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Hugo Domingos

The Argument for Free Classes via iTunes - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - 2 views

  • More than 600 schools post lectures to the two-year-old service
  • Apple now says it has about 250,000 individual classes available to the public.
  • with more than 375,000 downloads a week, is Open University,
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  • “We are now reaching people all around the world that, without iTunes U, we never would have touched,” said its vice-chancellor, Martin Bean, formerly the general manager of Microsoft’s education products group
  • Mr. Bean looks at iTunes U and YouTube as free marketing — an opportunity to take “all those active inquiries and those leisure learners and expose them to who we are as a university.
  • Other universities say that limited resources, copyright concerns or the reluctance of old-fashioned professors are keeping them from recording and uploading lectures.
  • The courage comes from taking the next leap of faith. Universities no longer define themselves by their content but the overall experience: the concept, the student support, the tutoring and mentoring, the teaching and learning they get and the quality of the assessment.”
Hugo Domingos

Check out the Future of Moodle Mobile from Moodle HQ | Moodle News - 2 views

  • Compared with some of the already available Mobile Apps for Moodle (http://moodlenews.com/mobile) the official app looks to engage the device’s inherent tools more deeply in order to upload audio, video and images from a mobile handset directly to Moodle, allowing for mobile-specific activities and assessments.  Support for the other standard Moodle features is also implied.
  • The wire-frame mock-ups of the screens look promising
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