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Christopher Sessums

MOOC's and the McDonaldization of Global Higher Education - WorldWise - The Chronicle o... - 0 views

  • we don’t believe that MOOC’s were established with global engagement in mind. These entities are mostly about access.
  • issues of standardization vs. diversification.
  • MOOC’s do little to foster engagement or cross-cultural understanding, and in most cases don’t offer students a credential. By promoting centralized knowledge production, MOOC’s limit the spillover effects that can help build the academic infrastructure of developing nations.
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  • They strengthen the ivory towers by enabling a few elite institutions to broadcast their star courses to the masses from the comfort of their protected perches.
  • MOOC’s pose potential barriers to fostering global awareness and providing diverse educational experiences
  • universities as multinational entities
  • an exchange of people and an immersion in different cultural experiences.
  • a homogenizing effect that makes this sort of engagement unlikely.
  • transform higher education’s organizational structures,
  • being locally embedded enhances the opportunity for there to be local engagement, local knowledge spillover, and an overall improvement in a nation’s educational sector
  • it risks diminishing both the diversification of the higher-education sector and the advancement of globally engaged students and institutions.
Christopher Sessums

Into the Future With MOOC's - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    "burgeoning educational form"
Christopher Sessums

Bebop is totally rocksteady | Teleogistic - 0 views

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    Bebop is an aggregator for Open Educational Resources, or OERs. 'OER' is a term of art among open education folks, referring to learning resources that are available for free use, under an open license. 
Christopher Sessums

Will MOOC's Take Down Branch Campuses? We Don't Think So - WorldWise - The Chronicle of... - 0 views

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    "Access to online learning is available just about anywhere, and economies of scale as represented by the MOOC's can make education incredibly inexpensive."
Christopher Sessums

Networks, the rate of profit and institutionalising MOOCs | Richard Hall's Space - 0 views

  • MOOCs, regardless of underlying ideology, are essentially a platform. Numerous opportunities exist for the development of an ecosystem for specialized functionality in the same way that Facebook, iTunes, and Twitter created an ecosystem for app innovation
  • while MOOCs and the open education movement generally may not achieve everything – the democratisation of education, or the freeing of the world’s knowledge – they can achieve something. They can open up good teaching and interesting curricula to new groups of learners; they can help draw students into higher education who might otherwise not have ventured there; they can engage unprecedented numbers; and they can be a vehicle to continue to push at our collective notions of what constitutes the educational project.
Christopher Sessums

Stanford's open courses raise questions about true value of elite education | Inside Hi... - 0 views

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    . "If individual professors can begin to certify student competence, that begins to unravel the entire fabric of the institution itself."
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