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Crea storie, giochi e animazioni Condividili con tutti, For Educators Scratch is designed with learning and education in mind. A wide variety of educators have been supporting Scratch creators since 2007, in both formal and informal learning environments - K-12 classroom teachers, educational and computer science researchers, librarians, museum educators, and parents. Cos'è ScratchEd? Partito nel Luglio 2009, ScratchEd è una comunità online dove coloro che insegnano Scratch possono condividere storie, scambiare risorse, fare domande e trovare altre persone con i loro stessi interessi. Dalla data di lancio, più di 7500 educatori provenienti da tutto il mondo si sono uniti alla comunità, condividendo centinaia di risorse e dando inizio a migliaia di discussioni. Unisciti gratuitamente alla comunità di ScratchEd sul sito scratch-ed.org. Come posso imparare di più sui modi in cui gli educatori usano Scratch - e come posso usarlo? Non sei sicuro di cosa è possibile fare con Scratch? Leggi una storia su come gli educatori hanno inserito attività basate su Scratch in moltissimi ambienti diversi. O esplora le risorse suddivise per età, discipline e ambienti. Guarda webinars e rivedi documenti come la guida al curriculum Scratch. Oltre ad esplorare la comunità online di ScratchEd e le sue risorse, puoi discutere con il Team di ScratchEd e con gli altri educatori di Scratch anche grazie a Twitter, Facebook, Edmodo, a incontri settimanali e alla nostra newsletter trimestrale.

"This site helps you navigate in e-Learning sources and MOOCs. We try to systematize information about MOOC education. You can use this service to find MOOCs, online courses, share comments and reviews. Our mission is to help people to build a personal education path using free or cheap online courses as alternative to traditional higher education. We help to find free alternatives to expensive college/university courses."

Forse la IUL si potrebbe iscrivere come fornitrice di corsi / MOOC?

"for cooperating with the online learning provider Coursera. (...) We regard this cooperation of the Munich universities with Coursera as a marketing operation. The two universities can present themselves globally together with top international universities. Conversely, Coursera adorns itself with their names. It seems that data protection has not been given much thought. Likewise, we miss a critical discussion of who owns the content produced and who profits from it. By the way, taking Coursera courses is still voluntary for the students. This BigBrotherAward is meant as a warning to colleges and universities not to make participation in MOOCs offered by privacy-ignoring companies a mandatory way to earn study credits. Actually it's bad enough that education increasingly becomes a commodity as publicly financed institutions of higher education distribute their offerings via commercial providers. If an appropriate European MOOC platform does not exist, then it is the the universities' duty to create such a platform. By giving a BigBrotherAward to TUM and LMU Munich, we would like to remind both universities and all other education institutions that the long-term business model of such "education providers" hinges on contracts in which the students are not the customers of the MOOC provider, they are the product being sold."

"Infographic History of Distance Education"

"Can You Really Teach a MOOC in a Refugee Camp? - Wired Campus - Blogs - The Chronicle of Higher Education August 1, 2014 by Steve Kolowich Two men living in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya, would watch lecture videos and take online quizzes at a nearby United Nations compound. (InZone) One narrative that has driven widespread interest in free online courses known as MOOCs is that they can help educate the world. But critics like to emphasize that the courses mostly draw students who already hold traditional degrees. So when Coursera, the largest provider of MOOCs, published a blog post about how a professor had used one of its online courses to teach refugees near the Kenya-Somalia border, it sounded to some like a satire of Silicon Valley's naïve techno-optimism: Hundreds of thousands of devastated Africans stranded in a war zone? MOOCs to the rescue! Details of the experiment paint a more nuanced picture, one that highlights the challenges MOOC providers face in trying to change the lives of downtrodden people. Barbara Moser-Mercer, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Geneva, ran the refugee experiment and wrote Coursera's optimistic blog post about it. But in an interview with The Chronicle, as well as a more formal article she wrote about the experiment for a European conference on MOOCs, the professor expanded on the logistical issues that come with trying to make sophisticated online courses work in deprived settings."

"Education. Online. Free. We bring higher education into the digital age. With our courses, online-teaching becomes interactive, social and accessible around the globe."

