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All about Educational Innovation, new tools & trends, MOOCs in Higher Education
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Whether public or private, universities cannot be exempt from regulation, says Miguel Angel Escotet, but it should come in the form of self-assessment and a duty to society, not politics
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the author states: "Autonomy will always be subordinate to the necessary response of universities to the needs, demands, characteristics and transformations of the social system of which they are a part. "
Are the goverments part of that social system? (one would answer "yes"). Then... for example, in Spain, the actual goverment is preparing a new Law for University regulation, with a tremendous loss of institutions actual autonomy. ... but are politicians really the best regulators of Universities? I'm afraid this is not the good road map... Delete the scoop?
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Un grupo de profesionales de la educación, la mayoría profesores y profesoras de universidad, reunidos en Sevilla los días 26 y 27 de octubre de 2012, preocupados por la situación del sistema educativo y alarmados por la evolución de la política educativa, con objeto de animar el debate y de generar un compromiso con la mejora declaramos: Delete the scoop?
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- A main concern is the low level of courses completions (below 10%):
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/measuring-the-success-of-online-education , one can consider 20% completion a success: http://technorati.com/technology/article/are-massive-open-online-courses-moocs/
- In the same line, a Coursera's MOOC had 180.000 students, but less than 26.000 are now running: http://www.hackcollege.com/blog/2013/01/22/duke-university-professors-mooc-has-180000-students.html
-On the other hand US universities are thinking to link a first free MOOC with a second official course for credit in the named "MOOC2Grade":
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/23/education/public-universities-to-offer-free-online-classes-for-credit.html?_r=3&
-Competition between Universities is open for the MOOC market, New international alliances are growing: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/22/foreign-universities-consider-how-best-enter-mooc-market
-Thoughts about knowledge transmition from a MOOC pioner professor (Scott E. Page): http://at.blogs.wm.edu/thoughts-from-a-mooc-pioneer/
IF YOU NEED SOME GUIDANCE, THEN:
-Alec Couros on Jan 22, 2013,Slides used to facilitated the Introduction to Connected Learning session in #etmooc: ttp://www.slideshare.net/courosa/etmooc-connected-learning-A collection of MOOCs to search in Class Central: http://www.class-central.com/
-Collection of posts in eLearning Industry about MOOCs, history of how is learning in a Harvard's MOOC: http://elearningindustry.com/subjects/general/item/438-the-rise-and-history-of-moocs-infographic-prezi-presentation