May 2013
221 posts
MOOCs: Who’s using MOOCs? 10 different target...
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC The problem is that the decision makers often don’t have the marketing skills to differentiate between different addressable audiences. External adult learners may not want a long-winded, over-engineered, six to ten week course on anything. Life’s too short. Yet academics are used to producing courses of this semester length. What many may want are mini MOOCs....
Opensimulator Community Conference 2013
See on Scoop.it - Augmented, Alternate and Virtual Realities in Higher Education Announcing the 1st Annual OpenSimulator Community Conference The Overte Foundation and AvaCon are pleased to announce the first annual OpenSimulator Community Conference 2013, to take place on the OpenSimulator Conference Center grid on September 7 – 8, 2013. The OpenSimulator Community Conference will be a...
How online learning is shifting the academic...
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC Lou Bloomfield is behind on his correspondence. A teetering stack of letters and postcards sits on the desk of the UVA physics professor, creator of the much-loved undergraduate science-for-non-science-majors course “How Things Work.” They’re all from students, and full of praise and thanks. He’s met none of them. “I really want to be able to devote some time to...
Donald Clark Plan B: MOOCs: taxonomy of 8 types of...
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC What are MOOCs? “The future is already here, it’s just not very evenly distributed” said William Gibson, that is certainly true of MOOCs. We have MOOC mania but ‘all MOOCs are not created equal’ and there’s lots of species of MOOC. This is good and we must learn from these experiments to move forward and not get bogged down in old traditionalist v modernist...
Donald Clark Plan B: MOOCs: a breath of fresh air,...
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC A Secretary of State for Education in the US likened Education to a giant blob. No matter what you did to to change the blob, it always healed up or reformed back into its original shape. Are MOOCs puncturing or reshaping the blob? Or are they just orbiting the blob? Forces from the outside world, namely technology and hard economics are putting pressure on the...
Donald Clark Plan B: MOOCs: Who’s using MOOCs? 10...
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC Fascinating graphic,a sit shows that nearly 42% of the target audience for MOOCs are not the developed world. It also raises an interesting question. Who is it for?’ are four words that tease out a MOOC strategy or lack of strategy. For most it is a marketing exercise in terms of the brand, a way of reducing internal costs on high volume courses, a way of...
Donald Clark Plan B: MOOC on Human-Computer...
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC Enjoying Stanford’s Coursera MOOC on Human-Computer Interaction but (oh the irony) the screen design and pedagogy of the many videos, is awful. Don’t get me wrong, it’s easy to use, has good content and I’m getting what I thought I’d get - a reasonable course. It is very video heavy, which is OK; let’s face it most HE courses are lecture heavy - at least they’re...
Educational uses of 3D Graphics-Virtual Reality -...
See on Scoop.it - Augmented, Alternate and Virtual Realities in Higher Education University of the Aegean Summer School Join SSVR ’13 for: Valuable experiences in the development of online, multi-user, multi-platform 3 Dimensional (3D) environments. Innovative educational activities. Out of the box software. Start developing your own virtual worlds within minutes. Original and...
We're witnessing the rise of the graph in big data
See on Scoop.it - Learning Analytics in Higher Education Graph databases and graph-processing applications have been popping up all over the place lately, and now they’re starting to go commercial. On Tuesday, popular open source project GraphLab joined the ranks of graph startups. See on gigaom.com
The Ed Techie: Uncle MOOC
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC MOOCs are like the patronising uncle who has yet to have a child of his own. They are great fun for the nieces and nephews, they are inventive, playful, and the kids always look forward to them arriving. But this uncle secretly (and after a couple of beers, not so secretly) thinks he could do a better job at raising the kids than the parents. He may also think...
Can We Really Trust Nathan Heller's MOOCs?
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC Nathan Heller of the New Yorker puts us in a dilemma with his picture of the MOOCs. We need sustainable MOOCs for a complete transformation of online education. See on blog.wiziq.com
A Serious Second Life for B-Schools—No ‘Big Bird’...
