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I joined Audrey Watters, Philipp Schmidt, Stephen Downes, and Jeremy Friedberg in Toronto last week, to give a talk at Digital Learning Reimagined, an event hosted and organized by Ryerson University's Chang School. Via ColinHickie 
elearning at eCampus ULg's curator insight,
February 26, 2016 4:31 AM
Nice visual and nice summarising as well
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Invasion of the MOOCs: The Promise and Perils of Massive Open Online Courses is one of the first collections of essays about the phenomenon of “Massive Online Open Courses.” Unlike accounts in the mainstream media and educational press, Invasion of the MOOCs is not written from the perspective of removed administrators, would-be education entrepreneurs/venture capitalists, or political pundits. Rather, this collection of essays comes from faculty who developed and taught MOOCs in 2012 and 2013, students who participated in those MOOCs, and academics and observers who have first hand experience with MOOCs and higher education. These twenty-one essays reflect the complexity of the very definition of what is (and what might in the near future be) a “MOOC,” along with perspectives and opinions that move far beyond the polarizing debate about MOOCs that has occupied the media in previous accounts. Toward that end, Invasion of the MOOCs reflects a wide variety of impressions about MOOCs from the most recent past and projects possibilities about MOOCs for the not so distant future. Via Peter B. Sloep
Theophilus's curator insight,
April 3, 2014 3:49 AM
Great lessons to learn for our South African Higher Education institutions who are embarking on e-learning and online-course alternatives. We do not have to commit the same mistakes. |
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It is 1873. Something unique is about to happen. A steam-train gathers speed in the background. Carriages on cobbled streets. In a dark room children sleep. In another room, a man reads a newspaper. In the kitchen a woman sits. She takes out a notebook, envelope, stamp and a package of brown paper containing a book and and a letter. She saves the string and paper from the package in a kitchen drawer and opens the book with bright eyes and begins to read. The book is “Epochs of Modern History” by Edward E. Morris. Via ColinHickie
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I had an intense relationship with MOOCs in 2014. As all intense “relationships”, I loved them, hated them, invested a lot of time on them, or abandon them. MOOCs surprised me with new knowledge (i.e. gamification), or satisfied my pedagogical learning needs (i.e. EdTech and blended learning). I defended MOOCs against those who desperately wanted them to fail based on their high dropout rate, but also, I raised my voice against those MOOCs that experimented with students and neglected their needs. Via Ramón Talavera Franco
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MOOCs on the Move: How Coursera Is Disrupting the Traditional Classroom by Knowledge@Wharton, the online business journal of the Wharton School.
Comment: good, sensible interview with Coursera's Daphne Koller, about the difference between xMOOCs and traditional education, about credits and certificates, about (peer) assessment, about the business model. Intesting is her toned-down prediction for where Coursera will be in 10 years time: "I also think that in five to 10 years, from the perspective of the higher education ecosystem, people will look back on the 20th century and say, "I can't believe that we spent so much of our students' time shoveling them into auditoria and having them sit there for 75 minutes while somebody lectured at them." We will all clearly recognize that this is not the best form for getting people to learn material and use it effectively. I think our notion of what makes for a good education will shift drastically. That's right, at least I hope, but that was not the question. I would have loved to hear what she thinks Coursera's or for that matter the MOOCs' role will have been in this. For if we let people watch the sage on the stage through a computer screen rather than in an auditorium, nothing has fundamentally changed. And that is what we need. And there may be room for MOOCs then, or not. (peter sloep, @pbsloep) Via Peter B. Sloep, Peter Mellow
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