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Gardian article about the impact of MOOCs on the education and the end of the universities as business for profit.

It is an article from a newspaper on MOOC's why did you share this?

How connectivism relates to learning in general?

Interview with Patrick McAndrew and Martin Weller

Pearson ran a survey about the use of Social Media in teaching, here is the summar: ■64.4 percent of faculty use social media for their personal lives, 33.8 percent use it for teaching ■41 percent for those under age 35 compared to 30 percent for those over age 55 reported using social media in their teaching ■Faculty in the Humanities and Arts, Professions and Applied Sciences, and the Social Sciences use social media at higher rates than those in Natural Sciences, Mathematics and Computer Science ■Blogs and wikis are preferred for teaching, while Facebook or LinkedIn are used more for social and professional connections ■88 percent of faculty, regardless of discipline, reported using online video in the classroom

I just found out about this...and it just finished! Not that I had time to go! There are slides and audio for the sessions. Some look interesting.

I like this site because it links to a few different repositories.

Strange goings on in Minnesota.