No, the 'College Bubble' Isn't Popping - 1 views
Opportunities and Predictions, 2014 A.D. - 3 views
Clay Shirky Comes Not to Praise Education, but to Bury It | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
Spooked by MOOCs: UVA tip-toes into online education | The Hook - Charlottesville's wee... - 0 views
Easing into MOOCs | eLearning Landscape - 0 views
Managing a 'seismic shift' | Harvard Gazette - 0 views
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""We do not face a choice between tradition and change, between the familiar and the new. We face an opportunity and an imperative both to embrace thoughtful change and to affirm our core values in ways that fulfill this extraordinary university's enduring promise to its students and to the world.""
Conner: Confrontational education vs. content delivery - Richmond Times-Dispatch: Guest... - 2 views
Among other things, a Latour MOOC? | stevendkrause.com - 1 views
Udacity's Sebastian Thrun, Godfather Of Free Online Education, Changes Course | Fast Co... - 1 views
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""We were initially torn between collaborating with universities and working outside the world of college," Thrun tells me. The San Jose State pilot offered the answer. "These were students from difficult neighborhoods, without good access to computers, and with all kinds of challenges in their lives," he says. "It's a group for which this medium is not a good fit.""
Purdue NExT online learning program set to debut - 0 views
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Purdue NExT online learning program set to debut: http://t.co/CpezXKRsKS #elearning #highered #onlinelearning #xlearning
U. of Florida Online Bachelor's Programs Win State Approval - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 0 views
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"The online offerings will also save students money. Online tuition for in-state students is capped by state law at 75 percent of what students attending classes in person pay-which will come to $112 per credit hour-while students from other states will pay "market rates" in the vicinity of $450 to $500 per credit hour, the university says."
Wrapping a MOOC: A Case Study in Blended Learning - 0 views
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"Students appreciated the MOOC's ability to support structured, self-paced learning. Students often watched the short (10-to-15-minute) lecture videos at double speed with the captions turned on, at times that fit the students' schedules. Students described Andrew Ng as a highly effective lecturer, which added to the value of the lecture videos. Students did not actively participate in the discussion forums provided by the MOOC, choosing instead to use each other and Professor Fisher as resources when they needed help with the material. Occasionally, a student with a specific question would check to see if that question had already been asked and answered in the forums. It often was, and so the forums were a study resource for the students even if they didn't post to the forums themselves. Doug's students appreciated the in-class active learning facilitated by the "flipped" approach. By shifting explanatory lectures outside of class, class time was made available for more discussion, interaction, and application of that material. The students described Doug's role as "facilitator," guiding class discussions and making sure that every student understood the material. The biggest challenge identified by the students was a misalignment between the MOOC material and the additional readings Doug provided. These readings took the students beyond the introductory ideas presented in the MOOC, focusing on recent and seminar research in the field. The readings weren't designed for novices in the field, as Andrew Ng's lecture videos were, and they required "a different kind of learning," as one student put it. Nor did the readings always build on the week's MOOC content in clear ways."
Colleges prepare to sacrifice the queen | Bryan Alexander - 2 views
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"To repeat: I do not see the queen sacrifice as a desirable move for American higher education. I do not relish the reduction of programs, nor the devastation inflicted on the lives of faculty. But this seems to be a strategy colleges and universities can choose in our current climate, and we must discuss it openly."