Wcel_Team

Post showing better outcomes for students who had access to recorded lectures.

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

Being Open - grant applications in the open from Jim Groom.

The questions that are asked about every new technology - and the one word answers that are generally all that are required. An XKCD classic.

Thrun tries moocs for 18 months then decides Udacity should be doing small vocational courses instead.

Google wins the case to scan the worlds books.

Interesting look at the difference between f2f and online/flipped classes and why any chorus complaining that online doesn't have the human impact is a red herring. Also uses Mazur's thresholds as an example.

digital visitors and digital residents

Excellent piece by Terry Anderson on the fall out from Thrun's elitist about turns and why one swallow a Spring does not make.

Overview of some current eportfolio themes.

Interesting post on globality of cCoursera.

Excellent piece on the meta-rhetoric surrounding the demise of (Thrun's) Moocs.

Account of the development of the Edinburgh Moocs. Required watching to get an understanding of the backstage rationale rather than the Coursera shop window view.

Schuman's piece deriding the Mooc movement based on Thrun's 'pivot'. It's crap journalism but it's the article getting all the comments. As an academic maybe she should read Hattie before bigging up her own contribution to learning.

Moocs for PD

More Harold Jarche on why social connection is important.

Aimed at schools but points could be reworded for HE.

"The University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development has saved students $145,000 on textbooks over three semesters through its iPad initiative and 140-volume open textbook library, the Minnesota Daily reported earlier this month."