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Ted O'Neill

How EdX Plans to Earn, and Share, Revenue From Free Online Courses - Technology - The C... - 0 views

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  • The first, called the "university self-service model," essentially allows a participating university to use edX's platform as a free learning-management system for a course on the condition that part of any revenue generated by the course flow to edX.
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      Ted O'Neill on 21 Apr 13
       
      This model is literally passing the buck. Just pushes the problem of revenue down the stack. If Harvard and MIT can't generate enough revenue, how will Joe University make enough to pass up the pyramid?
  • The organization charges a base rate of $250,000 for each new course, plus $50,000
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      Ted O'Neill on 21 Apr 13
       
      Which universities have this kind of cash on hand to develop a course when they are essentially getting their faculty to do it for free?
  • EdX has a deal with Pearson VUE, a company that runs a worldwide network of testing centers, to hold proctored examinations for its MOOCs.
    • Ted O'Neill
      Ted O'Neill on 21 Apr 13
       
      Of course, Pearson. The mooc is open and free, the test is closed and expensive. Learning is free, certification is costly. Thank you Pearson.
Ted O'Neill

What You Need to Know About MOOCs - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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  • Ted O'Neill on 21 Apr 13
     
    A one stop timeline of articles about MOOCs in The Chronicle.
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Giving Too Much Credit | iterating toward openness - 0 views

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  • Coursera has done an incredibly effective job harnessing this Presidential passion for press. Coursera – ‘the platform for offering “open” courses’ – has been very noisy about the fact that they only work with prestigious universities. What school doesn’t want to join the Stanford / Tecnológico de Monterrey / Princeton / École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne club? For the cost of offering one class in a new format, a President can officially put his or her institution in the same category as these “prestigious” schools. What Board of Trustees doesn’t want that?
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      Ted O'Neill on 20 Apr 13
       
      But, there is no sign that Coursera is opening the doors to those smaller, less elite institutions, is there? In fact, quite the opposite, I think
Ted O'Neill

Brown University Creates Online Course for High School Students - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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  • as Brown’s team has come to believe, it could start a trend of directly advising high school students and their teachers on specific curriculums, motivated in part by the hypercompetitive college admissions process.
    • Ted O'Neill
      Ted O'Neill on 20 Apr 13
       
      This could actually add to the competitive admissions process, or ideally replace it with a creative learning activity that builds knowledge in the applicant and connections between incoming first-years.
  • Still, Brown’s online development team is debating whether to offer a certificate of some kind to students who complete the course, which officials know would be used as yet another college application supplement.
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      Ted O'Neill on 20 Apr 13
       
      Replace! Don't add to the madness! Be courageous and get rid of the other stuff high school students are forced to do to pad or extend their CVs.
  • Now, in what seems to be the first major effort by a university to tailor a massive open online course, or MOOC, specifically to high school students, Brown University is preparing to offer a free online engineering class with the aim of teaching high school students about the merits and challenges of the field.
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Emergent learning and learning ecologies in Web 2.0 | Williams | The International Revi... - 1 views

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  • Courses can also be deliberately designed as adaptive systems, in which learning emerges.  The MA in Management Learning and Leadership Programme (MAMLL) course at Lancaster University in the UK is an example in which the curriculum itself is emergent, although still within the quality assurance framework for master’s courses (this might have been more difficult in an undergraduate course).
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      Ted O'Neill on 18 Apr 13
       
      Are MOOCs and other connectivist learning approaches best for mature learners/graduate courses if accountability and institutional credits are goals?
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At Educause, a discussion about OER | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • The missing piece is a caveat in Coursera’s terms of service that prohibits the use of Coursera’s MOOCs for anything but informal education.
  • “You may not take any Online Course offered by Coursera,” stipulate the terms, “or use any Letter of Completion as part of any tuition-based or for-credit certification or program for any college, university, or other academic institution without the express written permission from Coursera.”
  • The nonprofit MOOC provider, edX, has made "openness" a major part of its PR message, often to position itself as the more collaborative and less money-oriented player in the market. But edX's terms of service also place limits on the extent to which outsiders can avail themselves of edX content. "Unless otherwise expressly stated on the Site, the texts, exams, video, images and other instructional materials provided with the courses offered on this Site are for your personal use in connection with those courses only," read the site's legal notice.
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  • In any case, the same pool of chief academic officers was largely confident that OER had the potential to save their institutions money -- 65 percent said it could.
  • That sort of faith is unusual for a relatively new type of academic resource, especially one with such an ambiguous definition, said Seaman.
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