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Jon Breitenbucher

Online Education May Make Top Colleges More Elite, Speakers Say - Technology - The Chro... - 0 views

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    "Professors might be surprised by what the data tell them. Eric Mazur, a professor of physics at Harvard, drew murmurs from the crowd-which mostly consisted of Harvard and MIT faculty members-when he showed research indicating that students at a lecture have brain activity roughly equivalent to when they watch television." - this doesn't seem to surprising. There are some other interesting ideas mentioned like "Maybe we could have 100 people register for a seminar," Mr. Rabkin said. The students could work through the first 12 weeks independently and online, "and that teacher can finish the seminar five different times in the course of a 15-week semester, spending the last three weeks with each of those groups of 20."
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    I agree with this brain activity finding. Students constantly come to me and say "I understand what you are saying in class but when you ask me questions outside of class I do not know what to do." They are not paying attention. Even when I teach to the test, the results from online questions are equivalent (I need to check this formally). This has forced me to rely more on solving open ended problems in groups and getting students to write their own answers. So my principles class is turning into a first year problem solving seminar!
Jon Breitenbucher

Online Course Platforms Offer Paid Freelance Gigs to Professors - Wired Campus - The Ch... - 0 views

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    The professor as/is a small business?
Jon Breitenbucher

Essay on what professors can learn from preschool teachers | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    An interesting article to consider as the Faculty's role continues to shift away from content delivery.
Jon Breitenbucher

People who need people. | More or Less Bunk - 0 views

  • But who’s left to teach all those less-than-ideal students at San Jose State? Living, breathing professors. Any administration that’s seriously thinking about signing a license with a MOOC provider to automate the teaching of those students who need living, breathing professors the most will have to think about Thrun’s pivot before it lets the robots take over. If they have their own self interest at heart (let alone the interests of those students), they won’t do it. I think that is something to celebrate. It’s also worth noting the incredible irony here. MOOCs were supposed to be the device that would bring higher education to the masses. However, the masses at San Jose State don’t appear to be ready for the commodified, impersonal higher education that MOOCs offer without the guidance that living, breathing professors provide to people negotiating its rocky shores for the first time. People need people. That means that the only way to open higher education to the masses is to hire more people to teach, either in person or online. Accept no austerity-inspired technological substitutes because bringing quality higher education to the world won’t be easy and it won’t be cheap, but it will be good for the world in the long run.
Jon Breitenbucher

Thoughts on Our First Panel Discussion | Trinity/ACS Exploring MOOCs Relation to Libera... - 0 views

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    Professors' thoughts on MOOCs
Jon Breitenbucher

New Platform Lets Professors Set Prices for Their Online Courses - Technology - The Chr... - 0 views

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    The rogue academic.
Jon Breitenbucher

California looks at MOOCs in online push | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    "San Jose State University on Tuesday announced a deal with Udacity, a major MOOC player, to create a pilot program of three online, entry-level courses that will cost students $150 to take and lead to university-awarded academic credits if passed. San Jose State professors will teach the courses while Udacity contributes the platform and staff support, including mentors who will help track and encourage students' progress."
Jon Breitenbucher

Thomas Friedman is wrong about MOOCs (essay) | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    "Thomas Friedman's latest column "The Professors' Big Stage" is a case in point. His piece on "the MOOCs revolution" is riddled with contradictions, shallow thinking -- and an error in basic arithmetic."
Jon Breitenbucher

The Professors' Big Stage - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Many academics are saying this piece is totally off base. I'll include a couple of posts from Inside Higher Ed that challenge Friedman.
Jon Breitenbucher

Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching - Wired Campus - The Chr... - 0 views

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    Sometimes it is difficult to make the transition from classroom to online as an instructor.
Amyaz Moledina

The Coursera Effect - 0 views

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    The article discusses the online learning website Coursera, which was founded by Stanford University professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller in an attempt to provide free online courses. The services are offered to and taken by students from around world, and Ng and Koller believe that their method is changing traditional standards for lecturing by forcing students to be interactive and engaged during the lecture. Topics include how Coursera will ultimately earn revenue, the economic benefit of online education for top-level universities, and a list of other free online education programs, including EDX, the Minerva Project, and Udacity
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