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MOOCs are not the only ones that offer on-demand learning today. UC Santa Cruz Extension’s international program , for example, offers full-time certificate programs to students from over 30 countries. The good news is that many continuing education programs are building on their legacies and stepping up.
In the background knowledge-building phase of learning, for example. Or in a “flipped classroom” setting where the “lecture” is designed to be consumed at the student’s own pace (using viewing strategies , for example). Scenario-basedlearning. Game-basedlearning.
Despite all the promises of education technology in transforming how students learn, change has been, at best, incremental. Bold claims have been made in the past decade about personalized learning, automated assessments and massive open online courses (MOOCs).
Rethinking How Schools Work: Another trend educators have long talked about is the need to make learning more interdisciplinary, interactive and student-driven. Technology could be a productive part of this shift by changing where and how students engage with learning.
When the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman toured the US recently, he hung out with Mark Zuckerberg , Jeff Bezos , and Sergey Brin , for example. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via Edsurge : “5 Ways MOOC -Based Degrees Are Different From Other Online Degrees.”
I picked the topic as a clear example of a myth that soared high and crashed hard. Then I asked participants to think about lessons learned from puncturing that myth. Myth 4: MOOCS will transform everything. One chimed in with admiration for the Modern Poetry MOOC. And they fizzled. Folks mentioned adjuncts.
That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.
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