Online learning platforms or E-Learning has become very popular nowadays offering thousands of different courses from Business, Marketing, Science and Health. We have listed 6 of the best learning platform, free & paid, for you entrepreneur or not to gain new skills.
This blog is about the current learning revolution and the education paradigm shift taking place globally. It is also about the role that teacherpreneurs need to play to benefit both altruistically and financially as they fully exploit the tools of the internet to meet the growing needs of the learner hungry people of the planet.
What happens when the "sharing economy" meets higher education?
Peter John Baskerville's insight:
In its short history, the Internet has given voice to millions of people with something to say. First came blogging, then social-media curation. Perhaps online education will be the next great form of digitized democratized expression. And if that happens, colleges will have to reckon with it—and college professors may lose their once-exclusive franchise on authority.
The progression of where online learning started and how it has grown is really quite staggering, especially since it has only become a discussion staple for most of us pretty recently. The handy infographic below gives us an interesting timeline of digital learning, shows some of the different categories that digital learning comprises, and offers up some interesting statistics on the number of people participating in online learning and the growth that it has seen over the years
The startup said it's closing in on a million students and serves up more than 8,000 courses. But the real stunner is the money earned by the site's top instructors.
1. Meaning is social constructed and contextually reinvented 2. Technology is everywhere (digital universe). 3. Teaching is done teacher-to-student, student-to-student, and people-technology-people (co-constructivism) 4. Schools are located everywhere (fully infused in society) 5. Parents view schools as a place for them to learn, too 6. Teachers are everybody, everywhere 7. Hardware and software in schools are available at low cost and are used (strategically) 8. Industry views graduates as co-workers or entrepreneurs
Hotelier Middle East CASE STUDY: iPad revolution Hotelier Middle East “In the classroom setting at César Ritz Colleges, students and teachers work together, learn together and generate new content to drive an education revolution.
Coursera is committed to seeing that our courses meet our students’ educational goals, from simply experiencing the joy of learning something new, to seeking improved employment opportunities, to...
Massive open online courses—dubbed MOOCs—have lured venture investors and universities, who have put millions of dollars into companies that partner with schools or instructors to offer free courses.
Cutting out the middleman in higher education, or disintermediation, could be a boon for professors. If the approach pioneered by StraighterLine and Udemy takes off, adjunct professors in particular could have a new avenue to hawk their wares.
Peter John Baskerville's insight:
New online platforms are allowing professors, teacherpreneurs and people with extensive industry knowledge to create new revenue streams without the need to secure Educational Instutional employment.
It may not be news to the 1.5 million college graduates struggling to find a job or toiling behind café counters, but Northeastern University researchers break it down: 53.6 percent of bachelor's degree-holders under age of 25 were jobless or underemployed last year, the highest percentage since the dot-com bubble of 2000. In the last year, college graduates were more likely to be employed as servers, bartenders, and food-service helpers than as engineers, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians combined. The class of 2012 is about to get a gigantic wake-up call.
Peter John Baskerville's insight:
The statistics are showing that there is something fundamentally wrong with our higher education system when 1 in 2 graduates are unemployed or under-employed. We are failing our kids and leaving them with huge debts. Higher education needs to urgently reconnect with industry and teach skills that industry needs to industry best practice standards.
"A new report by Moody’s Investors Service suggests that while MOOCs’ exploitation of expanded collaborative networks and technological innovation will benefit higher education in the United States as a whole, their long-term effect on the for-profit sector and smaller not-for-profit institutions could be damaging."
You know when creative disruption is taking place when organisations like accounting firms and venture capitalists that are far removed from the main players can see it happening. Moody's is the latest non-edu institution to see the revolution in education taking place with the tsunami that is MOOCs.
What is perhaps most interesting about this, is that Moody's - yes, they - are interested in MOOCs at all. This shows that xMOOCs (unlike cMOOCs) are an innovation in the costing of Higher Ed., not their pedagogy. So, we do not get better education with them, but a more affordable education, if indeed we do. University World News agrees: "But the important development associated with MOOCs is that they are able to offer exponentially larger enrolments. And, with these, the potential profits are much larger." I suggest we acknowledge that xMOOCs make for lousy pedagogy and only value them for what they are, a means to make higher education cheaper. Then we can at least start talking about the question of whether we are ok with that. (@pbsloep, thanks to @guzdial)
Technology has enabled us to interact, innovate and share in whole new ways. This dynamic shift in mindset is creating profound change throughout our society. The Future of Learning looks at one part of that change, the potential to redefine how we learn and educate.
