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Keith Hamon

What You Need to Know About MOOCs - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    Colleges and professors have rushed to try a new form of online teaching known as MOOCs-short for "massive open online courses." The courses raise questions about the future of teaching, the value of a degree, and the effect technology will have on how colleges operate. Struggling to make sense of it all? On this page you'll find highlights from The Chronicle's coverage of MOOCs.
Keith Hamon

Brainstorm in Progress: Why MOOCs Work - 2 views

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    For Connectivism, the medium is the message - teaching Connectivism any other way than a MOOC is as ridiculous as buying a book about free, open text books from Amazon.Com. I hope that the critics of MOOCs take the time to actually take a course, even as a lurker - they will gain immensely from the experience, and who knows? They might even learn something.
Keith Hamon

Online Educational Delivery Models: A Descriptive View (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu - 1 views

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    Although there has been a long history of distance education, the creation of online education occurred just over a decade and a half ago-a relatively short time in academic terms. Early course delivery via the web had started by 1994, soon followed by a more structured approach using the new category of course management systems.1 Since that time, online education has slowly but steadily grown in popularity, to the point that in the fall of 2010, almost one-third of U.S. postsecondary students were taking at least one course online.2 Fast forward to 2012: a new concept called Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is generating widespread interest in higher education circles. Most significantly, it has opened up strategic discussions in higher education cabinets and boardrooms about online education. Stanford, MIT, Harvard, the University of California-Berkeley, and others have thrown their support-in terms of investment, resources, and presidential backing-behind the transformative power of MOOCs and online education. National media outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and The Atlantic are touting what David Brooks has called "the campus tsunami" of online education.
Keith Hamon

American Council on Education Recommends 5 MOOCs for Credit - Technology - The Chronicl... - 0 views

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    In what could be a major step toward bridging the gap between massive open online courses and the credentialing system that they are supposed to "disrupt," the American Council on Education on Thursday endorsed five MOOCs for credit.
Thomas Clancy

Reflections on the Knowledge Society » Summative evaluation of MOOCs - 0 views

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    Not about writing, but about how we are (1) trying to add information to and (2) trying to use information from the enormous "knowledge bubble" [my term] that we are seeing created by each MOOC.
Keith Hamon

Warming Up to MOOC's - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 3 views

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    How one professor uses a MOOC and its resources to flip his own classes.
Keith Hamon

Shimon Schocken: The self-organizing computer course | Video on TED.com - 0 views

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    Shimon Schocken and Noam Nisan developed a curriculum for their students to build a computer, piece by piece. When they put the course online -- giving away the tools, simulators, chip specifications and other building blocks -- they were surprised that thousands jumped at the opportunity to learn, working independently as well as organizing their own classes in the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). A call to forget about grades and tap into the self-motivation to learn.
Keith Hamon

http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7078.pdf - 0 views

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    An introduction to massive, open, online courses (MOOC) by EDUCAUSE.
Thomas Clancy

MOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Massive Open Online Course -- still intend to do something of this nature for the final year of our QEP program 2012-2013.
Thomas Clancy

Open Online Courses: Higher Education of the Future? - The Network: Cisco's Technology ... - 1 views

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    Sounds like MOOCs have a bright future and are here to stay!!
Thomas Clancy

Hype Cycle Research Methodology | Gartner Inc. - 0 views

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    This chart could apply to MOOCs or to any innovation that we bring to our teachers and that they bring to their classrooms.
Keith Hamon

Reflections on open courses « Connectivism - 0 views

  • MOOCs reduce barriers to information access and to the dialogue that permits individuals (and society) to grow knowledge.
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      We have yet to truly explore this reduction of barriers to information access, but it is emerging before our eyes. When lectures by Nobel-prize physicists and writers are online for free, then what do we local physics and English teachers have to offer our classrooms? We need to think through that.
  • Knowledge is a mashup. Many people contribute. Many different forums are used. Multiple media permit varied and nuanced expressions of knowledge. And, because the information base (which is required for knowledge formation) changes so rapidly, being properly connected to the right people and information is vitally important.
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      This captures nicely the shift from learning as a solitary activity within the individual mind to learning as a networked, interconnected activity within a personal learning network.
  • MOOCs share the process of knowledge work – facilitators model and display sensemaking and wayfinding in their discipline. They respond to critics, to challenges from participants in the course. Instead of sharing only their knowledge (as is done in a university course) they share their sensemaking habits and their thinking processes with participants. Epistemology is augmented with ontology.
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      Online, our knowledge-making becomes explicit, and we shift from traditional teaching methods back to older apprenticeship methods. We let our students see us struggle to create new knowledge out of data and experience.
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      This suggests some of the new kinds of value that teachers can bring to their local classes.
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    Siemens' thoughts about the impact of open courses on learning and the Academy.
Keith Hamon

Between the By-Road and the Main Road: Bold Schools: Part I - Learner as Knowmad - 0 views

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    When we conceive of learner as knowmad, the traditional roles assigned to teacher and student become less relevant, necessary, and linear.  The knowmad is mobile and learns with anybody, anywhere, anytime.  As such, the place we now know as school may be too small and perhaps unable to contain the range of learning engagements necessary for those with nomadic tendencies.  Rather, think of the extended community--one that is physical, virtual, and blended-- as potential learning spaces that our knowmadic traveler composes, accesses, participates in, abandons, and changes.
Keith Hamon

http://www.open.ac.uk/personalpages/mike.sharples/Reports/Innovating_Pedagogy_report_Ju... - 2 views

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    This series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. The first report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education.
Keith Hamon

The Wild World of Massively Open Online Courses « Unlimited Magazine - 1 views

  • “There’s this notion that technology is networked and social. It does alter the power relationship between the educator and the learner, a learner has more autonomy, they have more control. The expectation that you wait on the teacher to create everything for you and to tell you what to do is false.”
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      This is perhaps the practical heart of Connectivism: that the world is networked and that the learner is at the center of their own personal learning network.
  • “At the beginning, we had quite a number of students feeling quite overwhelmed because you would get 200 or 300 posts going into a discussion forum per day and that’s just about impossible to follow,” Siemens says.
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      PLNs must have filters and aggregators to help us manage the massive flow of information in MOOCs.
  • Even if students in massively open online courses master the technology and overcome their virtual stage fright, a third problem remains: how to recognize the value of a learning experience that isn’t for credit.
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      Validation remains a very sticky issue for online learning and for PLNs. However, I'm not sure the resolution will be to find a method for online validation, redefinition of validation, or a mixture of both.
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  • It’s a question that proponents of online education continue to grapple with. Even if a student in an open course gains from their experience, there is no guarantee that the boss, or a potential employer, will recognize their learning without a certificate or other official, institution-approved record to prove it.
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    With advancing online tools innovative educators are examining new ways to break out of this one-to-many model of education, through a concept called massively open online courses. The idea is to use open-source learning tools to make courses transparent and open to all, harnessing the knowledge of anyone who is interested in a topic.
Keith Hamon

Connected Knowledge, collective learning - 0 views

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    A slideshow about connected knowledge and collective learning.
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