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Online Courses - Possibilities and Pitfalls - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 29 Jan 13
     
    Reaction to Friedman.
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Here a MOOC, There a MOOC: But Will It Work for Freshman Composition? - Wired Campus - ... - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 25 Jan 13
     
    Deals with one of the issues we identified as something MOOCs didn't seem suited for teaching, writing.
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Should professors be replaced by a computer screen? - Changing Higher Education - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 18 Jan 13
     
    "My concern is that in most cases the online initiatives are not being done in a way that incorporates the online education into the educational mission of the institution - it is a financial, not educational advance."
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California looks at MOOCs in online push | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 16 Jan 13
     
    "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."
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Turning In to the Skid | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 16 Jan 13
     
    "Students in the blended class did better than students in the traditional class.  They also did better than students in pure MOOCs."
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Connected Learning Research Network: Researchers Recommend Core Changes in Education | ... - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 15 Jan 13
     
    "Close the gap between the no-frills learning that too often happens in-school and the interactive, hands-on learning that usually takes place out of school. Take advantage of the Internet's ability to help youth develop knowledge, expertise, skills and important new literacies. Use digital technology to combat the increasing reality of the haves and have-nots in education."
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Udacity, San Jose State University offer online classes for credit | Internet & Media -... - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 30 Jan 13
     
    Remedial classes for credit at a cost of $150.
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Free Online Courses for College Credit Toward A Degree | MOOC2Degree.com - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 30 Jan 13
     
    Two Ohio schools are participants in this program.
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No Child Left Standing | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 11 Feb 13
     
    Response to "A Warning to College Profs from a High School Teacher."
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Should algebra be in curriculum? Why math protects us from the unscrupulous. - Slate Ma... - 0 views

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shared by Amyaz Moledina on 11 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • 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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Online Education Is Replacing Physical Colleges At A Crazy Fast Pace | TechCrunch - 0 views

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  • Jon Breitenbucher on 11 Feb 13
     
    More relevant to the Massively Open Online Community courses (MOOCs) being piloted in higher education, a team of researchers from that replacing a physics teacher with lectures from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist nearly doubled test scores [PDF] http://www.um.es/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=c538d7e7-52a4-4f9a-93c7-92ac04c80b06&groupId=115466 
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