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sheryl barnes

Coursera forced to call off a MOOC amid complaints about the course | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    Barbara Parmenter & I were both enrolled in this course. I thought it was a mess from the start (the groups issue was the least of it, the pedagogy & organization was lacking, IMHO), interesting to see that it crashed & burned somewhat spectacularly.
sheryl barnes

Treating Higher Ed's 'Cost Disease' With Supersize Online Courses - Technology - The Ch... - 0 views

  • Her approach brings together faculty subject experts, learning researchers, and software engineers to build open online courses grounded in the science of how people learn
  • education equivalent of Super Bowl ads: expensively built online course materials, cheaply available to the masses
sheryl barnes

Enrollment in Online Courses Increases at the Highest Rate Ever - Wired Campus - The Ch... - 0 views

  • new regulations include a pending “gainful employment” rule
  • Nearly thirty percent of all college and university students now take at least one course online
sheryl barnes

The Ed Techie: Is Uniglu what I need? - 0 views

  • Tom is a lecturer at Strummer University in French Language. He wants his students to get used to engaging in online audio/video discussions, capturing mobile input. He has distance as well as campus based students so wants something asynchronous. Seesmic seems to be ideal. But rather than tell his students to sign up there and swap ids, he just wants them to be able to use it as a suite of tools. If they decide to go there, it will be already configured for them. So he speaks to his IT services dept. who tell him that Seesmic is one of the 2138 applications that are listed in the Uniglu directory. This means they are trusted and are capable of accepting university data. They pass the secure data to the Seesmic API which automatically creates accounts for all the students, using their OpenID and preferred user names. It adds in all the students in the cohort as Followers and Following.Similarly, in the course wiki, Tom is using Wetpaint. This also adds in all the students, and also sets up Tom and the two course assistants as moderators. The access to the wiki is set to registered only (ie the course cohort only, not public) which is the default option when it is available.
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    Some really interesting ideas here, related to our LMS project.
sheryl barnes

Udemy - Academy of You | Find and Create Online Courses - Teach and Learn Online - 0 views

shared by sheryl barnes on 17 May 10 - Cached
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    Free online platform for creating online learning/course quickly - looks very impressive. 2min intro video.
sheryl barnes

'Open Teaching': When the World Is Welcome in the Online Classroom - Technology - The C... - 0 views

  • We have to get away from this whole idea that universities own learning
  • Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC
  • privacy
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  • make sure the crowd behaves
  • "I as a learner had to take responsibility. I had to take control of that learning process way more than I've had to do in any traditional type of course, whether it's face-to-face or online."
  • hacking the format of a class
  • setting a learning context
sheryl barnes

JOLT - Journal of Online Learning and Teaching - 0 views

  • outlines how one university uses Web Camps throughout the year to not only meet the growing demand for online learning but also improve the quality of courses being developed
  • weeklong
  • workshops blend short lectures and demonstrations with significant blocks of time for camp participants to practice skills and techniques and work on developing their actual course
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  • peer support and dialogue between faculty
sheryl barnes

New Music Technology Program at Carnegie Mellon U. - Chronicle.com - 0 views

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    Exciting and innovative new program that includes courses from the College of Fine Arts, the Carnegie Institute of Technology, and the School of Computer Science. From Wired Campus.
sheryl barnes

Wired Campus: Randy Bass and Bret Eynon: Still Moving From Teaching to Learni... - 0 views

  • A key to this change is shifting the unit of analysis from blocks of information delivered through courses to something quite different, namely the development of the learner over time, inside and outside the classroom
  • I like to think that we are not teaching subjects but subjectivities: ways of approaching, understanding, and interacting with the world
  • series of intermediate thinking processes that characterize flexible thinking
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  • our earnest but often fragmented efforts at thinking about our curricula are not sufficiently broad to live up to our aspirations about the way the pieces should all fit together
  • technologies built around isolated “courses” may ultimately be of limited value in a learning paradigm
  • we need to do much more experimentation with learner-focused technologies and pedagogies
  • they are used to being pushed in a structured way and it takes half the semester to get them to truly work independently
sheryl barnes

Building An Online Learning Community by Kevin Wilcoxon : Learning Solutions Magazine - 0 views

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    How can an instructional designer (ID) leverage social interaction online to engage learners, increase exchange and dialogue, and get better results, without losing the purposeful focus provided by an instructor or traditional course content and structure? Many IDs are intrigued by the potential of communal experiences online, but there is a great deal of uncertainty about how to proceed. Here are a couple of cases that you may find interesting. Afterward, I offer a roadmap for producing similar results.
sheryl barnes

Hybrid Courses: Welcome - 0 views

shared by sheryl barnes on 30 Aug 12 - Cached
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    Great resource!
sheryl barnes

Conducting Your Midterm Evaluations Publicly with Google Docs - ProfHacker - The Chroni... - 0 views

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    Great ideas (in the article & the comments) for lightweight mid-term course evaluations.
Gina Siesing

Udutu - Create and distribute SCORM-compliant "courses"/simulations - 0 views

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    Free tool. Looks interesting
sheryl barnes

Solutions for Dealing with Copyrighted Materials in an Open Access Course - ProfHacker ... - 0 views

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    Interesting issues raised here & interesting comments...
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