"Peer 2 Peer University (we mostly just say P2PU) is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education opportunities. Learning for the people, by the people. About almost anything. Our values Three things guide everything we do: openness, community and peer learning. P2PU is open Being open enables more people to participate and innovate, and makes us accountable. Our community is open so that everyone can participate. Our content is open so that everyone can use it. Our model & technology are open so others can experiment with it and we can all improve it together. Our processes are open so that we remain accountable to our purpose and community. P2PU is a community P2PU is community-centered and our governance model reflects that. P2PU is built driven by volunteers, who are involved in all aspects of the project. As members of this community, we speak and act with civility. We show tolerance and respect for other opinions, people, and perspectives. We strive for quality as a process - driven by community-review, feedback and revision. P2PU is peer learning P2PU is teaching and learning by peers for peers. Everyone has something to contribute and everyone has something to learn. We are all teachers & learners. We take responsibility for our own and each others' learning. "

"Antonio Fini, Andreas Formiconi, Alessandro Giorni, Nuccia Silvana Pirruccello, Elisa Spadavecchia, Emanuela Zibordi Abstract In Fall 2007 David Wiley, professor at Utah State University held a course about Open Education. That time, however, Dr Wiley's course was followed by a rather unusual group of students. The Fall 2007 edition, in fact, was available to anybody, free of charge, all over the world. The only requisite required was the possession of a blog for the completion of the weekly assignments. The present paper, whose authors attended the course completing it successfully, is an account of the experience they had. It can be considered an innovating experience from many different viewpoints and can be regarded as an example of how the world of the formal education can meet the demands of the informal one, in the broader landscape of professional training and lifelong learning. Keywords OER; Open Education; online community; informal learning Full Text: PDF This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License."

"Most people who take massive open online courses already hold a degree from a traditional institution, according to a new paper from the University of Pennsylvania. The paper is based on a survey of 34,779 students worldwide who took 24 courses offered by Penn professors on the Coursera platform. The findings-among the first from outside researchers, rather than MOOC providers-reinforce the truism that most people who take MOOCs are already well educated. The Penn researchers sent the survey to students who had registered for a MOOC and viewed at least one video lecture. More than 80 percent of the respondents had a two- or four-year degree, and 44 percent had some graduate education."

Ma vedi anche il commento di Stephen Downes http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=61414 : "Goodness gracious, the word "MOOCs" does not mean the same thing as "courses offered by Penn professors on the Coursera platform." The Chronicle can be so infuriating at times. Coursera very deliberately targeted an upmarket customer profile, so no wonder that's who they got"

"by Jeff Gould, SafeGov.org Friday, January 31, 2014 When it introduced a new privacy policy designed to improve its ability to target users with ads based on data mining of their online activities, Google said the policy didn't apply to students using Google Apps for Education. But recent court filings by Google's lawyers in a California class action lawsuit against Gmail data mining tell a different story: Google now admits that it does data mine student emails for ad-targeting purposes outside of school, even when ad serving in school is turned off, and its controversial consumer privacy policy does apply to Google Apps for Education."

Attenzione alla data: alcune cose potrebbero essere cambiate nel frattempo.

"Abstract The last five years have witnessed a hype about MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) presaging a revolution in higher education. Although all MOOCs have in common their scale and free access, they have already bifurcated in two very distinct types of courses when compared in terms of their underpinning theory, format and structure, known as c-MOOCs and x-MOOCs. The concept of openness behind each of the formats is also very different. Previous studies have shown that c-and x-MOOCs share some common features but that they clearly differ on the learning theory and pedagogical model on which they stand. In this paper we extend earlier findings and concentrate on the concept of "openness" behind each format showing important differences. Keywords Distance Education; Massive Open Online Course; MOOC; Open Course; Open Learning; Openness"

"The Year of the MOOC (...) MOOCs have been around for a few years as collaborative techie learning events, but this is the year everyone wants in. Elite universities are partnering with Coursera at a furious pace. It now offers courses from 33 of the biggest names in postsecondary education, including Princeton, Brown, Columbia and Duke. In September, Google unleashed a MOOC-building online tool, and Stanford unveiled Class2Go with two courses. "

