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Just to give a few examples, KhanAcademy , Crash Course , and popular MOOC sites like Coursera and edX have started a revolution in education, making their own content or their partners’ content (especially higher university institutions on Coursera and edX) available for everyone. Write a book.
If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Salman Khan should feel honored. Since he introduced KhanAcademy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines.
The last thing I expected to encounter this week was a resurgence in the KhanAcademy Debates of this past summer. But honestly, I hadn’t thought much about KhanAcademy since then — until Monday afternoon. I picked this one today for a reason; go to the end to find out.
He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. Then you could switch up the kind of activities that you're doing in your classroom time.
Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. The FlippedClassroom. KhanAcademy. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not). The Compulsion for Data. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Indie Ed-Tech.
Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. The FlippedClassroom. KhanAcademy. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not). The Compulsion for Data. Social Media, Campus Activism, and Free Speech. Indie Ed-Tech.
The FlippedClassroom". It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flippedclassroom” to most people. See David Kernohan’s excellent keynote at OpenEd13 for more.)
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