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Cole Camplese

Open SUNY: A Game-Changer in the Making |e-Literate - 0 views

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SUNY online OER MOOC

shared by Cole Camplese on 01 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • In brief, Open SUNY is part of the system’s agenda to expand access to public higher education by leveraging existing programs or experiments already in place at member campuses or at the system level, and it has strong ties to Open Educational Resources (OER) concepts.
  • Open SUNY funding comes from a $18.6m funding from NY2020 legislation, and will eventually cost (according to estimates) $3.35m per year in operations.
  • Some of these are laudable goals (reducing time to degree and overall cost, increase completion rate), but some are ill-defined (improved outcomes) and some are questionable (increased number of online learners as a goal rather than means to a goal, and enhancing the profile). But a deeper problem is lack of discussion on determining which innovations to diffuse and which innovations to keep from diffusing. Perhaps there are plans for evaluating courses and programs, but there are no details available that I can find.
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  • SUNY, of course, is not the place to develop MOOCs, online courses, OER, open courseware or PLAs, so what is important about this announcement? I think the significance lies in SUNY’s scale and SUNY’s approach. SUNY appears to view the Open SUNY program as a method to spread educational innovations throughout one of the largest systems in the country rather than creating a new pilot program or experiment. SUNY has 468,000 students and plans to add 100,000 more. Rather than trying to create a new innovation, the role of the system is to foster innovation and then take the best ideas and make them available to all. Although it’s not getting enough attention, Open SUNY will have an outsized impact on the future of online education in the US. State-wide initiatives, whether driven by the systems or the state government, are becoming one of the biggest factors in how higher education is changing in the US. I suspect that other states will be watching SUNY and adopting this model in part or in whole. Pay attention to Open SUNY – it will matter.
Kate Miffitt

MOOC pedagogy: the challenges of developing for Coursera | ALT Online Newsletter - 0 views

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mooc MOOCs

shared by Kate Miffitt on 26 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • However, some of the most interesting and innovative practices in online education have emerged by challenging these very ideas; loosening institutional control of learning outcomes and assessment criteria, shifting from a focus on content delivery to a foregrounding of process, community and learning networks, and working with more exploratory assessment methods – digital and multimodal assignments, peer assessment and group assignments, for example.
  • It seems at present that sustained and personal engagement on the part of tutors with course participants is impossible in such a context, and Coursera themselves recommend an approach that borders on course automation.
  • We want to explore how a MOOC pedagogy might work with a construction of the teacher that has an immediacy that can succeed at scale.
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  • he University of Edinburgh’s partnership with Coursera presents us with an opportunity to research the new and sometimes uncomfortable territory that the MOOC foregrounds, a prospect that will allow us to engage meaningfully, critically, and productively with the shifting landscapes of open education
  • We are attempting to develop a course which initiates reading, critical viewing of films and structured discussion as the primary pedagogical activities.
  • Participatory practices and customs in the wider social web are integral to this approach, and we’re interested in how the pedagogical modes operating within platforms like Coursera can be productively extended to create more open learning spaces, integrating our work with public services and sites beyond the platform.
Kate Miffitt

The dirty little secret of online learning: Students are bored and dropping out - Quartz - 0 views

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mooc MOOCs

shared by Kate Miffitt on 26 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • If they do that, they’ll see that digital learning needs to become much more mobile, personal and social.
  • mixes short videos and frequent assessments with facilitated group projects, asynchronous collaboration and innovative tools designed specifically to drive participation
  • Mobile content, then, needs to be “bite-sized,” visually stimulating and interactive.
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  • But, he adds, “you can use technology to personalize the instruction and target what their individual needs are. You can fill those gaps, and when you do that and when you empower students to do that … the learning is so much more productive.”
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