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Roger Harrison

Will MOOC Technology Break the Education Cartel? « Educational Technology Debate - 0 views

  • Talk about giving the people what they want. It’s been compared to the introduction of self-serve in grocery stores in the 70’s and 80’s whereby a digitally-accessible education sees people picking and choosing their own learning rather than waiting for a ‘grocer’ to assemble it for them.
  • developing countries where university-level education is not universally accessible, it means something even more – being able to study at all, and world-class courses at that. AfterSchoolAfrica.com has a good summary here if you need a quick overview of the history of MOOCs so far by the way.
  • Once flexible and even user-generated learning content embedded in MOOC’s
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  • Can we actually trust people to choose their own education like they choose toothbrushes
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    great historical comparisions
Roger Harrison

Why universities should acquire - and teach - digital literacy - 0 views

  • It makes sense that universities should be nurturing students' familiarity with technology, encouraging its use in teaching and learning, and paying attention to developing broader digital literacy skills.
  • Lecturers (who are powerful role models for students) can be very resistant to adopting new digital teaching practices, and will vary in their ability to engage with the online world. Few universities seem to have adopted a digital literacy agenda in a widespread or meaningful way.
  • Additional layers of digital know-how can to be added as the student moves to a deeper lever of expertise
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  • They can practise working with feedback, and conversing in an iterative loop.
  • Once time and brainpower are freed up from memorising, will other skills come into play, bringing hitherto unimagined benefits?
  • Current undergraduates have never known a life without the internet – it is the glue that holds their personal and social lives together.
Roger Harrison

Debate about online learning: E-mails show U.Va. board wanted a big online push | Insid... - 0 views

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      scroll down to see the responses and watch the heated exchanges
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    an amazing exchange of HARSH responses about the merits or non of elearning
Roger Harrison

Institute of Learning Innovation - formerly Beyond Distance Research Alliance - Univers... - 0 views

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    This is where Gilly Salomon is based, with Univ Leicester
Roger Harrison

Selecting meaningful #socialmedia tools for a #MOOC or #PLN - 0 views

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    examples of some social media tools for education
Roger Harrison

Lessons learned from MITx's prototype course - MIT News Office - 0 views

  • it’s as many students as might take the course in 40 years at MIT.”
  • 160 countries
Roger Harrison

Learner experiences of e-Learning: Phase 2 : JISC - 0 views

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      the pack contains some very helpful and easy to read and relevant information for the MPH
Roger Harrison

Study of UK Online Learning - HEFCE - 0 views

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      the full report contains one or two statements that might be helpful especially about the need for institutions to work in greater collaboration with others to best support and develop TEL
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