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I’m tempted to suggest that above all MOOCs should hang a sign that declares “abandon all quality measures”, because most of the ones we have developed for formal education don’t apply in MOOCs. We have developed a set of quality measures based on a specific relationship between the education provider and the student. That relationship is fundamentally altered in a MOOC, and so those of existing measures are not applicable.
Rethinking Education, a strategy presented by the European Commission last November, calls for focusing on 'learning outcomes' - the knowledge, skills and competences that students acquire.
Via Andreas Link
The provosts of Big 10 universities and the University of Chicago are in high-level talks to create an online education network across their campuses, which collectively enroll more than 500,000 students a year.
An Introduction to EU grants programmes. This is the first of three Modules on how to access EU Programmes
Via Andreas Link
Established leaders have an obligation to pass the baton and help develop leadership in others. This article discusses 4 critical components to effectively mentor young professionals and inspire future leaders.
Via Amy Melendez
Here’s a list of blogs that feed my teaching soul, hunger for knowledge, and need for deeper insights into teaching, learning and writing. There are so many wonderful blogs that it’s impossible to list them all here, so I’m listing the ones that have been most relevant to my own professional development. As such, they should be relevant to any teacher who wants to turn online teaching and/or publishing into a fully-fledged career.
Via Nik Peachey
Collections of all the lesson plans published via the NY Times Learning Network, grouped by curriculum area: 1. Language Arts, Journalism, and the Arts 2. Science, Health, Technology and Math 3. Social Studies, History, Georgraphy, and Civics 4. A collection of 182 Student Opinion questions, from this school year, all still open to comment on our blog. Each asks students to read a short, high-interest nonfiction piece from The Times, then write in a response.
Via Jim Lerman
Expanding on our weekly Innovation column — which asks, Who made that? — we explore the origins of dozens of products and ideas in this special issue of the magazine.
Via Jim Lerman
You can have either a fixed or growth mindset according to Carol Dweck, Which mindset do you have?
Via Barbara Bray
Open content licensing for educators is a free online workshop designed for educators who want to learn more about open education resources, copyright, and creative commons licenses. This workshop will:
- Reflect on the practice of sharing knowledge in education and the permissions educators consider fair and reasonable;
- Define what constitutes an open education resource (OER);
- Explain how international copyright functions in a digital world;
- Introduce the Creative Commons suite of licenses and explain how they support open education approaches;
- Connect with educators around the world to share thoughts and experiences in relation to copyright, OER and Creative Commons.
Via Andreas Link
By Lisa Nielsen "If you're an innovative educator, by now, you have probably tried Google Hangouts which let you conduct a video conference with up to ten people / locations FOR FREE! This by itself has terrific potential for teaching and learning tool.
I explained here ways the following ideas could be put to use in the classroom:1) Take a class without having to be in the same place. 2) Invite an audience to a performance. 3) Invite others to perform/discuss with you. What you may yet to have tried is livestreaming your Hangout and capturing it via YouTube. This is known as Google Hangouts On Air which takes something that was already awesome, and makes it even better.
You can see what it is here:"
Via Jim Lerman
Automatically generate bibliographies, references and title pages in APA, MLA and Chicago styles.
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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Ask a high school junior about their college search and they’ll usually respond to you with some version of three questions they have when exploring and evaluating schools.
Via Régis Faubet
Anyone who has used the Prezi platform would know that creating a Prezi and uploading it to Prezi.com is easy enough, however when it comes to converting it to a YouTube video, there seems to be no native method of doing so...
Via Baiba Svenca
The staff of Elm Street School (RSU 16) come together to use 'Café' and 'Daily Five' protocols to increase student ownership and engagement in learning to read.
Via Kathleen McClaskey
There is an article in the Boston Review by Thomas Leddy called "Are MOOCs Good for Students?" In this article Leddy claims that "MOOCs pose a great threat to the most important value of higher education: 'literacy.' By 'literacy' I mean, very broadly, the ability to read, think about, and intelligently respond (both orally and in writing) to the literature of any field of study. Thus, implementation of MOOCs for university credit is bad because it is bad for our students."
Via Alastair Creelman
Six Steps to Personalize Learning to Meet the Common Core
Tuesday, June 25th, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Via Kathleen McClaskey
iversity’s jury announced the 10 winners of its MOOC Production Fellowship contest. It will launch the courses for students in Germany, Europe and the rest of the world. Our view is that it is interesting – and a little surprising – that all the winners were from Europe. The list of finalists we looked at showed many good proposals from North America and other parts of the world, many with sexier ideas and titles than their European counterparts. So it makes us wonder if the contest was really ever a global one or just appeared to be so? Anyways, it’s great to have MOOC players emerging from Europe, including iversity. But perhaps they should have been more up front that it was an EU competition?
Via Kim Flintoff
Two Spanish-language MOOCs about REA -- openly-licensed under Creative Commons -- are available.
The EDEN Annual Conference is organized in Oslo, May 12-15, 2013. The Nordic Open Education Alliance will be present and introduce its initiative and ideas. Join the discussion using the Twitter Tag #NordicOER online or meet us at the conference Friday, 14.06, from 12.45 to 14.00 in the session on OER.
Via Alastair Creelman
CC BY is not essential for Open Access. However, making a paper Open Access without the CC BY licence, or with a more restrictive type of Creative Commons licence (e.g. CC BY-ND or CC BY-NC), may mean that a reader must still obtain your specific permission to adapt the work and/or use it for commercial purposes.
The different flavours of CC licence enable you to be more restrictive if you want to be, but obviously the Government/RCUK wants its publicly funded research to be as unrestricted as possible.
CC BY just gives a more liberal blanket permission for some actions.
Via Andreas Link
Intellectual property battles in the MOOC age are a “last stand” in the fight for academic freedom, a longtime evangelist of the topic told university professors here Wednesday.
The startpage that connects and organize all your favorite links, bookmarks, social networks, favorite online services, into one single beautiful interface.
Via Nik Peachey
Right now, the government awards road-building contracts to large construction companies. But imagine the government decided to end these contracts, and to simply grant anyone who wanted to build a road a license to build a road.
Via Andreas Link
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