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a course for $37 on being a freelancer

Blog post by William Bowen, March 25, 2013, on movement towards online education. He would like more hard evidence to understand impact/success among other effects, tool kits (platforms), new mind-set to attempt online to reduce costs without adversely affecting educational outcomes, what we must retain in terms of central aspects of life on campus such as "minds rubbing against minds." Excerpts: "My plea is for the adoption of a portfolio approach to curricular development that provides a calibrated mix of instructional styles." ... "Their students, along with others of their generation, will expect to use digital resources-and to be trained in their use. And as technologies grow increasingly sophisticated, and we learn more about how students learn and what pedagogical methods work best in various fields, even top-tier institutions will stand to gain from the use of such technologies to improve student learning." Really like this comment for value of MOOCs for post-college graduates: "A quibble. I am intrigued by your comment about "minds rubbing against minds." While there is undeniable worthiness of the thought inside academic communities perhaps underestimated is the lack of such friction after graduation and how MOOCs can provide opportunities outside the alma maternal environments. To take courses at the local U. costs both in inconvenience of scheduling, transportation and monetary costs equivalent to constantly having a new Hyundai. Those requirements wind up as being unreasonable. Since January I have had the great pleasure of thinking about the thoughts of Dave Ward and colleagues from the University of Edinburgh and arguing about points in the forums. More recently, Michael Sandel on Justice from Boston. These opportunities are enormously better than nothing at all, clearly benefiting myself and probably also friends, colleagues and civil society. While these experiences do not provide the intensity of a post seminar argument in the Ree

Martin Weller's blog entitled: You can stop worrying about MOOCs now. Interesting in it reports the trend now that commercial MOOC providers are trending toward blended courses, and in Coursera's case, offering "MOOC-based learning on campus" which turns out to essentially be a course!

Interesting blog on the return of the f2f in the world of MOOCs

Article in MindShift, KQED, April 24, 2012 by Nathan Miton. Fabulous because it recognizes that content is one leg of learning stool. Excerpt: But at such a huge scale, what are the digital methods of teaching that work best? Philipp Schmidt, founder of the free online university P2PU, preaches three building blocks: community, recognition and content. Endorsement of peer learning potential Excerpt: The Stanford professors readily admit that some of the students who participated in their online courses provided their peers with deeper, more comprehensive answers than they were able to. The exponential explosion in opportunities for learning. Excerpt: in the past 10 years I've heard people say campus-based education better look out, that this will be threatening to their business model, and I've never really felt that until the last six months. The pace of change in open education is qualitatively different than it was even a few months ago." A new breed of digital pedagogy/andragogy/heutagogy Excerpt: "We probably haven't fully made the transition to digitally native pedagogies and learning approaches," Carson said. "The first generation of distance learning is basically an attempt to move the classroom online, and I think that part of the scalable learning of these massive courses is the breakdown of that model."

Another approach might be with engage a large or small company to guide their employees through courses that would improve their current job skills. I shared a writing course I found at the Purdue sight with me daughter. She shared it with her supervisor suggesting that their whole team take the course. There may also be opportunities to work with job centers to educate potential employees on specific job skills required by a company. I mentioned online learning at my most recent book club. WOW, they see it as a way to exchange money for a degree. The response was very negative. Now, Judge Judy is offering online access to cases - and you can weigh in on how you think it should be resolved. Online interaction is coming but, there needs to be a clear case made for its value as an educational tool. I have always had a fear about "experts" teaching the courses. It reminds me of cloning.

Open Culture website--lists all kinds of free online courses; should we link to this site or somehow study these to see which ones we might recommend to WLStudio learners?

2500+ training providers offering over 35,000 courses covering 100,s of course subjects across the UK We help businesses and individuals like you! To find the training providers and courses you need....

Look at the reference to Open Culture which has 500 courses available free for people to take online.

RedHoop has an aggregation of over 7,000 (free, free trial, paid) online courses. Put in the topic you wish to learn about, and it sorts through the database to find them. I found 11 in 2 seconds on infographics. Like their tag line: search, learn, grow. Maybe we should just have RedHoop as a one-stop directory?

Enrollment in Distance Education Courses by State: Fall 2012 from a USDOE Web Tables report from June 2014. Interestingly, black and native American colleges offered the least number of online courses.

Although from 2006, this is an interesting take on preparing students to really engage in online discussion. The faculty, Edward J. Gallagher, creates scaffolds for student engagement principles and practice, has students read the course constitution, and structures the course around the discussion vs. content.

something to think about to scaffold discussion groups

The New York Times examine the MOOC phenomena.

LA Times article on free, online, no credit college-level courses, December 9, 2011. Check to see if they are all in directory.

MIT and Harvard have teamed up to offer MOOCs, and this month Stanford, Princeton, U of PA, U of MI have created a new commercial company, Coursera, with $16 million in venture capital.

We definitely want to include this in our directory. Stanford just appointed and administrator who deals exclusively with online learning. Over 3,000 Stanford audio and video programs are available on Apple's popular iTunes platform, including course lectures, faculty presentations and campus events. The iTunes U app provides access to additional course content from several Stanford courses.

course (1.5 hours) on four simple leadership tools--free from Udemy

I like the icons on the side that describe what you will do. I am wondering if we can use these in the services area so it is clear what each of our E-vents or Learning Labs will entail. I also liked the prerequisite list which makes clear what skills you need to take the course.

Don Kilburn/Tom Vander Ark blog post on how formative assessment made possible by technology is helping GenerationDo-It-Yourself students (and teachers?) remediate while still in high school. Pearson is behind this article (remember Barb McDonald's mention of this in a CPSquare discussion).

Rio Salado College is an online community college and offers a lot of the topics we want to offer in the Studio. This link is to the description of their offers in relation to online overload and net savvy. Although geared towards their students, anyone could take these.

I'm beginning to wonder if we have been overcome by events in terms of our learning offers! The course descriptions look really good.

article by Bryant Nielson on how to develop new skills--online courses, study LinkedIn for certifications held by people in youer field.