The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

How to handle a situation in which a parents sends you a DM on Facebook about their child (yes they can…yes it happens). Are they studying new and emerging learning theories like Connectivism that was written and has been around since 2005 and is the foundation to what MOOC s are based on.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

However, I’m not so thrilled about moving directly to commercial systems like Facebook or LinkedIn, due to privacy and ownership concerns. Second,to follow from Marshall McLuhan the Medium is the Pedagogy (first coined by Cousin (2005). What are your views on MOOCs? Steve: Terry, thank you very much. Reference Cousin, G.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 19, 2016

They want what they get on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other informal learning online communities, they want the face-to-face, human element. Joseph Cavanaugh’s research has found that teaching a course online consumes more instructor time than teaching the identical course face-to-face (2005). They want engagement.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ CSU signs deal to record, broadcast classroom lectures,” says the San Francisco Examiner. Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Hires Campbell Brown to Lead News Partnerships Team.” Facebook’s contempt for public education continues.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” “Make MOOCs great again.” ” Speaking of Peter Thiel, “ Mark Zuckerberg : Facebook fake news didn’t sway election,” USA Today reports from the Techonomy conference. million repayment the Education Department demanded the for-profit institution make in 2005,” reports Inside Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. Or MOOCs even. It’s the future of school (and it’s the future of Facebook ). Fads fade, of course.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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