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Maung Nyeu

Education Week: U.S., Chinese Schools Build Virtual Ed. Partnerships - 2 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 31 Jan 12
     
    US and Chinese schools build online virtual education partnership.
Steve Henderson

School Reform for Realists - 0 views

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  • Steve Henderson on 08 Dec 12
     
    Lessons learned from Cisco's experience indicate that business-education partnerships should: * Be set up so that all aspects of the project are transparent to outsiders, even if corporations profit from the R&D * Foster experimentation, because it is not always clear in advance which ideas and projects will work best * Establish in-depth training for every new technology, with businesspeople and educators learning from each other
Emily Watson

Coursera announces second wave of partnerships - 1 views

www.edsurge.com/...es-second-wave-of-partnerships

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  • Emily Watson on 19 Sep 12
     
    More universities get on board with Coursera and MOOC's.
Laura Johnson

Edmodo And Common Sense Media Begin Offering Free Teaching Tools - 0 views

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  • Laura Johnson on 26 Sep 12
     
    Edmodo And Common Sense Media Partner (the authors of the 0-8 report some of us read for Joe Blatt's class this week) to offer free teaching tools based on Dr. Howard Gardner's work at HGSE. The partnership provides teachers with a set of student activities based on Common Sense Media's free K-12 curriculum, "Digital Literacy and Citizenship in a Connected Culture," for the Edmodo platform. The curriculum introduces the basics of using social networks and other digital technologies safely, responsibly and respectfully and is based on the work of Dr. Howard Gardner and the GoodPlay Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Ryan Klinger

Mooc.org - Partnership with google - 0 views

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  • Ryan Klinger on 10 Sep 13
     
    mooc.org is an edX destination through a partnership with Google to power the online learning revolution.
Natalie Hebshie

Detroit Takes Science Education Digital -- THE Journal - 1 views

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  • Natalie Hebshie on 15 Nov 10
     
    Detroit public schools made its science curriculum digital this school year through a partnership with Discovery Education. They don't mention whether students have access to their own laptop or other mobile devices.
Megan Johnston

President Obama Launches "Educate to Innovate" Campaign - 0 views

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  • Megan Johnston on 23 Nov 09
     
    "President Obama will launch the "Educate to Innovate" campaign, a nationwide effort to help reach the administration's goal of moving American students from the middle of the pack to the front in science and math achievement over the next decade. The President will announce a series of partnerships involving leading companies, universities, foundations, non-profits, and organizations representing millions of scientists, engineers and teachers that will motivate and inspire young people across the country to excel in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)."
Maung Nyeu

Telford & Wrekin Council set to achieve 'Learning City' vision through collab... - 0 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 22 Oct 11
     
    "To achieve our vision as a 'learning city', learning must not be defined as a certain task or confined to one place - our learners must have the freedom to learn anytime, anywhere"
Maung Nyeu

Can Technology Help Solve India's Education Problems? | Knowledge@Wharton Today - 0 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 20 Oct 11
     
    Texas Intruments and Intel are developing partnership with Indian firm CORE and others on education technologies. "Advances in technology continue to transform how we live, work, play and learn. Intel is committed to making education accessible and engaging for all students," says R. Ravichandran, director of sales, Intel South Asia.
Maung Nyeu

Knewton Strikes A Deal To Power Pearson's Digital Education Courses | TechCrunch - 1 views

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  • Maung Nyeu on 02 Nov 11
     
    The partnership of Knewton and publisher Pearson will give a boost to digital textbooks and online course materials. The objective is to present educational content personalized to each student's learning pace and abilities. This deal will give it access to millions of students for the first time. Knewton uses alogrithm to personalize education, and the Pearson deal will give it access to millions of titles to create the network effects necessary for its algorithms to be adopted.
  • Bridget Binstock on 02 Nov 11
     
    This is HUGE! School for One will have a run for its money against the breadth and depth of content that Pearson has that can be tied to individualized learning through this type of algorithm and logic! Its a nice place for Pearson (and me) to be!
Janet Dykstra

Right Brain World: Ambitious Experiment in Educational Innovation to Take Place in Sacr... - 0 views

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  • Janet Dykstra on 27 Nov 12
     