"Luisella May 27, 2013 at 2:28 pm @tutti coloro che sono interessati a tradurre dall'inglese all'italiano e sottotitolare un tutorial di Diigo, che ne dite di questo? [ http://youtu.be/nkrHFM3s8Bc -e mbeddato] Mi sembra un tutorial interessante perché parla in particolare degli Account per insegnanti. Luisella May 27, 2013 at 2:40 pm Anche, questo, che è più generico, non specifico per la scuola, è comunque molto chiaro e interessante: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcecBgRd3ig&eurl=http://blog.diigo.com/ Claude Almansi May 27, 2013 at 5:58 pm Grazie, Luisella, Con il primo - An introduction to Diigo for educators - ho un problema: online, mi si ferma sempre primo della fine, dove parla dell'account educator. L'ho dovuto scaricare per vederlo per intero, quindi ho un po' paura che crei problemi in Amara (l'app di sottotitolazione), dove andrebbe streamata la versione online. È meglio che le cose filino lisce per "principianti". Il secondo - "Social Bookmarking: Making the Web Work for You - è fatto molto bene, però è di 5 anni fa, e ci sono state nuove versioni dell'interfaccia di Diigo nel frattempo. Ciononostante, mi sembra ancora valida su quasi tutto, e basterebbe aggiungere qualcosa sulla data nella pagina Amara. Per ora l'ho soltanto creata: http://www.amara.org/en/videos/EfplCifDOjln/info/social-bookmarking-making-the-web-work-for-you/ . Il modo + semplice di produrre ST italiani è di prima far quelli inglesi, poi di tradurli. Ma vedi tu come preferisci. Se ti può servire, http://piratepad.net/linf12-ST è il pad che avevamo utilizzato per sottotitolare dei video durante linf12 Ciao Claude"

clicco sul link di- @tutti coloro che sono interessati a tradurre dall'inglese all'italiano e sottotitolare un tutorial di Diigo, che ne dite di questo? [ http://youtu.be/nkrHFM3s8Bc -e mbeddato] - ma il video clipdi youtube che ottengo non ha audio, è un mio problema?

Ciao Fabrizio Io l'audio lo ottengo per http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkrHFM3s8Bc , però come avevo scritto nei commenti citati, il video mi si ferma prima della fine. Cioè probabilmente c'è un problema tecnico, e per questo avevo suggerito di non utilizzarlo per una sottotitolazione collaborativa online.

"The purpose of this document is two-fold: - to offer an online history of the development of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - to use that history to describe major elements of a MOOC Each chapter of this guide looks at one of the first MOOCs and some early influences. It contains these parts: - a description of the MOOC, what it did, and what was learned - a description of the element of MOOC theory learned in the offering of the course - practical tools that can be used to develop that aspect of a MOOC - practical tips on how to be successful Contribute to this Book You are invited to contribute. If you participated in a MOOC, add a paragraph describing your experience (you can sign your name to it, so we know it's a personal story). If you know of resources or can add information about an element of MOOC theory, add to or edit the text that already exists. If you know of tools, provide a link to the tool, a short description, and your assessment of the tool. If you have a tip, add the tip. In order to participate, please email or message your contact details, and we'll you to the list of people who can edit pages. Send your request to stephen@downes.ca Your contributions will be accepted and posted under a CC-By license. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Thanks for your participation. The finished product will be published online and made freely available on the web. Stephen Downes"

Trad: Questo documento ha un doppio scopo: - offrire una storia online dello sviluppo del Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - adoperare questa storia per descrivere elementi importanti di un MOOC. Ogni capitolo di questa guida esamina uno dei primi MOOC ed alcune delle influenze iniziali. È composto di: - una descrizione del MOOC, di cosa vi si è fatto ed imparato - una descrizione dell elemento della teoria dei MOOC imparato nell'offrire il corso - strumenti concreti che possono essere adoperati per sviluppare quell'aspetto di un MOOC - consigli concreti per la riuscita Contribuite a questo Libro Siete invitati a contribuire. Se avete partecipato a un MOOC, aggiungete un paragrafo dove descrivete la vostra esperienza (potete firmare il vostro nome, così sapremo che si tratta di una storia personale). Se conoscete risorse o se potete aggiungere informazioni su un elemento della teoria dei MOOC, aggiungetelo al testo esistente o modificatelo. Se conoscete strumenti, date un link allo strumento, una breve descrizione, e la vostra valutazione dello strumento. Se avete un consiglio, aggiungete quel consiglio. Per partecipare, mandateci un e-mail o un messaggio con i dati per contattarvi, e vi aggiungeremo alla lista di coloro che possono modificare le pagine. Mandata la vostra richiesta a stephen@downes.ca I vostri contributi verranno accettati e pubblicati sotto una licenza Creative Commons BY (attribuzione) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Grazie della vostra partecipazione. Il prodotto finito verrà pubblicato online e reso liberamente accessibilie sul web Stephen Downes.

