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Pearson unveils OER search engine | Inside Higher Ed - 4 views

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pearson open educational resources

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Jason Hammon on 12 Nov 12

Pearson gets into the MOOC action by creating a search engine for content.

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Brandon Pousley on 30 Nov 12

Pearson makes an interesting business move by recognizing and organizing Open Educational Resources. I often wonder how the questions of academic integrity, quality, etc will be answered in the marketplace.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Pearson makes an interesting business move by recognizing and organizing Open Educational Resources. I often wonder how the questions of academic integrity, quality, etc will be answered in the marketplace. </div>

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Leading colleges announce for-credit, online courses - 0 views

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online education mooc higher college credit

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Degreed Wants To Jailbreak The College Degree | TechCrunch - 2 views

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MOOC credentials higher education informal lifelong learning

shared by Tomoko Matsukawa on 19 Nov 12 - No Cached

Tomoko Matsukawa on 19 Nov 12

Business still early in development. They are trying to provide solution for this problem: 'it's extremely difficult to track, quantify and contextualize the diversity of experiences in informal lifelong learning." Too early to say if this is even a sustainable business model but we will see.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Business still early in development. They are trying to provide solution for this problem: 'it's extremely difficult to track, quantify and contextualize the diversity of experiences in informal lifelong learning." Too early to say if this is even a sustainable business model but we will see. </div>

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

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Technology education

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Emily Watson on 20 Nov 12

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

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Knollop Home - Knollop - 0 views

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MOOC edtech HGSET561

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Laura Johnson on 05 Dec 12

Knollop is your portal to discover, review and follow thousands of online learning materials in any subject from Coursera, Edx, Udacity, Udemy, and top universities.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Knollop is your portal to discover, review and follow thousands of online learning materials in any subject from Coursera, Edx, Udacity, Udemy, and top universities.</div>

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A class open to the world | Harvard Gazette - 0 views

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MOOC realtime_interaction global_learning

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Junjie Liu on 04 Dec 12

Tapping into the Internet and using several iPads as video cameras, Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, connected his Harvard students in Sanders Theatre on Friday with students in Japan, China, Brazil, and India for a wide-ranging discussion that explored the complicated question of the ethics of solidarity and the dilemmas associated with patriotism, membership, and collective responsibility.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Tapping into the Internet and using several iPads as video cameras, Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, connected his Harvard students in Sanders Theatre on Friday with students in Japan, China, Brazil, and India for a wide-ranging discussion that explored the complicated question of the ethics of solidarity and the dilemmas associated with patriotism, membership, and collective responsibility. </div>

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UMass Announces Free Online Courses « CBS Boston - 1 views

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MOOC online educational_technology learning

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One Class, 36,000 Students by Elliott Holt - 0 views

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poetry MOOCs

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Daniel Melia on 11 Dec 12

Because it is not every day you get to link to poetryfoundation.org for an ed tech course...

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California to Give Web Courses a Big Trial - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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MOOC online courses Udacity

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Introducing Signature Track - 5 views

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Coursera MOOC Certificate

shared by Junjie Liu on 22 Jan 13 - No Cached

Junjie Liu on 22 Jan 13

Coursera announced Signature Track, a new option that will give students in select classes the opportunity to earn a Verified Certificate for completing their Coursera course. 30-100$ per course. Signature Track offers: Identity Verification. Verified Certificates. Sharable Course Records.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Coursera announced Signature Track, a new option that will give students in select classes the opportunity to earn a Verified Certificate for completing their Coursera course. 30-100$ per course. Signature Track offers: Identity Verification. Verified Certificates. Sharable Course Records.</div>

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Catching Cheaters on Open Online Courses - 1 views

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MOOC cheating

shared by Junjie Liu on 19 Jan 13 - No Cached

Junjie Liu on 19 Jan 13

a youtube video on cheating prevention

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Coursera Prof To Use VSee For Peer Learning Groups - 2 views

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MOOC peer_learning video_conference

shared by Junjie Liu on 02 Mar 13 - No Cached

Junjie Liu on 02 Mar 13

VSee is a high quality video conference tool compared to skype and google hangout. It's good for video conference, pen annotation and file sharing.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">VSee is a high quality video conference tool compared to skype and google hangout. It's good for video conference, pen annotation and file sharing.</div>

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New Technologies Aim to Foil Online Course Cheating - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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MOOC technologies emerging technology

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The dirty little secret of online learning - 1 views

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mooc online learning highered

shared by Sunanda V on 21 Mar 13 - No Cached

digital learning needs to become much more mobile, personal and social.
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Fine-tuning online education - 1 views

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edx mooc interspersed assessment

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Junjie Liu on 09 Apr 13

interspersing online lectures with short tests improved student performance.

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5 Ways Technology Will Impact Higher Ed in 2013 - Forbes - 1 views

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MOOC

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Jason Hammon on 19 Dec 12

Forbes prediction for how technology will impact Higher education

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Online learning in 2012: a retrospective - 0 views

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mooc online

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Jason Hammon on 19 Dec 12

A retrospective look at online learning in 2012

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nasty, brutish, and short | theory.cribchronicles.com - 2 views

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social online

shared by Harvey Shaw on 03 Jan 13 - No Cached

Harvey Shaw on 03 Jan 13

Been reading about constructivist MOOCs lately (like the T561 virtual community), and ran across this essay from October on the nature of the social contract in a network-connected, physically-disconnected community.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Been reading about constructivist MOOCs lately (like the T561 virtual community), and ran across this essay from October on the nature of the social contract in a network-connected, physically-disconnected community.</div>

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Massive Open Online Courses Prove Popular, if Not Lucrative Yet - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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online courses MOOC

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Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 08 Jan 13

""No one's got the model that's going to work yet," said James Grimmelmann, a New York Law School professor who specializes in computer and Internet law. "I expect all the current ventures to fail, because the expectations are too high. People think something will catch on like wildfire. But more likely, it's maybe a decade later that somebody figures out how to do it and make money." "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""No one's got the model that's going to work yet," said James Grimmelmann, a New York Law School professor who specializes in computer and Internet law. "I expect all the current ventures to fail, because the expectations are too high. People think something will catch on like wildfire. But more likely, it's maybe a decade later that somebody figures out how to do it and make money." "</div>

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Union Square Ventures -- online education materials - Google Drive - 1 views

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online education edX MOOC educational_technology

shared by Adrian Melia on 15 Dec 12 - No Cached

Adrian Melia on 15 Dec 12

A potpourri of articles about online education compiled by Union Square Ventures as part of their analysis of the education market.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A potpourri of articles about online education compiled by Union Square Ventures as part of their analysis of the education market.</div>

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