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Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course | Fast Co... - 0 views

    • Lisa Rosa
       
      Funk-Kolleg
    • Lisa Rosa
       
      . bring this asperger-guy in touch with cultural historical learning theorists
  • In 2001, MIT launched the OpenCourseWare project to digitize notes, homework assignments, and, in some cases, full video lectures for all of the university's courses.
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  • sophisticated pedagogical strategies to keep their users engaged, peppering students with quizzes and gamifying their education with progress meters and badges
    • Lisa Rosa
       
      It's the human dialog which makes the difference, stupid!
  • only 7% of students in this type of class actually make it to the end. (This is even worse than for-profit colleges such as the University of Phoenix, which graduates 17% of its full-time online students, according to the Department of Education.)
  • "The sort of simplistic suggestion that MOOCs are going to disrupt the entire education system is very premature,"
  • He then set about a number of other initiatives to address this thorny problem, including hiring "mentors," many of them former academics looking for a change, to moderate class forums and offer help via live chats
  • He offered college credit
  • A student taking college algebra in person was 52% more likely to pass than one taking a Udacity class
  • "These were students from difficult neighborhoods, without good access to computers, and with all kinds of challenges in their lives," he says. "It's a group for which this medium is not a good fit."
  • Learning, after all, is about more than some concrete set of vocational skills. It is about thinking critically and asking questions, about finding ways to see the world from different points of view rather than one's own. These, I point out, are not skills easily acquired by YouTube video.
  • The Georgia Tech deal isn't really a Georgia Tech deal. It's an AT&T deal."
  • All visionary entrepreneurs must, at some point, find their own sense of romance in the compromises they make to build a profitable business,
    • Lisa Rosa
       
      "Unfortunately, MOOCs, with their compressed timescales, their lack of face-to-face interaction with peers and teachers, and seminars, tend to make this gradual absorption of material far less likely."
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Submissions/Wiki Loves E-textbooks - Wikimania 2014 in London - 1 views

  • Centre for Education Development (a subsidiary of Polish Ministry of Education
  • "Wiki loves e-textbooks"
  • ct "epodręczniki" (e-textbooks)
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  • under CC-BY license
  • written by teams of professional experts from several Polish state universities
  • The idea of "Wiki loves e-textbooks" contest is to encourage Polish Wikipedians to adopt existing multimedia or create original ones for the needs of the textbooks
  • Teams of experts are creating tables with needed media, which are published in Wikipedia and participants of the contest can upload them to Wikimedia Commons using simplified upload wizard
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Open Access and the Humanities - Cambridge Books Online - Cambridge University Press - ... - 3 views

shared by Klaus Meschede on 27 Dec 14 - No Cached
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    freier Download möglich
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Ministry of Education publishes OER ordinance | Iniciativa EA - 0 views

  • that determines that any educational resources paid for by the Ministry, which is to be used for basic education (K-12) should be open educational resources, giving permissions for anyone to “access, use, adapt and distribute at no cost”. It further emphasises the importance of open formats and standards whenever technically viable
  • open licenses for all educational resources produced through the Open University of Brazil program
  • open license for all educational material in a nationwide robotics for education purchase and the use of an open license (for some resources) in the nationwide textbook purchase program
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  • Open Education Initiative (OEI) in partnership with dedicated public servants
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2019_27_Amtliche_Bekanntmachung_OER_Policy.pdf - 0 views

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    OER Policy der Hochschule Reutlingen
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