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Nagwa Abou El-Nga

Gates foundation solicits remedial MOOCs | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

  • Gates, MOOCs and Remediation September 14, 2012 - 3:00am By Paul Fain Early returns show that massive open online courses (MOOCs) work best for motivated and academically prepared students. But could high-quality MOOCs benefit a broader range of learners, like those who get tripped up by remedial classes? That’s the question the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wants to answer with a newly announced round of 10 grants for the creation of MOOCs for remedial coursework. “We’re trying to seed the conversation and seed the experimentation,” said Josh Jarrett, the foundation's deputy director for education and postsecondary education. MOOCs tend to provoke strong feelings in the academy, and in the wake of Gates's announcement this week, some observers questioned whether free, widely available online courses could be tailored to students with remedial needs. But others, including experts on developmental learning, welcomed the attempt to tackle one of higher education’s most vexing problems. “This has the potential for raising the quality of instruction in developmental education, if used properly,” said Hunter R. Boylan, director of the National Center for Developmental Education.
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    Application for low-level courses - $5,000
Dana West

Our (Work) Education Crisis: Send In the MOOCs - 1 views

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    MOOCs going corporate to save workplace learning? Predictions/perspective from Bloomberg/Businessweek: "Less appreciated is how the MOOCs could also change employee skill development and lifelong learning at work. "It will be transformational," says Josh Bersin, chief executive officer of his eponymous consulting firm." "I wouldn't be surprised if we see 10 companies or so in a year, offering MOOC -like courses to corporations," says Bersin."
Rebecca Hatherley

Find Open Online Courses ~ MOOC - 1 views

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    "If you are looking for open online courses, please consult one of the sources below. If you are offering a MOOC (that is not from one of the sources listed) please send email to stephen@downes.ca and I will included it in the MOOC Course List."
Peter Lythgoe

Commonwealth of Learning - DANIEL, John - 0 views

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    MOOCs - the story so far Sir John Daniel former President & Chief Executive Officer Commonwealth of Learning http://www.tonybates.ca/wp-content/uploads/Making-Sense-of-MOOCs.pdf
Nagwa Abou El-Nga

eCornell Offers a MOOC That Steers Students to a Paid Follow-Up - Wired Campus - The Ch... - 0 views

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    MOOCS that prepare students for another course where they will earn creditsfor.
Nagwa Abou El-Nga

TLT-SWG: Real Revolution Not MOOCs. Real Revolution Big Open Mostly-Online Things with ... - 2 views

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    summery: MOOCs have bad and good impact discribed well. As faculty I agree that iMOOCs is revelaing knowledge from best universities in the world but initially a loss in tuition fees.
Nagwa Abou El-Nga

Strengthening Ontario's Centres of Creativity, Innovation, and Knowledge - 3 views

Contact North published an interesting article about MOOCs in Ontario http://www.contactnorth.ca/sites/default/files/contactNorth/files/pdf/publications/moocs_-_final.pdf. The article state that th...

Ontario MOOC George Siemans Toronto university

started by Nagwa Abou El-Nga on 25 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
Nagwa Abou El-Nga

Do online courses spell the end for the traditional university? | Education | The Observer - 0 views

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    Gardian article about the impact of MOOCs on the education and the end of the universities as business for profit.
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    It is an article from a newspaper on MOOC's why did you share this?
Nagwa Abou El-Nga

Event Registration (EVENT: 524269) - 0 views

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    Blackboard President of Academic Plateform will deliver a webinar about the changes in online learningmodels. The webinar intro states: " To stay competitive and drive measurable success, institutions are experimenting with new approaches for online education by launching MOOCs, integrating and sharing open education resources, and enhancing the learning experience for socially connected students. " It is interesting to hear about how Blackboard's new approaches will change the open educational resources that will be stored in the iCloud.
Peter Lythgoe

Times Higher Education - Teaching intelligence - This game is wide open - 4 views

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    A Review of MOOC initiatives in the UK
Nagwa Abou El-Nga

Blackboard CEO Resigns and Rumblings in the LMS Academic Market - 0 views

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    Blackboard CEO steps down. What is next for academic Software?? Can an open source software play a role in the future of the academic LMS. I believe YES it will be a main player for MOOCS and Open Courses acess not only in developing countries but also other wealthy countries.
Rebecca Hatherley

Can MOOC's Help Sell Textbooks? - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

  • Publishers have begun to investigate whether so-called MOOC's, or massive open online courses, can help them reach new readers and sell more books.
  • But online courses do have recommended-reading lists, and enrollments in the tens of thousands. If even a small percentage of those online students buy books, the sales could add up to a nice boost for a textbook.
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    Colleges aren't the only enterprises interested in the possibilities of free, online courses. Publishers have begun to investigate whether so-called MOOC's, or massive open online courses, can help them reach new readers and sell more books.
Nagwa Abou El-Nga

MOOC provide professional development - 1 views

How do MOOC provide professional opportunities for emaployees?

Professional Development

started by Nagwa Abou El-Nga on 19 Sep 12 no follow-up yet
Jan Herder

The development of OER in China - 3 views

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    The Development of China's OER - Chinese Course of Excellence Project and Case Study Talk by Jia Yimin.
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