See on Scoop.it - Augmented, Alternate and Virtual Realities in Higher Education If Avaya has its way, business students will be replaced by avatars in a virtual world. Don’t laugh: It already happened at MIT Sloan See on businessweek.com
Search, Collect and Organize Information Into...
See on Scoop.it - Curation in Higher Education See on youtube.com
Free apps list
See on Scoop.it - Curtin iPad User Group A list of free apps recommended by the STaRT Education Department Kim Flintoff’s insight: Focus on K-12 but many of the suggestions are suitable for learners at any level. The Teacher apps similarly find a place at many levels. See on slideshare.net
The Accidental CIO: Why MOOCs are like Farmville,...
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC I laid out my concerns with Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), understanding their rapid ascent within the confines of Gartner’s Hype Cycle. In doing so, my purpose was to suggest that the true innovations posed by MOOCs will be much different than what is commonly presumed. Ultimately, as MOOCs descend from the peak of inflated expectations, down through the...
Embrace Moocs or face decline, warns v-c
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC “It’s Mooc or die”, a university vice-chancellor has said, claiming that institutions must embrace the massive open online course movement and adapt their teaching methods or face a tough future. See on timeshighereducation.co.uk
Essay suggests that MOOCs are losing their...
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC The recent announcement from the California State University System regarding its embrace of edX massive open online courses (MOOCs) is interesting and depressing at the same time. As with many aspects of the MOOC phenomenon, it comes packaged with good and bad aspects bundled up together. Instructors will offer a “special ‘flipped’ version of an...
handyPrint: Print from an iPad without AirPrint...
See on Scoop.it - Curtin iPad User Group Print from your iPad to any printer using handyPrint app for Mac. See on technoduet.com
Virtual World Design Thinking: MOOCing in the...
See on Scoop.it - Augmented, Alternate and Virtual Realities in Higher Education Because of the highly collaborative and immersive experience virtual worlds offer, educators continue to explore the potential—and experience benefits—of teaching and learning in real-life replicated environments. Among these educators are Dr. Andrew Stricker, distributed learning architect for The Air University,...
Virtual World Design Thinking: MOOCing in the...
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC Because of the highly collaborative and immersive experience virtual worlds offer, educators continue to explore the potential—and experience benefits—of teaching and learning in real-life replicated environments. Among these educators are Dr. Andrew Stricker, distributed learning architect for The Air University, and Dr. Cynthia Calongne, professor at Colorado...
Virtual Islands for Biology Education
See on Scoop.it - Augmented, Alternate and Virtual Realities in Higher Education We want to purchase a server and materials to host Virtual Biology Islands using OpenSimulator. Biological Interactive Objects for Science and Education (BIO-SE) is a group of educators (University staff, as well as independent educators) that are using virtual worlds and virtual technologies to deliver teaching to...
MA Reveal: Immersive Literature
See on Scoop.it - Augmented, Alternate and Virtual Realities in Higher Education Investigating how the affordances of virtual world environments might be employed in immersive literature. Over the last eight months, as those who are regular readers will know, I have been studying through the University of the West of England for myMA Education in Virtual Worlds. Four papers over; Orientation in...
Summer 2013 Games MOOC
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC Welcome! We are doing a MOOC! A Games MOOC! Come join us for the Summer 2013 offering. Designed using the connectivism learning theory, the Games MOOC is a Massive Online Open Course focusing on game based learning in education. Connectivist MOOCs or cMOOCs started in 2008. Since then there have been a series of these free connectivism open online courses...
Q&A- Rheingold on Using Technology to Take...
See on Scoop.it - Flipping learning in Higher Education Spotlight covers the intersections of technology and education, going behind the research to show how digital media is used in and out of classrooms to expand learning. See on spotlight.macfound.org
JSTOR: For Authors - Browse - Teaching & Learning...
