually learn-teachers will be able to create their own solutions to the classroom challenges they face and improve their practice
Drew Nelson

Center for Curriculum ReDesign - 3 views

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    I took a module course from , Charles Fadel , the founder of the organization this semester, and I am very interested in the work he is doing. The Center for Curriculum Redesign (CCR) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving Education via answering the question: "What should students learn in the 21st century?"
Chip Linehan

A Yelp for MOOC's - 1 views

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    The ecosystem continues to build around MOOC's...
Cole Shaw

MOOCs are multiplying rapidly - 0 views

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    One of two articles in the NYTimes they just posted about MOOCs. This one talks about the revolution!
Jason Hammon

The Year of the MOOC - 1 views

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    A description of the current status of MOOC's for a broad audience. As well as the predictions on how this will change the state of education etc...
Junjie Liu

Catching Cheaters on Open Online Courses - 1 views

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    a youtube video on cheating prevention
Jason Hammon

How an Upstart Company Might Profit From Free Courses - College 2.0 - The Chronicle of ... - 1 views

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    This article links to the contract between Coursera and the University of Michigan, mentioning the monetization possibilities, among others. https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/400864-coursera-fully-executed-agreement.html#document/p40
Hessa Ahmad

24 Ed-Tech Terms You Should Know - 9 views

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    This is a truly dumb set of definitions that of course are being widely publicized by the media (sigh)
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    "Social Learning: Using social media as part of class. Who said that Twitter was just for Justin Bieber?"
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    I have revisited this over and over - but each time I realize that no, I'm not hallucinating. They do indeed endorse 1:1 laptop/iPad, as they are "way cooler than stickers." Obviously, they don't have access to the right stickers.
Arthur Josephson

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

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    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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