    Sacramento, CA, November 26, 2012- They had a simple idea: Find a brilliant mix of innovative people from different professions. Get them together in one space for a day. Invite teachers, EdTech visionaries, hackers and entrepreneurs and encourage them to work on ideas, partnerships, networks, even businesses with the goal of jump starting the economy and revolutionizing education. This should be an interesting conference to monitor - maybe a new educational disruptive design will emerge!
Roshanak Razavi

Exporting Online - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...ate-online-degree-partnerships

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  • Roshanak Razavi on 31 Oct 12
     
    "Coastline Community College is set to create low-cost, online bachelor's degree pathways where students can enroll simultaneously at one of three public universities, none of which are in California."
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.
Kasthuri Gopalaratnam

How Do We Train Teachers in Formative Assessment? - Teacher Beat - Education Week - 2 views

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  • Kasthuri Gopalaratnam on 19 Dec 11
     
    "The best professional-development research shows that teachers need sustained contact hours (between 30 and 100) of training before altering their practices. So, she did a back-of-the envelope calculation about how much time it would take to implement 50 hours of formative-assessment training over the course of a school year...... Teachers would need about six hours a month, for eight months, which amounts to one early-close afternoon a month plus two additional hours. (Good luck with that in this economy.)"
  • James Glanville on 19 Dec 11
     
    Perhaps this is where technology can play an enabling role. Easy to use and real-time tools like Socrative or technology based learning environments with embedded formative assessments (like my formative assessment design proposal for VPA) could help reduce the time / training barriers for teachers to incorporate formative assessment into the teaching practice. At the very least, new curriculum initiatives aligned with common core standards SHOULD BE REQUIRED to incorporate formative-assessments. Unfortunately on PARCC is. "Of the two assessment consortia, the Partnership for the Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC, is not developing formative-assessment resources as part of its federal grant. The other consortium, known as SMARTER Balanced, is."
Sunanda V

Minecraft Developer and UN Collaborate to Get Youth Involved with Urban Planning - 0 views

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  • Sunanda V on 22 Sep 12
     
    This game encourages students to use Minecraft to build their own cities and engage in critical thinking about urban planning. The partnership with the UN will mean that students' engagement in the project will have real world application and consequences as urban planners consider their ideas and plans. Quote: "The first pilot project is already in the planning phase: Kibera, one of Nairobi's slums, is already being translated into Minecraft by builder group FyreUK"
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.
Jennifer Hern

A Virtual Revolution Is Brewing for Colleges - washingtonpost.com - 0 views

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  • When this happens -- be it in 10 years or 20 -- we will see a structural disintegration in the academy akin to that in newspapers now. The typical 2030 faculty will likely be a collection of adjuncts alone in their apartments, using recycled syllabuses and administering multiple-choice tests from afar.
    • Xavier Rozas
      Xavier Rozas on 13 Sep 09
       
      I think this vision is at its core flawed.
  • But within the next 40 years, the majority of brick-and-mortar universities will probably find partnerships with other kinds of services, or close their doors.
    • Jennifer Hern
      Jennifer Hern on 13 Sep 09
       
      I seriously doubt colleges and universities are going to fall by the wayside into cyberspace. The article is focusing on the cost of education at these institutions instead of the quality of education. Yes, more students will have access to higher ed. degrees because they are more affordable, but setting out on your own at eighteen years of age, whether it be going to college or entering the workforce, is a long-held tradition in society. Students at universities aren't just learning about academics, they're learning about social dynamics as well. Based on my personal experience, I probably learned more about why and how people, groups, teams, and large organizations operate and interact (especially in informal settings) than I did about Milton's 15th century Morte D'Arthur. If the author is proposing that MOST high school graduates stay home for an additional two to four years before entering the real world, I think it would create a whole new set of rammifications that would negatively impact our society as a whole.
  • Jennifer Jocz on 13 Sep 09
     
    This article talks about online-learning and the ways it may change the college experience. While I agree that new technology is affecting the way our courses are run, I don't see it leading to the complete shut down of Universities. While it is wonderful that people have access to courses and resources that they may not otherwise have, I believe that there will always be a need for face-to-face interactions that one can only get from a University setting.
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