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The Rules of 1, 3 and 7 can guide eLearning course developers in crafting their material and enabling more eager minds to learn.
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As online learning continues its rapid expansion in Ontario, Canada, and internationally, the issue of quality has become increasingly important. This new publication, A Guide to Quality in Online Learning, looks at quality from an international perspective, bringing together best practices and practical tools from around the world organized around 16 key questions. The responses to the questions address the central issues that concern Ontario post-secondary educators, administrators, and policy makers, including: What constitutes quality in online learning?How can institutions assure quality?How can instructional design, learning materials, and course presentation contribute to quality online learning?How do you ensure exam security?How can teaching and facilitation contribute to ensuring quality?What support should students receive? Contact North
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Tyler Cowen, a star economics professor at George Mason University, isn’t interested in making money off the online university he co-founded last fall. Instead, Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, who also co-write the popular blog Marginal Revolution, have a simple motto for their growing series of online courses, branded as Marginal Revolution University: “Learn, Teach and Share.” “We think learning on the Internet, like blogs, is not something you can charge for,” Cowen said.
Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/06/12/star-professors-start-their-own-university-and-dont-ever-plan-make-money#ixzz2W6E7smu4 ;
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Professors are deeply invested in the logic leading to massive open online courses and are ill-prepared to argue against them.
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California state senators voted unanimously last Thursday to pass Senate Bill 520, despite opposition from faculty at California Community Colleges, California State University, and University of California.
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"Strategically, Pearson is shifting from being a publisher of books and newspapers to being a global knowledge management company focused on learning. It now owns schools and colleges, and partners with educational institutions to design, develop and deploy online and blended learning programs...' ".....Don’t expect to see private universities and colleges growing and expanding in Ontario. They don’t need to. Students will chose their courses and programs from around the world, based on estimates of quality and price. Growth will come in the form of flexible assessment and transferable credits. That is the real bonus and challenge of these developments. These developments are “the elephants in the room” when discussions take place amongst public sector institutions and government agencies. Yet it is exactly these developments that will lead students to look elsewhere for their choices and options. Change is coming – It’s just being driven from the “outside in.”
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Online education is likely to lead to cost savings while delivering more to students "How can this lead to cost reductions? The savings can accrue rapidly if the course is massively enrolled and subsections are taught by less well-paid individuals; or if the course lasts several years and the designers and lead professor may be paid over time." " Favourite faculty members will gain “rock star” status and be known internationally. "
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As big names crowd into smaller classrooms via MOOCs, professors begin to wonder if their own teaching is at risk. The 17 students in a programming course at MassBay's Wellesley Hills campus watched recorded lectures and completed online homework assignments created by professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and offered as a massive open online course through edX, a nonprofit MOOC vendor co-founded by MIT. The MassBay students met for regular class sessions with Harold Riggs, a professor of computer science at the community college. Students were required to come for only 90 minutes each week, rather than the customary three hours. And in addition to graded in-class projects from Mr. Riggs, the students completed homework assignments and three major exams written by the MIT professors and graded automatically by edX. At the end of the semester, the students who passed the class got three credits from MassBay and a certificate of achievement from edX....
Exploring Curation as a core competency in digital and media literacy education
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The report has good data, tries to separate out active learners from window shoppers and not short on surprises. It’s a rich resource and a follow up report is promised.
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design, build, and create content for your own mobile app accessible through iOS, Android, and the mobile web. browser-based app builder can organize articles, multiple choice tests, flashcards, and RSS feeds. Free apps are free to build and deploy.
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A new study shows that students think traditional classes are easier now. But online education offers a good option for the future. 50% say they don't need a physical classroom -they want choice
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Confusion and anger over a major, secretly brokered deal between Library and Archives Canada and a private high-tech consortium heightened Wednesday amid damage-control efforts by archive officials who say the deal is a good one.
