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Harley Chang

The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

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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.
Brandon Bentley

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

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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...
Nick Siewert

YouTube - PSCS on KIRO-TV, 1994 - 1 views

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  • Nick Siewert on 31 Oct 09
     
    Amazing idea, school online. Is it even possible? For credit too? From 1994
  • Nick Siewert on 31 Oct 09
     
    School online, what a concept. Kinda crazy, right? Great look back at 1994.
Jason Hammon

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

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  • Sunanda V on 15 Nov 12
     
    Sounds promising!
Janet Dykstra

10 Highly Selective Colleges Form Consortium to Offer Online Courses - Wired Campus - T... - 2 views

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  • Janet Dykstra on 25 Nov 12
     
    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.
Hongge Ren

3D printing: The hype, the hopes, the hurdles - 0 views

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  • Hongge Ren on 25 Nov 12
     
    At the Techonomy conference, industry leaders discuss the future of three-dimensional printing -- and how the technology will change markets forever. (Credit: Asa Mathat/Techonomy) MARANA, Ariz. - Three-dimensional printing: hype, or hope? That's the question industry leaders sought to answer at the Techonomy conference here in the sunny greater Tucson area.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

California Bill Would Force Colleges to Honor Online Classes - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 17 Mar 13
     
    "This would be a big change, acknowledging that colleges aren't the only ones who can offer college courses," said Burck Smith, the founder of Straighterline. "It means rethinking what a college is."
Arthur Josephson

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

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  • Arthur Josephson on 31 Jan 13
     
    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.
Steve Henderson

Education Week: R.I. Students Gaining 'Badges,' Credits Outside School - 0 views

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  • Steve Henderson on 10 Feb 13
     
    Badge learning in an after school program in Rhode Island.
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.
Bridget Binstock

South Korean Prison To Feature Robot Guards - Forbes - 2 views

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  • Bridget Binstock on 30 Nov 11
     
    I thought this was interesting following our discussion about Sherry Turkle yesterday. Robots assessing "risky behavior?" A South Korean prison will begin a month-long trial to see if robots make good prison guards. (Image Credit: Asian Forum For Corrections) The BBC reports that a jail in Pohang, South Korea, will soon begin a one-month trial of three new robots, which will be there in a support capacity to monitor for "abnormal behavior."
Jennifer Lavalle

Board Approves Idaho Online Class Requirement - 0 views

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  • Jennifer Lavalle on 07 Nov 11
     
    "Idaho is set to become first state in the nation to require high school students to take at least two credits online to graduate." Has anyone seen this yet? Comments/thoughts? I think the main motivator for this initiative is to lower costs...I fear that if finance is the driving force, it won't be implemented as effectively as possible....
Trung Tran

Common Market for MOOCs - 1 views

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  • Trung Tran on 17 Oct 13
     
    Europeans examining a very important feature in MOOCs: credit transfer and its formal system
Garron Hillaire

The Case For Social Media in Schools - 3 views

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  • Elizabeth Delmatoff started a pilot social media program in her Portland, Oregon classroom, 20% of students school-wide were completing extra assignments for no credit, grades had gone up more than 50%
  • Although Delmatoff is adamant that there’s no way to pin her class’s increased academic success specifically to the pilot program, it’s hard to say that it didn’t play a part in the more than 50% grade increase.
  • Kidblog.org is one of many free tools that allow teachers to control an online environment while still benefiting from social media. Delmatoff managed her social media class without a budget by using free tools like Edmodo and Edublogs.
  • Garron Hillaire on 30 Sep 10
     
    An article that advocates the use of social media in the classroom. It highlights one pilot program in Oregon.
Cameron Paterson

Will technology kill the academic semester? - 1 views

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  • online program that lets students start class any day they want and finish at their own speed
  • The open format of Jefferson's program, called Learn Anytime, means students don't move through classes in groups. None of Mr. Smith's 400 online students will have a discussion or do a group project with classmates
  • "It doesn't allow students to get a deep understanding of the content."
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  • Regardless of criticism like that, the model is spreading.
  • ther than programs like Learn Anytime, online education generally mimics the familiar face-to-face template. A group of students moves through course work at a set pace and discusses the lessons, typically in a course forum. Jefferson's effort to break that mold grew out of a dual-credit project with a local public-school system. Since 2007, Learn Anytime has exploded from a couple of hundred students to nearly 1,300
  • Mr. Johnson's classroom isn't just virtual. It's also largely automated.
  • "The next frontier in online learning," says Mr. Anderson, "is to merge the social stuff with the self-paced stuff."
  • Cameron Paterson on 12 Oct 10
     
    Ford T. Smith is helping to bulldoze one of the most durable pillars of academic life: the semester.
pradeepg

technology review magazine: archives are available online and on my fav audible.com too! - 0 views

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  • pradeepg on 10 Oct 11
     
    This is a great magazine ( as I am just figuring out ) Best of all, they offer 3 credits on creating a free account and make some of their archived content free. Even better, they are on audible. Love it !
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