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The design and future of open education: Curtis Bonk on Future Trends Forum

Bryan Alexander

Curt began by describing the use of MOOCs for faculty and staff development, with examples such as a University of London effort. In fact, open MOOCs can work for any population, esp. I asked how open learning works for non-professionals, citing research showing many MOOC users are already professionals and/or academics.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

Originally I thought the academic staff member should be the creator and designer of online learning for their subjects. I didn’t have to wonder whether I should used a wiki or a blog or a journal with my students. As an aside, I think we have massively overcomplicated online learning. Now I disagree.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

Originally I thought the academic staff member should be the creator and designer of online learning for their subjects. I didn’t have to wonder whether I should used a wiki or a blog or a journal with my students. As an aside, I think we have massively overcomplicated online learning. Now I disagree.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

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.