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Stephen Downes is a prolific writer. He covers a wide range of subjects such as: technology, learning, society, politics, and philosophy. Recently he posted an eBook on Connectivism and Connective ... 
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Pearltrees lets you collect, organize and share everything you like. (Connectivism: Learning theory of the future or vestige of the past?
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Ask questions in class, get a good grade, conventional wisdom goes. Now Stanford...
Ekaterina's curator insight,
July 24, 2013 5:26 PM
Análisis sobre la participación en los foros MOCCs. 
Sunil Malhotra's curator insight,
July 29, 2013 4:17 AM
Open might take a little time but is here to stay and there's no stopping it. Examples - Linux and wikipedia. Quality will improve iteratively not end-of-pipeline as it was in the material economy.
Sunil Malhotra's curator insight,
July 29, 2013 4:18 AM
Open might take a little time but is here to stay and there's no stopping it. Examples - Linux and wikipedia. Quality will improve iteratively not end-of-pipeline like it was in the material economy.
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Institute teams with Udacity, AT&T to launch first-of-its-kind advanced degree program.
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Image: courosa/Flickr If you?re one of the 1,000 lucky people worldwide who are: 1. Accepted to Harvard; 2. Successful in scoring a seat in Professor M
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Dr. Anthony Robinson of Penn State has pretty much completed development of the first geo-MOOC, a massive open online course titled
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The Institute of Educational Technology (IET) at the Open University connects innovation and expertise in learning and teaching and uses this collective power to change the face of education.
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It's only been a year since MOOC-mania took hold, but already it's been a wild ride, a fast-changing evolution...
Donna Rosenberger's curator insight,
July 19, 2013 2:01 PM
Students get out of classes what they put into them. I tried a Mooc and wish I had more serious about it.
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Free online courses allow anyone, regardless of educational qualifications, to study whatever they like
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From two different perspectives, MOOCs and MMOGs, there is a confluence that could be observed by the gamification of the MOOCs (trend 1) and the massification of SG (trend 2), and the educational orientation of the MMOGs (trend 3).
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In this installment of MOOCville I discuss combining #MOOCs with real-world learning experiences. http://t.co/Iwc69rMm6W
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"When Marnie Blewitt was designing her first online epigenetics course, she knew that she would need help. A geneticist at the University of Melbourne in Australia, Blewitt was new to the business of MOOCs — massive open online courses that can reach thousands or even hundreds of thousands of students around the globe."
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Professor Gilly Salmon is Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning Transformations at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne , Australia. Previously, she was the Executive Director and Professor (Lea...
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Given how new MOOCs are, it’s impossible to say what their impact will be, but one thing higher ed administrators can do right now is to focus on their mission and ask if MOOCs are a tactic to help them achieve their strategic position.
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Pam Mulready's curator insight,
July 20, 2013 9:31 PM
Perhaps a greater altruistic innovation would see the product of publicly funded research publications available to the public, rather than publishers. MOOCs perhaps maximise their consumer base, whilst access to innovative disciplinary knowledge will only be available to privileged institutional and corporate communities
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DOTCOM mania was slow in coming to higher education, but now it has the venerable industry firmly in its grip. Since the launch early last year of Udacity and...
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The paper mentions that Project Glass is a research and development program by Google to develop an augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD).
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The purpose of the research study was to develop an instructional model using Connectivism to promote creativity based on teacher professional standard for h...
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Even by the usual standard of acronyms, Mooc is particularly clumsy. But is this new buzzword the future of education?
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Silicon Valley has enthusiastically promoted MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), but some universities have decided MOOCs are not effective or appropriate for their students.
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"The providers of massive open online courses have rapidly expanded in the past year, aided in part by a series of potentially lucrative no-bid deals with public colleges and universities, including for services that may extend beyond the MOOC model."
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"Guder’s overall stance is: from subject-specific teaching, to physical space, to teaching students about Web 2.0 technologies libraries are actively involved in connectivism, however they may not be aware that they are partaking in this new theory."
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