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Ontario’s government is following through on plans to double the length of teacher education programs, but has knocked universities off balance by demanding they make the switch with 20 per cent less funding for each student. The province will extend teachers’ degrees from one year to two, starting in 2015.
Issue number 33 of eLearning Papers focuses on the challenges and future of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), a trend in education that has skyrocketed since 2008. […] Among other topics, eLearning Papers 33 explores whether MOOCs may be a viable solution for education in developing countries and analyses the role of these emerging courses in the education system, especially in higher education. Furthermore, valuable examples from the field are presented, such as the quad-blogging concept and a game-based MOOC developed to promote entrepreneurship education.
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Five-year research project at University of Victoria shows that there is an upside to video games for teenagers
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The Predatory Pedagogy of On-Line Education "As the BIG 3 automakers cravenly eye China, the e-learning behemoth is licking its chops at the classroom. On May 14, major industry officials announced their study showing the “enormous potential for the future of the e-learning market.” IBIS Capital and the Edxus Group, said that “While education as a whole is triple the size of the media and entertainment industry at $4.2 trillion, digital education is currently only 20% of the size of the digital media market. Since education is undergoing the same disruptive effects of digitalization that the media industry has seen in recent years, they expect to see fifteen fold growth in the e-learning market in the next 10 years to represent 30% of the total education market,” reported Pippa Cottrell in Realwire, (Cottrell 2013). ...."
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Today’s savvy job seekers are blogging their way to success -- and job opportunities. Here’s why a blog can get you your next job.
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Back in 2007, Adam Bellow launched a site called eduTecher to aggregate and surface the best educational resources and content on the Web. " The idea behind eduClipper, Bellow says, is to give students the same power of social curation they would have with Pinterest, allowing them to locate and publicly broadcast the best learning resources. In other words, educators and students the ability to explore thousands of pieces of educational content, find lesson plans, resources and videos, search for the most popular content by subject or interest. With eduClipper, users can share individual eduClips (or pieces of content) or eduClipboards (collections of content) with colleagues or students, while cross posting or embedding that content on other social platforms or sending them through email..."
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In a wide-ranging consideration of 21st century education, Noam Chomsky argues that much of what passes for education reform is 'a way of turning the population into a bunch of imbeciles.' selected quotes on history of ed "a lot of public education was, in fact, concerned with trying to teach independent people to become workers in an industrial system." " Emerson- we have to train them in obedience and servility, so they're not going to think through the way the world works and come after our throats." now- "teachers like you. They're turning into adjuncts, temporary workers who have no rights, you know. I don't have to tell you what it's like, you can tell me." "teach to the test - worst possible way of teaching. But it is a disciplinary technique. Schools are designed to teach the test. You don't have to worry about students thinking for themselves, challenging, raising questions." "there's a huge part of the advertising industry which is designed to capture children. And it's destroying childhood. ....Kids don't know how to play....the idea of going out just to play with all the creative challenge, those insights: that's gone. " "Now they have a new program, which sounds very pretty on the surface. It's designed to increase "critical thinking." And the way you increase critical thinking is by having "balanced education." "Balanced education" means that if you teach kids something about the climate, you also have to teach them climate change denial. It's like teaching evolution science, but also creation science, so that you have "critical thinking." "Kids are naturally creative, and of course, you don't have to beat it out of them. That's why they're asking, "Why?" all the time."
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What is digital curation and why is it important to you? Leading experts in the curation and preservation of digital objects (such as databases, photos, videos, websites, etc) discuss what exactly is digital curation, and why it matters to everybody.
DigCurV is a project funded by the European Commission under the Lifelong Learning Programme to develop a curriculum framework for training in Digital Curation. The project ran from Jan 2011 until June 2013. To learn more, visit digcur-education.org
Recorded at the DigCurV Final Conference
6th and 7th May 2013
Florence, Italy
Interviewed by Vicky Garnett
Video and sound recording by Karolina Badzmierowska
Video and sound editing by Vicky Garnett
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