"Online learning is making headway-not just in traditional colleges, but in high schools as well. If you've been asked to transition your traditional classes to an online format, you may be unsure of where to start. Online learning is vastly different from the traditional classroom in a lot of ways. But there are also ways in which it's unexpectedly similar. Here are a few tips for taking your classroom online."

Fueling their enthusiasm is the explosion of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, the new species of free classes prestigious universities are offering to students around the world. As educators debate what the classes mean for the future of traditional universities, one thing is clear - they provide a vast laboratory to study learning, using a trail of electronic data to examine what resources or study habits best help students, whether they take courses online or in traditional classrooms.

"Il cMOOC della IUL, a.a. 2012-2013 LABORATORIO DI TECNOLOGIE INTERNET PER LA SCUOLA #LTIS13 Curato da Andreas Robert Formiconi connectivist: studente al centro, apprendimento cooperativo Massive: senza limiti di iscrizioni Open: liberamente e gratuitamente fruibile Online: accessibile da qualsiasi browser Course: un insegnamento universitario Inizio: 3 aprile 2013 Durata: 10 settimane Modalità di fruizione: chiunque può partecipare liberamente e gratuitamente, per iscriversi occorre semplicemente spedire un'email a cmooc@iuline.it specificando nome, cognome e città di provenienza i partecipanti che alla fine del corso abbiano preso parte attivamente e con successo a tutte le attività proposte, potranno ricevere 6 CFU mediante un iscrizione post hoc al costo di 150 € i suddetti crediti potranno essere validi per l'insegnamento di "Laboratorio Informatico" per tutti coloro che si dovessero successivamente iscrivere al Corso di Laurea "Metodi e Tecniche delle Interazioni Educative" presso la IUL, ivi compresi eventuali studenti dell'ultimo anno di scuola superiore i CFU acquisiti potranno altresì essere riconosciuti, in totalità o in parte, nel Master di I livello "Le nuove competenze digitali: open education, social e mobile learning", promosso da UNIFI e in master e corsi di perfezionamento affini, promossi dalla IUL. Obiettivi del corso Imparare ad abitare nel cyberspazio Imparare a imparare e a insegnare nel cyberspazio Imparare a creare comunità di apprendimento e aggiornamento professionale Annullare il gap tecnologico fra vecchie e nuove generazioni Orientare gli studenti dell'ultimo anno di scuola superiore interessati al proseguimento degli studi nell'area delle Scienze della Formazione "

"Videogames are one of the fastest trending topics in media, education, and technology. Research across fields as disparate as science, literacy, history, visual processing, curriculum, and computer science suggests that videogames aren't just fun - they can actually be good for your mind as well. In this course, we will discuss current research on the kinds of thinking and learning that goes into videogames and gaming culture. We'll investigate the intellectual side of digital gameplay, covering topics that range from perception and attention in Left 4 Dead 2 to the development of historical understanding in Civilization to collaborative learning in massively multiplayer online games like World of Warcraft. Throughout the course, we examine the inherent tensions between contemporary youth culture and traditional education and new developments in games for learning that promise to help bridge that growing divide."

""Amara's captioning and translation services have helped Coursera deliver educational videos to hundreds of thousands of students around the world," said Andrew Ng, co-founder of Coursera. "This was key to making our content accessible to non-native speakers, and has allowed our content to be delivered in dozens of languages.""

Queste "pagine nascoste" del blog about di Amara sono strane: un pezzo di codice per embeddare un player con una trascrizione interattiva, comunicati stampa non datati, fra i quali questo: ora la cosa bizzarra è che è da un anno che Coursera ha smesso di usare Amara, e da 10 mesi che ha cancellato il suo team Amara. Il team di Khan Academy c'è ancora, ma è praticamente deserto.

"K-8 Intro to Computer Science is a free course that aims to demystify computer science and show K-8 students that it's fun, collaborative, and creative. The course is designed to motivate students and educators to continue learning computer science to improve real world relationships, connections, and life. Educators will foster an environment of communal learning that emphasizes risk-taking. This course will teach students about computer science, computational thinking, and programming. It will also teach that success does not come on the first try, just like the world's most difficult problems aren't solved on the first try. Challenge is good when it is supported by plans and tools that lead to success. This course will help students persevere in solving problems."