We can cut off its head, fill its mouth with garlic, and drive a stake through its body, but we apparently can’t kill a well-designed, engaging, dynamic learning experience and the community of learning it spawns. Nor would we want to.…
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Loading...I recently started another online course about how to teach online. This act usually is followed by more blog posts, as I try to make sense of my learning, but so far this hasn’t happened. The first week stimulated the usual flurry of enthusiasm and creative thought. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Grade Change: Tracking Online Education in the United States, 2013:
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“The Babson Survey Research Group has charted the growth of online education annually for more than a decade with support from the Sloan Consortium and other partners. The latest survey, conducted last year, asked chief academic officers at 2,831 colleges and universities about online…
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The linked article covers the story of a “school without teachers.” According to the story, the school exists as a place for grouped computer-based instruction. Students must compete for spots and, if they get in, will predominantly spend their days learning to code.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So we’ve been building a new digital humanities tool “Huma Bird Project” and we used it to analyse the #digped hybrid pedagogy chat on twitter
It shows some interesting possibilities for analysis
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So can you measure a cMOOC? Or elsewhere and elsewhere too – well I suggest that xMOOCs can via the ever stalking Analytics monster can measure, or at least pertain to measure, which may be in honesty all we can claim to do.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So we have our xMOOC / cMOOC – tomato / tomato split forming. A schism over beard lengths and the best hat to please god will soon no doubt ensue. Sadly, and it is always sadly these days we can possible consider another way of distinguishing between the two groups.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...So in the great dictionary battle over what open means, many see MOOCs as being disruptive innovation or some such not only to lecture theatre bricks and mortar but then also to OERs and the general concept of openness. Openess measured as some fraction of ajar and not instead as in permissive or flexible.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Aren’t silos evil. Just evil. That whole corn storing thing they do is just so unjust. Personally I advocate storing all corn in my cheeks like an agrarian hamster combine harvester.
Now I don’t need to worry what happens to the silo, and as I long as I don’t cough I’ll be fine…..…
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I write code, I seem to be ok doing it, but sometimes I want to write the machine in War Games or HAL or the stuff Richard Pryor does in Superman 2 except the bit when the small Russian Lady ends up like a build your own Cyberman.…
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