Popular Coursera classes - 1 views
Claudia W. Scholz, "MOOCs and the Liberal Arts College" - 1 views
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"the author examines lessons from massive open online courses (MOOCs) for small liberal arts colleges (LACs) in the United States. While some consider MOOCs a threat to LACs, they can also be seen as a provocation to spur small institutions to improve their offerings and assert their place in the higher education landscape. The paper examines how LACs might draw on the best tools, approaches, and structures emerging from the MOOC revolution in order to help students build lifelong learning habits."
Assessment Tools for MOOCs -- Campus Technology - 3 views
One MOOC prof resists expansion - 0 views
A MOOC Delusion: Why Visions to Educate the World Are Absurd - WorldWise - The Chronicl... - 1 views
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"among academics, there seems to be as yet nothing but the consideration of students around the world as statistical figures." An interesting take on the serious problems of translation and cultural context in education
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Yes. Although I rarely hear any academics express interest in this aspect of MOOCs.
Now You See It // The Blog of Author Cathy N. Davidson » Storyboarding the Fu... - 3 views
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<< NOTE: This is an ACTIVIST course, with MOOCs not just the platform but also the subject matter for our online conversations. For example, I am very excited about what we will all learn from a global forum directed at the question: "What is the history of defunding public education in YOUR country in YOUR lifetime?" >> The quote above struck me. Having read this course description makes me wonder, if MOOCs can not also be used a bit differently, to further open up the door to the international arena to our students on campus. I have recently been doing a lot of reading on transcultural literacy and competence, which focuses on being able to successfully navigate cultural differences between any culture and the own. Businesses today train their top executives to be transcultural, being able to work anywhere, and manage and lead in any country. I know foreign language curricula have not been very responsive in adjusting to this new need from firms. To full fill this demand, schools would have to push students to gain competence in multiple languages and cultures, on a more shallow level, instead of the mastery that is demanded in the current curricula in one language and culture. Since most institutions claim, that they promote global citizenship, maybe there is a way of assigning groups, and encouraging international and cross cultural communication between the students on campus, and those enrolled in the MOOC from where ever they might be located. I know that managing this, and keeping on top of the conversation partners could be a night mare, and that it doesn't entirely fit into the MOOC frame work, at least the way I understand it at the moment, but I'd love to hear what everyone else i thinking.
The Essence of MOOCs: Multi-Venue, Non-Linear, Learner-Initiated Learning -- Campus Tec... - 1 views
'Watered Down' MOOC Bill Becomes Law In Florida | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views
Essay on disappointing experience in a MOOC | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
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I tend to fall into this camp...the best MOOCs will be focused on learning and using best practices for online learning. Obviously, the size of MOOCs make that challenging...
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"I soon wasn't watching all the videos, and I certainly wasn't doing the practice homework that no one would ever grade. Honestly, I felt more like an audience member than a student." It seems that we have gotten too reliant on stimulation and feed back. Our entire school system and university system is built around mentoring and motivating, where the teacher has the role of an encouraging trainer more than anything else. Have we lost our ability of independent learning, not for a carrot that a teacher holds out in front of us, but for ourselves? I find myself in the same boat as the author of "Essays on disappointing experience". I am not disappointed with the MOOC experience, but am surprised that it takes such high levels of discipline to sit down and do the assignments asked for in the MOOC. Maybe this is a problem of the well to do, that have on some level lost the connection between the insemination of knowledge and the real possibility of upward mobility? NPR had a fascinating report: How Much Can Children Teach Themselves ( see the link below) and again, the children in question grew up in a poor area of Southern India. (http://www.npr.org/2013/06/21/179015266/how-much-can-children-teach-themselves?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=share&utm_campaign=)
Inside a MOOC in Progress - 3 views
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Karen Head is an assistant professor in the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Literature, Media, and Communication, and director of the university's Communication Center. She reports periodically on her group's efforts to develop and offer a massive open online course in freshman composition.
MOOC.ca - 1 views
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