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Jason R Levine's curator insight,
May 11, 9:07 PM
"MOOCs were not designed to serve the missions of the elite colleges and universities. They were designed to undermine them, and make those missions obsolete. Yes there has been a great rebranding and co-option of the concept of the MOOC over the last couple of years. The near-instant response from the elites, almost unprecedented in my experience, is a recognition of the deeply subversive intent and design of the original MOOCs (which they would like very much to erase from history)." 
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May 12, 4:42 AM
The adoption of Moocs by institutions and what they were created for 
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May 13, 3:10 AM
"MOOCs were not designed to serve the missions of the elite colleges and universities. They were designed to undermine them, and make those missions obsolete. Yes there has been a great rebranding and co-option of the concept of the MOOC over the last couple of years. The near-instant response from the elites, almost unprecedented in my experience, is a recognition of the deeply subversive intent and design of the original MOOCs (which they would like very much to erase from history)." Delete the scoop?
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Need to create online assessments for a flipped classroom or for a blended learning environment? Here are 26 tools to get you started. Via Skip Zalneraitis
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... always prefer the ones that aren't "the 10 best..." :) Delete the scoop?
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In a follow-up to his previous article on the top 20 tools to help you get started with data visualisation, Brian Suda presents a further 20 FREE tools and educational resources for cleaning up data and creating brilliant visualisations...
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... this second set appeals to the Yorkshireman in me.. the price is right :) Delete the scoop?
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The best blogs on MOOCs, cloud computing, mobile learning, social media, digital pedagogy and more chosen by EdTech readers.
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Useful edtech blogs for both school and Higher Ed. Delete the scoop?
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"With the growing adoption of MOOCs, the number of MOOC providers has also increased many fold. A comprehensive and up-to-date list of MOOC providers".
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Useful jump list ... though obviously this list of MOOCs is a moving target... Delete the scoop?
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Dealing honestly with those early reactions to a new technology on the block - and the 'invariable history' rewrites after adoption.... :) Delete the scoop?
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In the largest survey of instructors who have taught massive open online courses, The Chronicle heard from critics, converts, and the cautious. Via Gabi Witthaus, Terese Bird
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A survey and subsequent analysis of US professors involved in the delivery of MOOC courses in US HE offers some interesting insights. 
Gabi Witthaus's curator insight,
March 26, 11:02 AM
Participation in MOOCs is being seen by some school leavers as an essential element for their college applications. Delete the scoop?
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Finding the best education technology tools is a time-consuming task. It may even be viewed as a chore (for some). Not with this fabulous list, though! Via Chris Crites
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Another of those useful aggregations that help you spot new edtech tools to explore... Delete the scoop?
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Working with expert teacher Mandeep Atwal was the icing on the cake for prizewinning primary pupils and their friends. Tony Parkin sat in
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These schools had originally been chosen from among those in the less affluent areas of London, and one of the aims of the ‘8 in a Day’ initiative (known as '8 in 8' after the number of schools) had been to help raise pupil aspirations, and realise that they could maybe get jobs in the burgeoning IT sector. Delete the scoop?
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Less than 10 percent of MOOC students, on average, complete a course. That's the conclusion of Katy Jordan of Open University, who published her analysis, pul Via Nik Peachey
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Analysis of MOOC sign up and completion rates... not everyone even intends taking the course... 
Patricia LeClaire's comment,
April 8, 12:50 PM
I've enrolled in two MOOC courses - partly because the topics were relevant to my work, but also to experience a MOOC from the "inside" as both a student and an instructional designer. I was particularly interested in opportunities for interaction (student-instructor, student-student, student-content, student-technology) and collaboration.
In one course, focused on a subject area with which I'm very familiar, students formed virtual groups around mutual interests and professional objectives, developed projects which were evaluated according to clear guidelines, and the projects were made available to all enrollees.. This course also had very active student-generated discussions on focused topics. What characterized this MOOC was the flexibility provided to the students for creating multiple ways to interact and collaborate. The second MOOC focused on topics that were highly technical and mostly how-to with little discussion of why-to. Interaction among students was considerably less, and I was unsuccessful in either forming or joining a group (virtual or F2F local) to expand my understanding of context and implementation issues. While the content was interesting ( I particularly liked the video lectures and animations), I found it a much more isolating experience and did not complete the course. 
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April 8, 8:33 PM
Pat, thanks for sharing those first hand experiences. Very valuable insights!
Dawne Tortorella's curator insight,
April 10, 8:02 PM
This blog post does discuss some reasons why students enroll in MOOCs, but doesn't really talk much about why they drop out.
One big reason - FRUSTRATION. When a learner gets stuck and can't get individualized meaningful feedback, it creates a failed learning experience. I think we discount how important those personal encounters are in helping learners.
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Are you allowing your students to bring their own devices into school? Will this make a difference to their learning outcomes? Will you be disadvantaging a significant proportion of pupils who may not have their own devices? Are some already disadvantaged because they don’t have access at home to the devices that many of their peers already have? Tony Parkin welcomes YOTS, a free online survey tool from VITAL, to help schools audit students' access to ICT
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Peter Twining and the Open University's latest tool to help schools monitor student technology access... Delete the scoop?
