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Texas MOOCs for Credit? - 0 views

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Jon Breitenbucher on 16 Oct 12

U. of Texas aims to use MOOCs to reduce costs, increase completion

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MOOC's Take a Major Step Toward College Credit - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher E... - 0 views

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Jon Breitenbucher on 14 Nov 12

And now people may be getting credit for completing MOOCs.

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MOOC Pre-History | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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Jon Breitenbucher on 06 Jun 13

"On May 19, 1962, the New York Times, in a feature article, congratulated a housewife and mother of two for completing a Bachelor of Science of Arts degree from New York University. That might not seem significant, but Mrs. Cora Gay Carr earned 54 of the 128 credits required for her degree not in an NYU classroom, but by watching television."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"On May 19, 1962, the New York Times, in a feature article, congratulated a housewife and mother of two for completing a Bachelor of Science of Arts degree from New York University. That might not seem significant, but Mrs. Cora Gay Carr earned 54 of the 128 credits required for her degree not in an NYU classroom, but by watching television."</div>

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Coursera Takes a Nuanced View of MOOC Dropout Rates - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of H... - 0 views

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Should algebra be in curriculum? Why math protects us from the unscrupulous. - Slate Ma... - 0 views

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social scientist Andrew Hacker suggested eliminating algebra from the school curriculum as an “onerous stumbling block,” and instead teaching students “how the Consumer Price Index is computed.” What seems to be completely lost on Hacker and authors of similar proposals is that the calculation of the CPI, as well as other evidence-based statistics, is in fact a difficult mathematical problem, which requires deep knowledge of all major branches of mathematics including … advanced algebra.
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Amyaz Moledina on 11 Feb 13

Given the recent article that Grant shared about the quality of students coming in to college, (and the QL Horizons group), this article reinforces that there are multiple critical thinking "literacies" that are under siege.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Given the recent article that Grant shared about the quality of students coming in to college, (and the QL Horizons group), this article reinforces that there are multiple critical thinking "literacies" that are under siege. </div>

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