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MOOCs Could Help 2-Year Colleges and Their Students, Says Bill Gates - Technology - The... - 2 views
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Bill Gates on MOOCs.
A Manifesto for Active Learning - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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Great read on cultivating active learning, including the role of technology (though not transformative technology) in the classroom. Talks about engaging the more "shy" / deeply thinking students in class via Twitter chat - "smart students like to talk, smarter students like to listen."
NEXT: The Future of Higher Education - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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A special report on the future of higher education and the role of innovation - lots of interesting and relevant topics here, including rethinking assessment standards, flipping classrooms, and reinventing the academic calendar.
The New, Lifelong, Nonlinear Path Through College - NEXT: The Future of Higher Educatio... - 0 views
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Really interesting article about the potential of a lifelong and nonlinear path through college - reminiscent of Prof. Dede's lifelong and life-wide learning propositions/models.
Should Colleges Encourage Better Tech/Life Balance? - Tech Therapy - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views
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Naomi S. Baron, a linguistics professor at American University, studies how cell phones and online messaging change social interactions. She talks to the Tech Therapy team about her concern that colleges push too much technology on students and professors. Should colleges encourage e-mail-free Fridays?
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Interesting to think about technology saturation is impacting college students. Some college professors are even resisting technology integration in the classroom because of it - if you're interested in Higher Ed, the Chronicle of Higher Education has many interesting articles about technology in university settings.
The Shadow Scholar - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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Interesting tale of a professional plagiarist. Is it something we need to be worried about more as students are more likely to seek help online?
Coursera Hits 1 Million Students, With Udacity Close Behind - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 1 views
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Updates stats on the largest "Massive Open Online Courses: or MOOC's. Coursera leading Udacity....
Antioch U. Will Offer MOOC's for Credit Through Coursera - The Ticker - The Chronicle o... - 1 views
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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.
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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.
MOOC's Take a Major Step Toward College Credit - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 0 views
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Sounds promising!
Google's Ingress and Location-Based Learning - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Edu... - 0 views
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November 26, 2012, 11:00 am This month Google's Niantic Labs quietly released a location-based game called Ingress that plays with data on multiple levels. The game, currently in invite-only beta, invites players to join either the Enlightenment or the Resistance and move through the physical world hunting "Exotic Matter", and coincidentally generating data and pictures for Google on the way. This looks similar to EcoMobile!
10 Highly Selective Colleges Form Consortium to Offer Online Courses - Wired Campus - T... - 2 views
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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.
New Guides Aim to Become the Yelp for MOOC's - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 2 views
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Websites are springing up that sort and collect reviews of MOOC courses. Meta-MOOC's essentially. Interesting how quickly an ecosystem can begin to develop around a new technology.
Providers of Free MOOC's Now Charge Employers for Access to Student Data - Technology -... - 2 views
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Wow, pretty interesting that Coursera is getting into this game. I always thought that was a strong suit of Udacity and one possible way for them to get sustainable revenue.
Providers of Free MOOC's Now Charge Employers for Access to Student Data - Technology -... - 0 views
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"Coursera announced its employee-matching service, called Coursera Career Services. Some high-profile tech companies have already signed up-including Facebook and Twitter"
Warming Up to MOOC's - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views
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Flipping the College classroom using MOOCs
Providers of Free MOOC's Now Charge Employers for Access to Student Data - Technology -... - 0 views
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How a MOOC might help you!
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