See on Scoop.it - Higher Education Teaching and Learning Why Submit to Teaching & Learning Inquiry? Teaching & Learning Inquiry (TLI) is the flagship publication of the International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (http://www.issotl.org.) It represents one of the world’s most active organizations in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) with a worldwide...
Personalized Learning, Backpacks Full of Cash,...
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC The Intersection of Technology, Free-Market Ideology, and Media Hype in U.S. Education Reform with Justin Reich, Berkman Center Fellow May 7, 12:30pm ET [New Location] Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall, Milstein East C [Event at Capacity] Please join webcast live at 12:30pm ET or view archived video on our site shortly after. For decades, policymakers and...
Friend, Fraud, Or Fishy | Georgia Tech & Udacity...
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC That’s big news and it’s going to be a shocking bit of news to all of Higher Ed. Competitor Computer Science programs now will look expensive and be forced to respond. See on wiredacademic.com
Developing 21st Century Critical Thinkers -...
See on Scoop.it - Higher Education Teaching and Learning Download an 11X17 version of the Developing 21st Century Critical Thinkers Infographic by Mentoring Minds.com. See on mentoringminds.com
Stampsy - create digital multimedia content
See on Scoop.it - Digital and Graphic Design Tips, Tools and Tricks in Higher Education Stampsy is a sharing platform for people who produce compelling digital media content. Whether you’re a photographer, an editor or an art school student, Stampsy is the place where your creative ideas are shaped into beautiful digital experiences. We call them Stamps and they’re a completely new...
Stampsy - create digital multimedia content
See on Scoop.it - Curtin iPad User Group Stampsy is a sharing platform for people who produce compelling digital media content. Whether you’re a photographer, an editor or an art school student, Stampsy is the place where your creative ideas are shaped into beautiful digital experiences. We call them Stamps and they’re a completely new online format for framing your talent and...
Nearpod for 1 to 1 Classrooms
See on Scoop.it - Curtin iPad User Group In classrooms with just one iPad there are lots of apps that you can use to create presentations (Educreations, Doceri, ScreenChomp, Haiku Deck). If you have access to 1 to 1 technology you have t… See on classtechtips.com
A Step by Step Tutorial on How to Flip your...
See on Scoop.it - Flipping learning in Higher Education See on educatorstechnology.com
VOTA (tm) - Microsoft Kinect 3D Training...
See on Scoop.it - Simulation in Health Sciences Education Virtual Occupational Therapy Assistant was developed in recognition of the need for a gaming application for stroke therapy that is fun, accessible, and meaningful in the context of occupational therapy objectives — in other words relearning skills that permit functional independence at home. See on youtube.com
Why TED Talks Have Become So Popular - Edudemic
See on Scoop.it - Higher Education Teaching and Learning TED talks are useful and free ways to bring high-level thinking and through-provoking ideas into the classroom and your home. See on edudemic.com
The 21st century skill students really lack.
See on Scoop.it - Higher Education Teaching and Learning Most teachers t think that students today have a problem paying attention. They seem impatient, easily bored. I’ve argued that I think it’s unlikely that they are incapable of paying attention,… See on danielwillingham.com
Maria Bezaitis: The surprising need for...
See on Scoop.it - Learning Analytics in Higher Education In our digital world, social relations have become mediated by data. Without even realizing it, we’re barricading ourselves against strangeness — people and ideas that don’t fit the patterns of who we already know, what we already like and where we’ve already been. A call for technology to deliver us to what and who we need,...
Campus Technology MOOC Community
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC A place to share ideas about massive open online courses, and to continue the dialogue from Campus… See on facebook.com
46 Tools To Make Infographics In The Classroom
See on Scoop.it - Digital and Graphic Design Tips, Tools and Tricks in Higher Education Infographics are interesting–a mash of (hopefully) easily-consumed visuals (so, symbols, shapes, and images) and added relevant character-based data (so, numbers, words, and brief sentences). The learning application for them is clear, with many academic standards–including the Common Core standards–requiring...
