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Christopher Sessums

Come the Revolution - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "Welcome to the college education revolution. Big breakthroughs happen when what is suddenly possible meets what is desperately necessary. "
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."
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.
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