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Patrice Prusko

MOOCs make waves in higher education worldwide - University World News - 0 views

  • “Alternatively MOOCs, with their high demands for connectivity, online literacy and English language skills, may be excluding developing world students and privileging learners from the most highly developed educational environments.”
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Using MOOCs in Classroom: Interactive Online Learning on Campus | Ithaka S+R - 3 views

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    Published July 10, 2014 Rebecca Griffiths, Matthew Chingos, Christine Mulhern, Richard Spies Online technologies show promise for educating more people in innovative ways that can lower costs for universities and colleges, but how can higher education leaders move forward, confident in their choices about how best to integrate these technologies on their campuses?
Patrice Prusko

Top universities embrace MOOCs, but opinion is divided - University World News - 0 views

  • failings in the MOOC format around sustainability, quality, equality, equity, financial viability, learning quality and accreditation.
  • lacks novelty
  • weaknesses around access, content, quality, accreditation, pedagogy, poor engagement with weaker learners, and exclusion of learners without networking skills
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  • The burning issues for MOOCs are a viable business model and accreditation of learning.
  • networking, reputational and learning skills that MOOC environments require for successful learning.
  • Online autonomy, group formation and inclusion-exclusion feelings among learners are a vital dynamic in MOOC learning, and are probably insufficiently understood.”
  • potential disruptions in higher education; and technology solutions for accreditation, assessment and authentication.
  • using MOOCs to preserve or increase earnings from overseas learners, and in commercial CPD
  • adaptive learning driven by learner analytics; badging and accreditation technology; and authentication technology that would leverage robust and proven peer assessment methods
Patrice Prusko

A Manifesto for Active Learning - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • My classes, instead, are focused on developing intellectual curiosity and teaching students to learn how to learn
  • If I can spark their intellectual curiosity about a subject and teach them how to actively pursue knowledge about that subject
  • students are responding to the lecture in real time on Twitter, and they have agency in the way that the topic develops through various techniques like guiding questions discussed via Twitter or even coming up and writing topics
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