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Mathieu Plourde

How California's Online Education Pilot Will End College As We Know It - 0 views

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    As someone who has taught large courses at a University of California, I can assure readers that my job could have easily been automated. Most of college-the expansive campuses and large lecture halls-will crumble into ghost towns as budget-strapped schools herd students online.
Mathieu Plourde

Applying the Seven Principles for Good Practice to the Online Classroom - 1 views

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    "Almost 25 years have passed since Chickering and Gamson offered seven principles for good instructional practices in undergraduate education. While the state of undergraduate education has evolved to some degree over that time, I think the seven principles still have a place in today's collegiate classroom. Originally written to communicate best practices for face-to-face instruction, the principles translate well to the online classroom and can help to provide guidance for those of us designing courses to be taught online."
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    ...Just in time!! :)
Mathieu Plourde

MOOCs - Guides at Delaware Division of Libraries - 0 views

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    What do you geek? Here you will find resources to follow your interests with free, open courses at major universities. Browse the resources below or check with the reference librarian for library resources.
Mathieu Plourde

'Binge Learning' is Online Education's Killer App - 1 views

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    "I thought of these facts this past weekend when I tried an online course for the first time. Because I wanted to brush up on my programming skills, I signed up for a Udacity computer science class on Friday. I was drawn in by the fact that there were no deadlines-I could put the class off if I got too busy for it. This concern was somewhat unwarranted, as I had finished half the class by Sunday evening. I realized that I had binged-on a class."
Mathieu Plourde

Open-Education Company Helps Develop Textbook-Free Associate Degree - 0 views

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    Colleges following what the company calls the Textbook Zero model would offer a section using open-education alternatives for every required course and elective needed to earn the degree. Lumen is now testing the model with an unnamed community college on the East Coast, and is also looking for colleges interested in applying the model to general-studies and computer-science degrees.
Mathieu Plourde

Sustainability and MOOCs in Historical Perspective - 1 views

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    "Keynote presentation delivered to Simposio Internacional Estado Actual Y Prospectiva De La Educacion Virtual, Bogota, Colombia. Overview of the historical factors leading to the development of massive open online courses, and discussion of what this history can tell us of the sustainability of MOOCs in the future."
Mathieu Plourde

How could cMOOCs be designed and incorporated under an institutional framework? - 0 views

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    "Should MOOC be designed to support specific personal learning objectives, whilst not compromising the specific course (or commercial) objectives?"
Mathieu Plourde

The Real Digital Change Agent - 0 views

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    "Leveraging the revolutionary potential of digital technology to provide access to the world's best faculty members, this new method of dissemination takes what were once exclusive, limited-access, high-priced resources and puts them online for anyone to learn from, freely. Despite its somewhat goofy acronym, this new model has been embraced, sometimes in the face of faculty objections, because of its democratizing, globalizing potential, as well as its effectiveness in improving an institution's reputation for innovation and excellence. I am, of course, talking about Coapi. If you haven't heard of it, the Coalition of Open Access Policy Institutions, which now comprises more than 40, began in 2011 as a way for colleges to coordinate and advocate for open-access policies, which typically require that all faculty journal publications be made available freely online, whether on a personal Web site, institutional repository, or discipline-specific public archive."
Mathieu Plourde

Ten Years Later: Why Open Educational Resources Have Not Noticeably Affected Higher Edu... - 0 views

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    "Fast-forward to October 2012: OERs have failed to significantly affect the day-to-day teaching of the vast majority of higher education institutions. Traditional textbooks and readings still dominate most teaching venues even though essentially all students are online: Course management systems are used only for the dissemination of syllabi, class notes, general communications, and as a grade book. OERs are out there…somewhere. Why aren't they on campus?"
Mathieu Plourde

The Professors Behind the MOOC Hype - 0 views

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    "His online course drew 28,000 students when it opened last summer, but Sedgewick was not daunted. He had spent hundreds of hours readying the material, devoting as much as two weeks each to recording and fine-tuning videotaped lectures. The preparation itself, he said, was "a full-time job.""
Mathieu Plourde

