“Facebook Schools MOOCs on Engagement.” That’s a provocative title. It’s also beyond hollow.
Sure? There’s plenty of research about folly of discussion forum. Meeting at local DMV likely better for engagement. https://t.co/dU2ybk11U9
— Rolin Moe (@RMoeJo) May 24, 2016
The research at the heart of this EdSurge buzz, coming out of Penn State, looked at three Coursera MOOCs and their supplemental faculty-run Facebook pages. …
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Loading...…For example, teaching digital skills would include showing students how to download images from the Internet and insert them into PowerPoint slides or webpages. Digital literacy would focus on helping students choose appropriate images, recognize copyright licensing, and cite or get permissions, in addition to reminding students to use alternative text for images to support those with visual disabilities.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Last week, Melissa Kearney of the University of Maryland & Phil Levine of Wellesley College received a great deal of media attention for their in-process paper Early Childhood Education by MOOC: Lessons from Sesame Street. Asserting that research on Sesame Street & educational efficacy is lacking and has failed to engage beyond the immediate or short-term results, Kearney & Levine designed an apparatus in an attempt to find a correlation between exposure to Sesame Street and longitudinal outcomes such as high school graduation or post-school labor gains. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Last week, Melissa Kearney of the University of Maryland & Phil Levine of Wellesley College received a great deal of media attention for their in-process paper Early Childhood Education by MOOC: Lessons from Sesame Street. Asserting that research on Sesame Street & educational efficacy is lacking and has failed to engage beyond the immediate or short-term results, Kearney & Levine designed an apparatus in an attempt to find a correlation between exposure to Sesame Street and longitudinal outcomes such as high school graduation or post-school labor gains. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This post, co-authored with Katia Hildebrandt, originally appeared on the Canadian Education Association Blog.
Recently, pre-service teachers in two of our classes at the Faculty of Education,University Regina, participated in #saskedchat, a weekly Twitter chat hosted by and for Saskatchewan educators.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Last week I became a Splash ambassador. Splash is an Australian website run by the ABC which collates high quality content to share with Australian educators, parents and students. It includes videos, audio clips, games and interactives which can be used across all year groups.…
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I’ve been following a Chicago Tribune series titled “A New Plan of Chicago” since last October when it was launched. Sunday’s article focuses on improving the lives of disadvantaged Chicagoans. I encourage you to read it and other articles in this series and engage people in your own family, business and faith network in this process.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Yesterday I wrote an article pointing out how the Polk Bros retail stores used advertising to build attention and draw customers to their stores, and how they used events, sales promotions, give-aways, etc. to motivate customers to buy something when they came to those stores, they definitely know the power behind using systems like the ones Salesforce offers.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...On January 8 I attended the Polk Bros Foundation’s 25th Anniversary. I wrote about that in this article.
While leaving the event I was given a copy of a book titled “I Bought It at Polk Bros: The Story of an American Retailing Phenomenon”.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I was asked by Rachael Bath about how I get around international content restrictions (i.e., location-based content blocking). There are two tools that I typically use. First, I pay about $70/year for a full-featured VPN service called Witopia that allows me to get around content restrictions, as well as providing me with other privacy and security features.…
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