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Harley Chang

The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

www.slate.com/...cessful_for_most_students.html

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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.
Mirza Ramic

Online Courses Attract Degree Holders, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...gree-holders-survey-finds.html

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  • Mirza Ramic on 23 Nov 13
     
    "Although Coursera's founders have presented their MOOCs as a way to democratize higher education by making it available online, free, to anyone in the world, the Penn survey found that in the United States and developing countries alike, most Coursera students were well educated, employed, young and male."
  • Trung Tran on 24 Nov 13
     
    FYI, I went to Penn last year and was aware of this type of survey. Apparently, if you have a chance to look into their methodology, then they probably select a far larger number of Penn alumni than a representative portion. Considering that many Penn alumni love the idea of taking classes for free at their Alma Mater, I feel a bit skeptical about that reported unusually high percentage of bachelor's degree holders.
  • Molly Wasser on 29 Nov 13
     
    I think that this makes a lot of sense. You have to be very self-motivated with a desire to learn AND have the online resources and time to take a MOOC. That's a lot - and I would guess that people who are highly educated tend to be self-motivated. And then young men probably have more time than working parents. There's a lot of constraining factors despite the 'openness' of a MOOC.
Trung Tran

Moocs are no magic bullet for educating Americans - FT.com - 0 views

www.ft.com/...99-11e3-9250-00144feabdc0.html

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  • Trung Tran on 24 Nov 13
     
    Optimists have scoured the dictionary for superlatives to describe the future of internet education. But the cult of the Mooc - massive online open courses - took a blow last week when one of its leading Silicon Valley pioneers, Sebastian Thrun,
Mirza Ramic

Massachusetts Institute of Technology names edX key component in educational strategy |... - 1 views

www.insidehighered.com/...component-educational-strategy

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  • Mirza Ramic on 25 Nov 13
     
    MIT considering its future vis-a-vis edX: "An education from MIT may soon involve a freshman year spent completing online courses, two years on campus and a fourth "year" of continuous education. While students pursue their careers, they could access a growing library of online courses to refresh their knowledge."access a growing library of online courses to refresh their knowledge."
Trung Tran

UB hopes new type of online class will transform education - 1 views

www.baltimoresun.com/...asses-20131124,0,4333547.story

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  • Trung Tran on 26 Nov 13
     
    See why online education might be more benefiting for large state school systems who capitalize effectively on its flexibility while providing the same type of credentials.
Trung Tran

Metaio CEO Thomas Alt Discusses Augmented Reality For Smartwatches, Google Glass And More - 0 views

techcrunch.com/...twatches-google-glass-and-more

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  • Trung Tran on 27 Nov 13
     
    Augmented Reality pioneers Metaio hardly qualify as a startup these days (being incorporated since 2003 and funded by a stream of project work from the likes of Volkswagen and IKEA), but they behave very much like a startup and are constantly inventing new systems for their considerable augmented reality SDK.
Maria Bueno

Powering the Digital Classroom - 2 views

www.eschoolnews.com/...special-report-digital-141

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  • Maria Bueno on 01 Dec 13
     
    A national survey, called ''Speak Up, asks K-12 students, parents, teachers and administrators about their ed-tech experiences: ''there seems to be a disconnect between how students say they want to learn and how they're actually learning in the classroom''
Jenny Reuter

NEA - NEA Policy Statement on Digital Learning - 3 views

www.nea.org/55434.htm

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  • Nate Justis on 05 Dec 13
     
    This line caught my eye - "The appropriate use of technology in education-as defined by educators rather than entities driven by for-profit motives..." Thanks for sharing Jenny!
  • Krithika Jagannath on 08 Dec 13
     
    Great read, thank you for sharing. Nicely touches upon a lot of topics from our course -- blended and hybrid learning, student-centered learning, teachers as curriculum designers, equity, technology as a tool...
Simon Rodberg

Teaching Algebra through Coding in Boston Schools - 3 views

www.bostonglobe.com/...story.html

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  • Simon Rodberg on 02 Dec 13
     
    Featuring a HGSE grad student...
Matthew Ong

Why gaming is good for you (or is it really?) - 2 views

www.affordableschoolsonline.com/ng-is-good-for-you-infographic

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  • Matthew Ong on 03 Dec 13
     
    An interesting infographic on gaming
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