Cloud-Based LMS Wins Over Abilene Christian University - 0 views

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    "Abilene Christian University (ACU) is in the process of porting all its online course content from Blackboard to Pearson's OpenClass, which will be its new standard come the fall semester."
Mathieu Plourde

Racing the iPad in K12 Education - 0 views

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    And the iPad's future dominance is far from certain. "The iPad is a powerful pedagogical tool, but we are seeing the market take its course. Other companies are now providing competitive alternatives at lower price points," says Brian Lewis, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education.
Mathieu Plourde

You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help. - 1 views

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    The e-mail drill was one of numerous mind-training exercises in a unique class designed to raise students' awareness about how they use their digital tools. Colleges have experimented with short-term social-media blackouts in the past. But Ms. Hill's course, "Information and Contemplation," goes way further. Participants scrutinize their use of technology: how much time they spend with it, how it affects their emotions, how it fragments their attention. They watch videos of themselves multitasking and write guidelines for improving their habits. They also practice meditation-during class-to sharpen their attention.
Mathieu Plourde

Online Learning Ecosystems: What to Make of MOOC Dropout Rates? - 2 views

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    "I'm beginning to think there's a fourth stage, one that I saw a few times at last week's "Multidisciplinary Research for Online Education" (MROE) workshop in Washington, DC. Apparently, when you get together a bunch of people in Stage 3, some of them move to Stage 4: Stage 4 - Maybe all those "dropouts" got just what they wanted out of the course."
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    I am considering a MOOC on Gamification that starts April 1.
Mathieu Plourde

Open Education in the Liberal Arts » Defining Open Education - 0 views

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    Open education is about sharing, reducing barriers and increasing access in education. It includes free and open access to platforms, tools and resources in education (such as learning materials, course materials, videos of lectures, assessment tools, research, study groups, textbooks, etc.). Open education seeks to create a world in which the desire to learn is fully met by the opportunity to do so, where everyone, everywhere is able to access affordable, educationally and culturally appropriate opportunities to gain whatever knowledge or training they desire.
Mathieu Plourde

The MOOC Guide - 2 views

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    The purpose of this document is two-fold: - to offer an online history of the development of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - to use that history to describe major elements of a MOOC
Mathieu Plourde

Coursera Takes a Nuanced View of MOOC Dropout Rates - 0 views

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    "But most students who register for a MOOC have no intention of completing the course, said the company's co-founders, Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng. "Their intent is to explore, find out something about the content, and move on to something else," said Ms. Koller."
Mathieu Plourde

CUCFA President Meister's Open Letter to Coursera Founder Daphne Koller - 0 views

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    A true educational Commons would be a force for reducing academic hierarchy and income inequality. I'm all in favor of that. You say you are too. But is that what you are telling your partners in finance and university administration? Or are you telling them that they can accumulate even more of what they already have-money and prestige-while appearing to be giving it away? I will know my course has been successful when my students understand Coursera's business model behind offering free higher education globally (along with the promise of greater social equality) as an exciting venture capital investment opportunity through which to increase privately-held wealth and lock in existing educational hierarchies.
Mathieu Plourde

Quad-blogging: Promoting Peer-to- Peer Learning in a MOOC - 0 views

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    "We present the concept of quad-blogging, and its potential for facilitating and enhancing peer-to-peer learning in higher education, specifically in a massive open online course (MOOC) by increasing peer engagement, promoting the practice of blogging and fostering the formation of professional learning networks through social media."
Mathieu Plourde

OERs increase access, drop book expenses - 0 views

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    The college, with the cooperation of faculty and students, made a move toward using OERs. The two-year project began in April 2012 and is supported by student technology fees. The goal was to embed OERs into the 10 classes with the highest enrollments and to save students $250,000. A year later, 39 sections of 19 individual classes-from biology, to English, to computer courses-use digital materials rather than traditional textbooks. Faculty isn't required to participate, but the number of teachers using OERs is growing. To date, the college has saved students $266,000.
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