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5 Potential Ways MOOCs Will Evolve | Edudemic - 0 views

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  • Most Likely: More Startups, More Schools Offer MOOCs
  • edX has a track record, albeit brief, of partnership and open access. Perfect for a smaller school without a big technology budget. Look for online schools to perhaps form a similar partnership so they can offer MOOCs. The online schools version would likely be powered by a third-party like Udacity or Coursera. Meanwhile, large tech companies and startups alike work to carve out their own niche in the MOOCs landscape. There’s a lot of money to be had in the transition of education so don’t be surprised if this happens no matter what the future holds for MOOCs.
  • Amyaz Moledina on 15 Apr 13
     
    Presents a set of potential directions for MOOC evolution. 
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Study casts doubt on idea that spending more per student leads to better educational ou... - 0 views

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  • Research presented here by researchers from Wabash College -- and based on national data sets -- finds that there may be a minimal relationship between what colleges spend on education and the quality of the education students receive. Further, the research suggests that colleges that spend a fraction of what others do, and operate with much higher student-faculty ratios and greater use of part-time faculty members, may be succeeding educationally as well as their better-financed (and more prestigious) counterparts
  • 45 colleges and universities, most of them liberal arts colleges,
  • good teaching with high quality interactions with faculty," high expectations and academic challenge, interaction with ideas and people different from one's own, and "deep learning" through characteristics identified by the National Survey of Student Engagement.
    • Amyaz Moledina
      Amyaz Moledina on 25 Feb 13
       
      The outcomes variables are as per NSSE
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  • Blaich isolated 10 colleges (he said later that most but not all were liberal arts colleges) that had very similar scores on the good practices related to teaching. Their spending per student, however, ranged from $9,225 to $53,521 (with corresponding tuition rates). Others at the high end of per-student spending were at $44,429 and $34,172. Three other colleges, however, were achieving the same educational impact with spending per student of about $15,000
  • suggest that the quality of instruction from part-timers can be just as high as from full-timers, so maybe the issue is finding the best way to hire and retain them. (He suggested full-year contracts over course-by-course.)
  • Amyaz Moledina on 25 Feb 13
     
    survey shows that colleges (w.liberal arts in sample) that have more spending per students, part time faculty and higher faculty-student ratios, get similar results on the NSSE score. A NSEE variable is "good teaching with high quality interactions with faculty"
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The World's Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Education | Most Innovative Companies 2... - 0 views

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  • Amyaz Moledina on 19 Feb 13
     
    The tide is turing to student assessment.
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Learning in the Open: Networked Student Identities | theory.cribchronicles.com - 0 views

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  • But I believe learning – whether in online social networks or straight from the canon, bound in leather – involves being able to read and make sense of the codes and signals being given off by those you interact with, particularly those you expect to learn from. These are what I refer to when I talk about “legitimacy structures” within academia and networks in the final slide of the presentation above. They are, in a sense, literacies. They’re what I’m stumbling towards when I talk about the networked or digital literacies that MOOCs – if they connect people – help develop.
  • that the filters and structure aren’t the whole challenge: how to translate and signal what I’m learning to two different audiences is also a process I’m going to have to address overtly. Because there are power structures that support and prop up societal views of knowledge that make networked knowledge and practices appear invisible or illegitimate.
  • The lack of face-to-face is not a void, only a lack of literacy
    • Amyaz Moledina
      Amyaz Moledina on 12 Feb 13
       
      I could not have said it better!
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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.
  • 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. 
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Coursera Takes A Big Step Toward Monetization, Now Lets Students Earn "Verified Certifi... - 0 views

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  • Amyaz Moledina on 10 Jan 13
     
    The business model is developing.
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MOOCS, Online Learning, and the Wrong Conversation | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • Amyaz Moledina on 04 Jan 13
     
    the focus of the conversation about MOOCs should be teaching. what do we do best, what can we do better?
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Flipping the Curriculum: Introductory Courses Should Be Just as Good as the Capstone Ex... - 0 views

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  • “flipping the curriculum.” It would call for small classes in the freshman and senior years and larger classes for sophomores and particularly for juniors. The profit that the university makes right now on introductory classes would remain, but just shift to the junior year.
  • Amyaz Moledina on 03 Dec 12
     
    We already do this!
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Free Online Courses to Be Evaluated for Possible College Credit - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Amyaz Moledina on 14 Nov 12
     
    Wow! We did this at the same time!!!! Yep, credit is currency and it will generate the change.....If a students comes in with MOOC and AP credit what happens?
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Textbooks round the world: It ain't necessarily so | The Economist - 0 views

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  • Amyaz Moledina on 18 Oct 12
     
    textbook, policy, propaganda
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A book about education stuff, moods, etc - 0 views

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  • Amyaz Moledina on 10 Oct 12
     
    xEducation is a book that George Siemens, Bonnie Stewart, and Dave Cormier have agreed (and been contracted) to write for Johns Hopkins University Press. We expect the book will be published in mid-2013. Our focus is on sidestepping the rather substantial hype around educational reform, particularly from the technological angle, and present a solid discussion of the scope and nature of higher education (HE) change.
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MOOCs and disruptive innovation: The challenge to HE business models - 0 views

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  • Amyaz Moledina on 10 Oct 12
     
    All industries have to cope with the disruption of the unfolding digital revolution, and education is no exception. This multi-faceted disruption can be seen in the new wave of MOOCs. The arrival of 'massive open online courses' appears to be another tectonic shift in the evolution of higher education and HE internationalisation. MOOCs are free of charge, designed for large numbers of people to take them at once, encourage peer-to-peer learning, and award certificates rather than academic course credit. This article, the first of a short series on disruptive innovation in HE, describes three new start-ups - Coursera, edX and Udacity - and explores the challenges they pose to traditional models of delivery in higher education.
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The Coursera Effect - 0 views

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  • Amyaz Moledina on 10 Oct 12
     
    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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