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and I am merely a fan – not a fanboy – of open educational resources (OER).** Others surely see me as some sort of OER fanatic. So, if these are the actions of someone who is an OER fan, what stops me short of claiming fanboy status? I work in K-12 education in the U.S., I beg to disagree. Image credits.
There is no mention for example of the New Zealand based OER University (or its founder Wayne McIntosh) and the ground breaking work they are doing to transform open educational practices in higher education. Kamenetz eulogises over blogs which she describes as nodes in a vast, informal network of learning and opportunity. High ideals indeed.
blogs, socialmedia, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. I think many MOOCs (and MOOC providers) will struggle to find a sustainable financial model in their current guise. 5) What is your response to the criticism of MOOCs (e.g. 5) What is your response to the criticism of MOOCs (e.g.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A call to rebrand MOOCs , from Edsurge. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Student blasts Georgia Tech for monitoring his socialmedia accounts, including details about his travel plans and activist work on campus.” .” More via Inside Higher Ed.
I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, socialmedia, 3d printing, etc.). Discussion connected my theme with Stephen’s via arguments about sustainability.
Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Carmona, Lead Contract English Instructor Student-Generated Apps for Mobile Devices – can they enhance higher levels of understanding? Derek Barkalow, Ph.D.
. “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ socialmedia activity ,” ProPublica reports. Schools should consider the ways in which their own socialmedia surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies.
Claims on SocialMedia : Students consider the sources of a tweet and the information contained in it in order to describe what makes it both a useful and not useful source of information. SocialMedia Video : Students watch an online video and identify its strengths and weaknesses.
Via The Independent : “13-year-old girl arrested after contacting clown on socialmedia and asking him to kill her teacher.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Raise $146.1
” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. ” (Amazon Inspire is the company’s OER platform.)
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Edsurge : “Campus Support for OER is Growing, Survey Finds.” .” There’s an update on the potential sale of for-profit operator Navitas down in “the business of education” section. president to retire in wake of football death.”
” It’s being positioned here as the first time Congress has funded open textbooks, but it’s not the federal government’s first commitment to OER. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “ OER , CARE , Stewardship, and the Commons” by “Econproph” Jim Luke.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? Edsurge’s coverage of Top Hat’s OER news is also in the Betteridge’s Law section above. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.
” For those keeping track of how great socialmedia is for the future of education and knowledge and civics and such: “Last Year, SocialMedia Was Used to Influence Elections in at Least 18 Countries ,” says the MIT Technology Review. ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?”
was named in an investigation by The Associated Press last year for sharing racially charged content on socialmedia.” Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on socialmedia or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” ” Via NPR : “How Schools Across The Country Are Working To Detect Threats Made On SocialMedia.”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. IBM wants us to believe that Watson is incredibly powerful – powerful enough, even, to search 1000 OER.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP. ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story. “MOOCs Are ”Dead.“ million in crowdfunding for its MOOC platform. “ What’s Next?
His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” ClassDojo is now a full socialmedia platform for schools - this letter & video just emailed to parents. Some of Khosla’s education investments are listed here. Because “open.”).
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Vive la MOOC révolution. ” “Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages” by Jeffrey Pomerantz in Hybrid Pedagogy. ” There’s more licensing and certification news in the MOOC section above. Edsurge on the business of OER.
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley.
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Chalkbeat investigates the Indiana Virtual School : “As students signed up, online school hired barely any teachers – but founder’s company charged it millions.” ” “How SocialMedia Can Help Teach Good Writing,” according to Edsurge.
At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Indeed, DonorsChoose.org expects teachers to leverage their socialmedia presence in order to fundraise for supplies for their classrooms.
Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on socialmedia,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! ” (That giant: Pearson , of course.).
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. There’s more MOOC news from Edsurge in the “job training” section below. Will Merge Government Data, SocialMedia Posts.”
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Some Thoughts on OER ” by Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. More on the latest Pew study on teens and socialmedia – I noted it in last week’s round-up – in Education Week and by Bryan Alexander.
I’ve never seen an education story receive quite as much attention from non-educators on socialmedia. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOC enrollment drops at HarvardX and MITx after free certifications disappear ,” says Techcrunch. It was a disaster.
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