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Nigel Robertson

Stanford announces 16 free online courses for fall quarter - 0 views

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    Ignore the start about Stanford pioneering moocs. Notes that they have developed 2 new platforms for running their moocs, one of which supports group work.
Nigel Robertson

Stanford Class2Go - Coming Soon - 0 views

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    Stanfords open source learning platform - although this seems like a page of blah and can't find a download link or access to the code...
Stephen Bright

Stanford Unveils Free Platform To Run Your Own Online Courses - 0 views

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    Stanford has unveiled a free online open source platform for running MOOCs called Class2Go.
Stephen Bright

Stanford teams up with edX to build online learning platform | opensource.com - 0 views

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    Class2Go is an open source platform(LMS?) is to be integrated with the edX platform and released on Github from June 1 2013. Will be interesting to see what its like...
Nigel Robertson

Stanford-Online/class2go · GitHub - 0 views

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    The code for Stanford's Class2Go platform.
Tracey Morgan

Beware of the High Cost of 'Free' Online Courses - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "That the acronym MOOCs rhymes with "nukes" seems apt. Massive open online courses, or MOOCs - led by two profit-making start-ups, Coursera and Udacity, founded by entrepreneurial Stanford professors - are a new disruptive force in education. "
Nigel Robertson

Class Central * A complete list of free online courses offered by Stanford's Coursera, ... - 0 views

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    Coursera & Udacity courses
Stephen Bright

Not All Online Students Are the Same: A Summary of Stanford's MOOC User Study - moocnew... - 0 views

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    Different tracks online students take with MOOCs e.g. do the bits which clear up the muddy points in the topic, take the course because the professor is famous, want to find out what MOOCs are like etc. These are the students lumped together as 'drop-outs' and unpacking their experience shows useful learning takes place, but they don't complete the course.
Nigel Robertson

Design with Learning in Mind - 0 views

  • * Short, directed learning segments-Chunk-ability * Ability to repeat and review content-Repeat-ability * Ability to stop and resume without having to start all over-Pause-ability * Clear, direct instructions-Understand-ability
  • we lead students rather than dispense knowledge to them. We become the bridge between students and content rather than the source of the content. It is a perhaps subtle change but nevertheless important because it means taking on different responsibilities.
  • Strategies that support this shift in perspective include having the students moderate discussion forums, prepare concept summaries and examples for other students, and assume greater responsibility as frontline moderators for the course (Boettcher, 2007).
Nigel Robertson

Students Find Free Online Lectures Better Than What They're Paying For - Technology - T... - 0 views

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    3 Case studies on the value of Open Educational Resources citing MIT, Yale and Stanford as sites students are using to support their learning elsewhere.
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