Pearson's take on MOOCs - 2 views
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Cole Shaw on 30 Sep 12Kind of like Professor Dede's post about McGraw-Hill's interest in e-learning, here is a blog post from Pearson about MOOCs. I think his take (Jeff Borden, one of their VPs) is pretty accurate, in that we need a version 2 where it's not as lecture-based as version 1. I would guess that they are working on their own "version 2" solution (perhaps with Knewton?).
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Maria Anaya on 30 Sep 12In a couple of weeks a bunch of Pearson people are spending a couple of days at MIT Media Lab learning about the future of learning. Specifically they are interested on how to capitalise on technology and how to make education of all kinds for all ages more widely accessible, more affordable, more effective. Should be interesting, the lab will be doing demos all day of all the projects in the Media Lab.
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Cole Shaw on 01 Oct 12Maria, do you know if this event is open to the public, or more a "sponsor-day" event? I would love to go!
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Maria Anaya on 01 Oct 12Not sure if it's public event, I only know about it because I will be helping with the App Inventor demo. I'll let you know once I know more info.