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Participants in my current free online course, The Goal-Minded Teacher MOOC ( #EduGoalsMOOC ), designed learning missions this past week to inspire their learners. Mission: Create an ebook for a classmate. Students are presented with a choice of digital missions with real world impact instead of typical homework or tasks.
This change is the result of overpriced textbooks which drove students towards less expensive sources like eBooks, used textbooks, rental books etc. But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free?
Educators who join receive a free ebook and have access to several videos and podcasts to help them achieve their goals. It is basically a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). The 30 Goals Challenge - Over 7000 educators worldwide have participated in accomplishing goals to transform their classrooms and impact their students.
And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. Ebooks These are gone almost nowhere in education for years, despite the general ebook boom. Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population.
While eBooks and online portfolios have gained a strong foothold in schools, MOOCs and BYOD continue to have their ups and downs in the K-12 environment. Matt Renwick : Is education ripe for disruption? It depends on which areas and who you ask. Why do some innovations make an impact on student learning and others do not?
If we’re re-envisioning libraries for a modern society, for example, should we start with the library as it exists and iterate it forward, adding computers and eBook checkout and so on and maybe put a 3D printer at the entrance when you first walk in to give the glow of technology? I can see that happening with school. Dosomething.org.
There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.
You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). The School Library Journal reports that “ New York DOE Green Lights Amazon eBook Deal.” .” Here’s the WaPo headline : “Girls outscore boys on inaugural national test of technology, engineering skills.”
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The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? MOOCs are not particularly "open."
.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOC enrollment drops at HarvardX and MITx after free certifications disappear ,” says Techcrunch. Via the IEEE Spectrum : “How the Pioneers of the MOOC Got It Wrong.” Sloan Foundation has awarded DPLA $1.5
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