Peter John Baskerville's insight:
A video about the future of learning as discussed by world renowned experts and educators. They explain that traditional education as a process to create useful participants in an industrialized world is over. The age of learning begins. The traditional methods of learning based on memorization and repetition will shift to more holistic approaches that focus on individual students' needs and self expression.
Maker education is currently a major trend in education. But just saying that one is doing Maker Education really doesn't define the teaching practices that an educator is using to facilitate it. Maker education takes on many forms. This post provides an overview of how maker education is being implemented based on the teaching practices…
Udemy, launched in 2010, reports that its top 10 instructors have generated more than $US5 million in revenue so far. Many others are taking in sums that would be unheard of for a high school teacher and impressive for a university professor. A class on IT certifications and training has earned its teacher $US260,000 in a little less than two years. One on video, animation, and multimedia has brought in nearly $US150,000 in the same period
Online learning platforms or E-Learning has become very popular nowadays offering thousands of different courses from Business, Marketing, Science and Health. We have listed 6 of the best learning platform, free & paid, for you entrepreneur or not to gain new skills.
Introducing Open Badges:a new online standard to recognize and verify learning. Free and open Mozilla Open Badges is not proprietary. It’s free software and an open technical standard any organization can use to create, issue and verify digital badges. Take your badges everywhere Collect badges from multiple sources, online and off, into a single backpack. Then display your skills and achievements on social networking profiles, job sites, websites and more. Knit your skills together Whether they’re issued by one organization or many, badges can build upon each other, joining together to tell the full story of your skills and achievement. Full of information With Open Badges, every badge is full of information. Each one has important data built in that links back to the issuer, criteria and verifying evidence.
MOOCs, sensors, apps and games: The revolution in education innovation Washington Post But all of this is still just the beginning of the education revolution.
“Udacity is thrilled to announce a partnership with San Jose State University to pilot three courses—Visualizing Intermediate Algebra, College Algebra, and Elementary Statistics—available online at an affordable tuition rate and for college credit. This is the first time a MOOC has been offered for credit and purely online.”
Peter John Baskerville's insight:
University accredited courses for $150 via a MOOC at Udacity. What ever our feelings about it, higher education faces massive disruption in the years ahead as new platforms make it accessable for all, not just the privileged few.
Stanford professors Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng launched Coursera last year to give anyone and everyone access to courses from top-tier universities -- for free, online.
Peter John Baskerville's insight:
Free learning ... pay for the certification. A value add business model emerges for MOOCs.
Freelance teachers can cut out the middle man by gaining their own client base, choosing how much they wish to charge and by having more freedom in choosing their most effective teaching methodology.
A Wall Street Journal article that alerted “Consumers now owe more on their student loans than their credit cards.” was the catalist for Michael Karnjanaprakorn to think about a new way of approaching learning - so he co-created SkillShare with his friend Malcolm Ong.
Peter John Baskerville's insight:
More evidence of a severe problem in our higher education system when students are burdened with loans that they can ill afford. We need a new approach and SkillShare is offering one of them.
1) Go East! - the world’s economic center has shifted to northern Russia. By 2025, it may return to central Asia – just north of where it was a thousand years ago.
2) Urbanize - By mid-century, 80% of the world’s population will be urban, mostly in the developing world.
3) Good to the Last Drop - Oil production has already peaked in 54 out of the 65 largest oil-producing countries, including the United States. The world is not running out of oil, just cheap oil.
4) Digitize Me - Economics is becoming less about ownership and more about access.
5) Smarter, Faster, Stronger - Humanity, as a whole, is more connected, educated, and healthier than ever – and this will lead to sustained innovation.
6) Stuck in Neutral - Political gridlock has kept the difficult questions from being asked. A lack of clarity regarding future government policies has created an environment of economic uncertainty and doubt. The looming risk of collapse in some industrialized nations may open the doors for radical elements.
7) Gray Boom - The industrialized northern countries will continue to grow slowly with mature, aging populations. We expect a rise in second careers and a shift toward part-time employment and small business. The “career ladder” has been replaced by a “patchwork quilt” of work opportunities.
Educational changes predicted include online education as a Government cost cutting imperative, urbanisation leading to the demand for more education, the need for education to drive necessary innovations, Gray boom looking to teaching and mentoring as a second career.
Quite a deep synthesis of emerging trends. What is most interesting to me is the second part of the article, in which the 7 trends are conidered in combinations with one another, creating reverberating trends upon trends.
Steve Blank, serial entrepreneur and Stanford consulting associate professor, discusses the role of pattern recognition in entrepreneurship.
Peter John Baskerville's insight:
Steve Blank talks about the two forms of wisdom required of successful entrepreneurship being (1) acquiring patern recognition skills in regard to proven business models and (2) learning how to encourage your own serindipitious epifinies.
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