The Quality of Massive Open Online Courses ~...
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC In this contribution I address the question of assessing the quality of massive open online courses. The assessment of the quality of anything is fraught with difficulties, depending as it does on some commonly understood account of what would count as a good example of the thing, what factors constitute success, and how that success against that standard is to...
The Disruption Higher Ed Doesn’t See Coming (and...
See on Scoop.it - Digital Badges in Higher Education This is why I dispair when I hear CIOs refer to authentication and authorization systems as “just plumbing.” Yeah, I get that it’s just plumbing - IF YOU THINK YOU LIVE IN A WORLD SEPARATE FROM THE INTERNET AS A WHOLE. I’m not suggesting they can singlehandedly solve this issue and this transformation on their own, but as some of the largest...
edX MOOC Software Goes Open Source
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC EdX, the not-for-profit online learning enterprise founded by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), today released its XBlock SDK to the general public under the Affero GPL open source license. XBlock is the underlying architecture supporting the rich, interactive course content found in edX courses. With XBlock, educational...
Ditch the resume and pick up a badge, they're not...
See on Scoop.it - Digital Badges in Higher Education From tuition fees to transfer credits, higher education issues provoke strong opinions and it’s rare to find an area of consensus. But one issue where there seems to be agreement is the need for students to acquire a diverse mix of skills and capabilities – not just academic training, but also a variety of interpersonal, professional and...
Badge pathways: part 1, the paraquel
See on Scoop.it - Digital Badges in Higher Education A few weeks ago I posted this image and stated that I would be following up with several posts about badge pathways. In particular, how they fit into our work at Mozilla along several different lin… See on carlacasilli.wordpress.com
Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research...
See on Scoop.it - Open Educational Resources in Higher Education NOW AVAILABLE: Perspectives on Open and Distance Learning: Open Educational Resources: Innovation, Research and Practice Rory McGreal, Wanjira Kinuthia and Stewart Marshall, Eds. May 2013 Published jointly by the Commonwealth of Learning and Athabasca University, Canada (UNESCO/COL Chair in OER) as CC-BY-SA and freely available to...
ISTE 2013: Epic Leadership: Beyond the Hype of...
See on Scoop.it - Games, gaming and gamification in Higher Education Recently, gamification in education has been a trend characterized by two very different perspectives. Some see engagement, concentration and collaboration, while others see isolation, social dysfunction and addiction. This interactive, 3-hour session will dispel the myths surrounding gaming, draw clear connections between games...
Can You MOOC Your Way to a Career? - Q&A With Kio...
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC Kio Stark, author of Don’t Go Back to School, talks about how independent learners are using MOOCs and other online learning resources. See on moocnewsandreviews.com
Say it out loud it’ll be okay : Action, activity...
See on Scoop.it - eLearning and Blended Learning in Higher Education If we equate teaching and learning in HE to a balancing act, walking on a tightrope between two buildings in a gale then we can start to see the difference between these two concepts. In this analogy, activity is what is keeps you there on the wire, hands flat, arms out, small wiggles from side to side to maintain balance and...
Friend, Fraud, Or Fishy | WiredAcademic
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC Another recent member of the MOOC resistance comes from Amherst College, a selective liberal arts college on the East Coast. The school turned down an invite from edX, the non-profit massive open online course platform led by MIT and Harvard. It’s one of the early public signs of faculty resistance groups fighting back at the trendy MOOC concept, which some...
The MOOC Monster
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC Cosmic monstrosities… Disruption! End-Times! Robot-graders! MOOCpocalypse! The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own...
Famous MOOCsters of EDULANDIA
See on Scoop.it - Massively MOOC Because Audrey asked… https://twitter.com/audreywatters/status/332892228722765824 Perhaps monstering soon at http://moocthulhu.com/ Look closely into the eye of Cthulhu to see its true intent. See on cogdogblog.com
