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gary chinn

MIT Will Offer Certificates to Outside Students Who Take Its Online Courses - Technolog... - 3 views

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technology online mit opened

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  • gary chinn on 19 Dec 11
     
    MIT steps into credentialing world. sounds like they are adding interactive pieces, a la stanford's growing portfolio of courses, but also offering certificates for fee. interesting on many levels.
Cole Camplese

10 Ways Open CourseWare Has Freed Education | MindShift - 1 views

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OCW OER opencourseware

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  • The decision by the MIT faculty in 2001 to allow anyone to use their course content was a seminal move,  one that had a profound effect on democratizing education.
  • ALLOWING CUSTOMIZATION. MIT OCW is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike-Non-Commercial License. That means that teachers and learners are able to share and remix the content that’s available.
  • ENCOURAGING SHARING. Do educators have an ethical responsibility to share? Open CourseWare reminds us that a large part of our role as educators is to share knowledge, and we should work to remove the barriers that make that possible.
Emily Rimland

Steve Hargadon: Live Tuesday Sept. 27th with Cecilia d'Oliveira from MIT's OpenCourseWare - 1 views

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opencourseware

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  • Emily Rimland on 26 Sep 11
     
    Join me Tuesday, September 27th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Cecilia d'Oliveira, Executive Director, OpenCourseWare (OCW) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Cecilia was the technology director for OCW since 2002, and in 2008 was named executive director. She was also a winner of a 2010 WISE Award.
Derek Gittler

Tangled in an endless web of distractions - Boston.com - 2 views

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Distraction Classroom

shared by Derek Gittler on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached
  • “Students are totally shameless about how they use their computers in class,’’ said David Jones, an MIT professor. “I fantasize about having a Wi-Fi jammer in my lecture halls to block access to distractions.’’While MIT has yet to unwire a single lecture hall, some law schools, including the University of Chicago’s, have in recent years blocked wireless access in classrooms to keep students engaged in Socratic discussions instead of their classmates’ Groupon and eBay activitie
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