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It’s not unusual for a science fiction television show to spin off a video game. What is unusual is linking the show and the game together on an ongoing basis, with plot elements and characters from each crossing over to the other.…
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While I think MOOCs have a ways to go, I continue to support them because they are forcing higher ed to innovate and experiment more. But the conversation continues to move away from traditional higher ed, as the changes — especially the prices — aren’t changing fast enough.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Beyond voice recognition: It’s the age of intelligent systems – from forbes.com by Eric Savitz; with thanks to Steve Knode (steveknode.com) for posting this on his recent newsletter
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But the pace of innovation continues. Expect the current generation of virtual personal assistants to evolve into ubiquitous intelligent systems.…
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Building on the success of the Stanford Online High School (OHS), OHSx will allow middle- and high-school students everywhere to engage in real-time, seminar-based online courses without being formally enrolled in the OHS.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Apple University hires another high-profile academic – from by Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Berkeley’s Morten Hansen, co-author of Jim Collins’ latest bestseller, joined in January
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FORTUNE — Apple University has always been something of a stealth operation. It was created as a kind of in-house MBA program by Steve Jobs, a self-taught business leader who made no secret of his distaste for conventional MBAs.…
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Below are some reflections after seeing these items:
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...YouTube another MOOP (Massive Open Online Pedagogy) Learning will not be televised, it will be digitised. – from Donald Clark
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More pedagogic change in 10 years than last 1000 years: Donald Clark at TEDxGlasgow
Some notes I took:
Lecture capture:
Khan Academy:
Sebastian Thrun
Social media
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On notice, again – from insidehighered.com by Libby A. Nelson
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WASHINGTON — President Obama on Tuesday night called for major changes to the criteria accreditors use to evaluate colleges, asking Congress to either require accreditors to take college prices and educational value into account or to create an alternative system based on “performance and results.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken — by Clay Shirky
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This is the background to the entire conversation around higher education: Things that can’t last don’t. This is why MOOCs matter. Not because distance learning is some big new thing or because online lectures are a solution to all our problems, but because they’ve come along at a time when students and parents are willing to ask themselves, “Isn’t there some other way to do this?”…
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