Khan Academy has done some good work, but I certainly do not believe it is the solution to the nation's problems in education. A critique, by Karim Kai Ani, considers the videos to be poor, as well...
Hi all! My name is Ashton and I'm a Graduate Assistant for your MOOC course. I really enjoyed this video and find the discussion you are having very relevant and interesting. I love Ted Talks and h...
started by Marina Joubert on 09 Sep 14
4 follow-ups, last by arnapier on 15 Sep 14
I work as a technology and robotics teacher at a k-12 school in Mexico, and I usually try to include all kinds of OERs into my lessons because I think technology need to be easy-access and affordab...
Khan Academy has expanded from just creating videos to include a whole platform through which students can move through the content, including analytics for teachers and parents to track them. And ...
I recommend you an article on What Knowledge Is of Most Worth: Teacher Knowledge for 21st Century Learning, written by Kristen Kereluik, Punya Mishra, Chris Fahnoe and Laura Terry from Michigan Sta...
Dear Julia and Dilrukshi, Thank you for getting back to me and for your encouragement. I know it's been a while and this is not entirely good practice, but I would appreciate your feedback on the d...
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started by jurado-navas on 21 Sep 14
1 follow-up, last by jurado-navas on 12 Oct 14
Totally agree with the term "21st century" :)
Throughout the Islamic lands, too, there was no concept of intellectual property for many hundreds of years. All knowledge was thought to come from God. The Koran was the single great scripture fro...
Good evening! That is a very interesting post about how we can publish in web our own materials. http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2010/12/7-visually-appealing-ways-to-publish.html#.VC9wq2ddXkU K...
The public good they make possible is the world-wide electronic distribution of the peer-reviewed journal literature and completely free and unrestricted access to it by all scientists, scholars, t...
Image url: https://www.flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/sets/72157631208816740/ Author : Giulia Forsythe Title:Online open educational resources and open licenses .Link to the license; https://creativec...
While reading a lot in the different Groups recommended in this stanford MOOC i figured some new resources for me: as a teacher: Student-driven journals to introduce scientific Quality, quizstar to...
Interesting take, and I feel I agree for the most part. I think it`s simply the democratization of knowledge and a new pedagogy. Guarded knowledge, housed in hierarchical learning fraternities is o...
started by kenlitt on 30 Nov 14
1 follow-up, last by robert morris on 30 Nov 14
Great post to help us balance the conversation, Colin. As you probably noticed, I'm one of the those evangelists for self-determined learning, but I do respect the point. I'd argue that traditional...
Moocstarter is a website where anyone can ask for a new kind of MOOC to be created. If the idea gets enough votes, they search for teachers and create it in different languages.
