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Though the title of this article I wrote says 10 years, it may be more or less (and given the pace of change, I would lean towards sooner rather than later).
If you haven’t read Christensen’s/Horn’s/Johnson’s work re: disruption — such as Disrupting Class and/or The Innovator’s Dilemma — it would be worth your time to do so.…
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Loading... (No Ratings Yet)Loading...The professors who make the MOOCs – from The Chronicle by Steve Kolowich
Excerpt:
Like many professors at top-ranked institutions, Mr. Sedgewick was very skeptical about online education. But he was intrigued by the notion of bringing his small Princeton course on algorithms, which he had taught for five years, to a global audience.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...PayWizard launches first dedicated payment and subscriber management solution for TV and media industry — from PayWizard
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London, 21 February 2013 – PayWizard, specialists in payment and subscription management, has launched the TV and media industry’s first dedicated, end to end payment and subscription solution.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The Professors’ Big Stage – op-ed from the New York Times by Thomas Friedman
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I just spent the last two days at a great conference convened by M.I.T. and Harvard on “Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education” — a k a “How can colleges charge $50,000 a year if my kid can learn it all free from massive open online courses?”…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Expert panel brings clarity to MOOCs in Business+MOOCs Hangout — fron onlinelearninginsights.wordpress.com
The Business+MOOC Panel
Host: Jay Cross
Educators: Dave Cormier, Stephen Downes, Terri Griffith and George Siemens
Business People: Jos Arets, Bert De Coutere, Lal Jones-Beyy (from Coursera) Mark Finnern, Jerry Michalski
Also see:
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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.…
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Below are some reflections after seeing these items:
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Your Massively Open Offline College Is Broken — by Clay Shirky
Excerpt (emphasis DSC):
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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