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MOOCs and their shorsightedness.

A yelp for MOOCs

Using MOOCs and technology to further stratify education

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!

From the Chronicle of Higher Education, 3 questions to guide the development of a MOOC program. How does EdX rate?

Financial analysis of MOOCs and potential impact on lesser-known universities...though I think people are still trying to figure out where MOOCs play in the general higher education landscape.

A potentially transformative tool for the narrative of WHO educates and continuing the re-imagination of what constitues valuable knowledge.

Wow, I think that looks amazingly powerful....they've kind of beat edX to the punch of releasing an open source course platform!

Brian Lukoff, a Technology & Education Postdoc Fellow working with Eric Mazur, just sent me this article which discusses their new ed tech startup Learning Catalytics.  It's the evolution of the Eric's clicker supported Peer Instruction.  I'm meeting with Brian and Eric on Tuesday to setup a TIE spring internship doing business development for Learning Catalytics.

Despite the wealth of information available on the Internet, a recent study suggests that many students lack basic research skills. According to the latest Project Information Literacy Progress Report, 84 percent of students say that when it comes to course-based research, getting started is their biggest challenge.

A major competitor to the Harvard-MIT-Berkeley Edx consortium

Provides a nice overview and timeline of MOOC history since last summer.

Discusses the increase of agressive marketing that facilitates cheating that is being coupled with the growing of opportunities for online learning.

Trying to move the MOOC conversation beyond hype and toward more careful analysis.

I hope more organizations create a home for failed apps. We can learn from what went wrong or consider why an option never caught on.

What about providing students iPads so that they purchase textbooks on these devices to save resources for both the students and the school? Can we assume that all students will be comfortable using an iPad, or might there be implications for students with learning differences? What about the socioeconomic gap for students who cannot afford a computer to LOAD the books onto their iPads (even if the iPads themselves were provided)?