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The world-famous Bett education technology exhibition saw hundreds of exhibitors and CPD seminars and thousands of visitors when it took place in London. Sal McKeown rounds up Bett 2013 – the year of tablets and the cloud.
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"What the Apple TV allows us to do is to share what we are doing on our iPads at any given moment with the whole class. Anyone in the room with an iOS device can choose to “Airplay” their iPad screen at any time. Since I have the Apple TV hooked up to my VGA projector, any student can choose to show the whole class whatever is showing on their iPad screen. Airplay works with both audio and video simultaneously." Via John Rudkin
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... just another whole-class display tool, or a genuine paradigm shifter for the iPad equipped classroom? 
John Rudkin's curator insight,
February 23, 10:17 AM
If only I'd been quicker off the mark.....it was easy to see the disruption potential of AppleTV. 
lboumedien's curator insight,
March 6, 2:23 PM
Smartboard are very useful tools but I am wondering about their future in classrooms. I am surprised to see so many teacher turning them off and prefering the old whiteboard. Sometime I feel the need to write on a white board too. Delete the scoop?
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The latest edition of ‘The mg Times’ is already here to inspire knowledge. We invite you to explore the pages of this exclusive publication, a special issue based on Education World Forum 2013. ‘The m...
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... a review of material from the EWF, held in London in January 2013... Delete the scoop?
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In an open letter, the San Jose professors worry that public higher education will suffer if scholar-student interaction is replaced with videotaped content.
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Does a Harvard Professor sharing lectures via a MOOC mean democratising the best in teaching, or industrialising education and reducing lecturer employment? Delete the scoop?
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Millions of students have signed up for massive open online courses, and hundreds of universities are offering some form of Web-based curriculum. Most students aren’t paying much for these classes, if they’re paying anything at all. So where is all that knowledge—and all the cash—coming from?
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"55 Content Curation Tools To Discover & Share Digital Content."
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Well we certainly needed someone to curate the curation tools! "Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?" Delete the scoop?
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Over and above the annual Summit, WISE is an international initiative and platform for a multitude of established and new educational actors to collaborate proactively all year round.
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WISE special focus thismonth is on the innovative use of technology and the new opportunities this offers for collaborative learning for all, anytime and anywhere. Delete the scoop?
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The Trend Report: Open Educational Resources 2013 describes trends in open educational resources (OER) and open education in the Netherlands and elsewhere, from the perspective of Dutch higher education. It comprises fifteen articles by Dutch experts in the field of open and online education. It also includes 15 short “Intermezzos” giving high-profile examples. The report is published by theOpen Educational Resources Special Interest Group (SIG OER) supported by SURF.
Via Phil Barker, JohnRobertson
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Extremely useful analysis of Open Ed trends giving an excellent overview of the field in 2013 Delete the scoop?
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I have just finished Out of our Minds: Learning to be Creative by Sir Ken Robinson. This is the third time I have read this book, but the first time I have read the second edition. It is hard to ... Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Anna Hu
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Blog post on implications of Ken Robinson's 'Out of Our Minds' for creativity in schools. 
emeraldgirl's curator insight,
April 19, 6:24 AM
After reading this post I want to read the book. Creativity is often under utlised or frowned upon, and neglected when people are time poor. This book seems to position valuing creativity as an important part of our working and learning life. I am intrigued... Delete the scoop?
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Probably the last thing the scientists steering the Mars Rover up one of the mountains of Mars expected to encounter was an awkward alien, asking difficult questions. But when the mountain in question is Mount Kerching, and the Rover is part of a Kodu game being programmed by London primary pupils, that’s what you may get.
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Second piece on the Kodu Kup programming day for the RM/Microsoft '8 in 8' project focuses on the Kodu Kup itself... 
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April 15, 6:36 AM
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It is possible to gamify any Moodle 2 course using out-of-the-box Moodle features. Watch this video to learn how to gamify your Moodle courses in under 20 mi... Via gideonwilliams
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Much praised by @gideonwilliams, adept user of Moodle and Mahara... 
Helena Afonso Dos Santos's comment,
April 17, 8:08 AM
Yes... there's a course free at https://www.coursera.org//course/gamification
Luís Filipe Barata's curator insight,
May 15, 9:20 AM
Já gostava do moodle... mas as atividades adaptativas estão quase disponíveis com o moodle! Um agradável descoberta! Delete the scoop?
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder as Tony Parkin gives an update on the work of John Davitt
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For many educators, helping students direct their own learning is a priority.
Educator and author Alan November, who has been talking about ways to get students to own their learning for years, draws on his experiences as a teacher, principal and education consultant to tell stories about some of the ideas he sees as integral to education.
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From super-effective search tricks to Google tools specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time. Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Roselink, Juergen Wagner, Let's Learn IT
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...useful collection of all those Google shortcuts and nifty features that you keep forgetting... 
Andrea Cruz's curator insight,
May 5, 11:01 PM
There are so many good things from Google. Check them out. One feature that I use often is the form features. I send out surveys and invitations. Responses feed into a spreadsheet. Delete the scoop?
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