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Sugata Mitra (TED talks and hole-in-the-wall computer innovator) critiques traditonal 'pencil and paper' exams and learning and gives an alternative which is (I think) a problem-based learning approach which he calls SOLE (Self-organised learning environment). 

Critique of the recent flurry around the 'Learners bill of rights' and placing it in a colonial framework.

Puff piece by Anya Kamenetz on Coursera's move into the school sector. Would have expected something more in depth to critique this.

Leigh critiques the idea of resources driving open education.

critique of MOOcs and the direction MOOCs will take us in especially in higher education

"Feedback, group work and a visible papertrail are all effortless gains. Display student work for class discussion, comment on student posts as feedback; set homework to post short peer critiques; devise project tasks requiring reading multiple peers' work and synthesising an overview with linked references."

"Daphne Koller, one of the two founders of Coursera, describes some of the key features of the Coursera MOOCs, and the lessons she has learned to date about teaching and learning from these courses. The video is well worth watching, just for this."

Tony Bates critique of Coursera and Koller's take on Moocs.

Critique of Udacity statistics course - it seems to be poor quality on a whole range of levels

Notes from Audrey's keynote at OpenEd13 critiquing open education.

As we increasingly move toward an environment of instant and infinite information, it becomes less important for students to know, memorize, or recall information, and more important for them to be able to find, sort, analyze, share, discuss, critique, and create information. They need to move from being simply knowledgeable to being knowledge-able.

The critique of Moodle direction by Donald Clark.

Critique of the Khan Academy model inasmuch as who has told the teachers what to do with the freed up class time?

A critique of the 70-20-10 workplace learning model, suggesting that the formal part can strongly influence the ability to learn in the informal part.

"Our Space is a set of curricular materials designed to encourage high school students to reflect on the ethical dimensions of their participation in new media environments. Through role-playing activities and reflective exercises, students are asked to consider the ethical responsibilities of other people, and whether and how they behave ethically themselves online. These issues are raised in relation to five core themes that are highly relevant online: identity, privacy, authorship and ownership, credibility, and participation. For more information, download the Introduction to Our Space [pdf], FAQ [pdf], and Road Map [pdf]. All curricular units and lessons are free and available for download below. The full casebook [pdf - 133MB] can be downloaded using the link at the bottom of the page." Critiqued by @downes for not addressing the issue properly "This is "a set of curricular materials designed to encourage high school students to reflect on the ethical dimensions of their participation in new media environments." The content divides into five major subject areas: participation, identity, privacy, credibility, and authorship and ownership. I'm not sure these are the top five things I would list when thinking of ethical dimensions of new media environments. While it's useful that there is a section on flamers, lurkers and mentors I think there should be something about hate, racism and bulling. And while a section on credibility is a good idea, it should be based on the principles of reason and inference, not outrageously bad definitions like this: "Networking-the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information." And this: "Collective intelligence-evidence that participants in knowledge communities pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal." Wow, those are just wrong. Maybe I need to review this and criticize it more closely."

Mark Brown reminds us not to get carried away extolling the power of technology in a post based around Neil Selwyn's critiques of technological determinism.

Critique of telling kids to have a growth mindset.

Doesn't quite get it is my immediate response. Suifa John Mak has to bring in the first mention of George & Stephen in the comments!

Article wondering about the lightness of offerings in the Mooc space. 1 comment notes the lightness of the content too.