Hoger Onderwijs 3.0

comprehensive indeed - author has participated in a lot of moocs. Very readable intro for those who have never heard of moocs

Interesting and detailed personal insight into cMOOCs and xMOOCs from a participant. I sincerely hope more learners take the time to reflect and share the experiences they have with this kind of learning context. I find as an educator that the student voice is important and assuming that the developers of MOOCs are prepared to listen to critique, both postive and negative, then this is a valuable factor which can lead to improvements which hopefully will have a positive effect on the learner experience and quality of learning.

MOOCs are not going away!

Very balanced article from Times Educational Supplement. Sahlberg, Barber, Schleiger and others weigh in on the positive and negative sides of international rankings. I think Barber's view is definitely contaminated. He's working for Pearson. Schleiger has to much confidence in the data. That always seems to be the blind spot of statisticians. Sahlberg as always has the most nuances view. We would do well to heed his message in the Netherlands.

Onlangs is editie twee van 4W gepubliceerd. In dit wetenschappelijke tijdschrift van Kennisnet gaan onderzoekers in op opbrengsten en werking van ict in het onderwijs. Maar ook op praktijkvragen die nog niet beantwoord zijn.

Discussion of the utility of online curation for oneself and others; importance of tagging (also important on Scoop.it): "I am carefully thinking about future keywords I might be searching for in order to recall a particular tweet (s)."

Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano has an interesting and highly visual post on collecting vs. curating with Twitter, and on the curation potential Twitter has in store for those involved in education.

She quotes Mike Fisher writing: "Collecting is what kids do when asked to find resources for a particular topic. Usually, it represents the first 3 or 4 hits on a Google search, without meaning, discernment, or connections.

Curating is different. It’s the Critical Thinker’s collection, and involves several nuances (see Figure 1) that separate it as an independent and classroom-worthy task."

Useful. Resourceful. 7/10

Full article: http://langwitches.org/blog/2013/01/03/twitter-as-a-curation-tool/# 

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Robin's curated posts hits it on the nail with the distinct differences and although I like the visual aspects of the post, I struggle with referring to Twitter as a curating tool.

It is certainly a critical tool for collecting, researching and having the conversations. I think there is a challenge on how to effectively curate with Twitter. I know many use Storify to do this which is often a re- representationof the tweets.

 I am very interested in how Twitter will use Summnify aand Posterous in the field of curation.

As a result, I really likw the distinctions made and the logic the author takes us through. I would  perhaps be a little more cautious with referring  Twitter as a curation tool.

Useful 6/10

Curated by Shirley Williams.

Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano has an interesting and highly visual post on collecting vs. curating with Twitter, and on the curation potential Twitter has in store for those involved in education.

She quotes Mike Fisher writing: "Collecting is what kids do when asked to find resources for a particular topic. Usually, it represents the first 3 or 4 hits on a Google search, without meaning, discernment, or connections.

Curating is different. It’s the Critical Thinker’s collection, and involves several nuances (see Figure 1) that separate it as an independent and classroom-worthy task."

Useful. Resourceful. 7/10

Full article: http://langwitches.org/blog/2013/01/03/twitter-as-a-curation-tool/#