+George Siemens puts it clearly – Udacity's failure is just Thrun's failure, nothing else. elearnspace › The Failure of Udacity Well, there it is folks. After two years of hype, breathless proclamations about how Udacity will transform higher education, Silicon Valley blindness to existing learning research, and numerous articles/interviews featuring Sebastian Thrun, Udacity has failed. […]
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CRUP | Escolas públicas preparam melhor os alunos para terem sucesso no superior
CRUP | Escolas públicas preparam melhor os alunos para terem sucesso no superior Público. 18 Janeiro 2013. quadro desempenho_universitrios As escolas privadas preparam melhor os alunos para os exames, mas não para terem um bom desempenho na universidade. A Universidade do Porto (UP) analisou o percurso académico de 4280 estudantes admitidos no ano lectivo 2008/09 […]
Is there a future for distance education?
Is there a future for distance education? This is a bit of a hoary old chestnut, as the future of distance education has been questioned for over 100 years. However, it think it is worth returning to in the light of several recent developments. Distance education is still alive and well – but for how […]
George Siemens on the role of universities
+George Siemens with a positive view on the role of universities. With slides from a recent presentation. elearnspace › How Large Systems Change Proclamations of systemic change, particularly in higher education, are more hype than reality. In spite of growing enrolments and expansion of higher education systems worldwide, a small number of folks, generally untethered […]
Lisa M Lane on student authentication
Good post by +Lisa M Lane "Student authentication and the Hays Code" http://feedly.com/k/15zMk51 Student authentication and the Hays Code « Lisa’s (Online) Teaching Blog Recently, my college (and many others) have been subjected to demands that we provide solid “authentication” of our online students, in a late and yet hurried attempt to comply with a […]
Poets always say it way better.
Poets always say it way better. Embarrassed || Spoken Word by Hollie McNish http://www.holliemcnish.bandcamp.com I wrote this poem in a public toilet after my 6 month old baby This was posted on Google+
iMOOC – Um modelo institucional para MOOCs
Apresentação no I Seminário de Inovação em Rede no Ensino Universitário a Distância – #iNOVead – a 6 de junho de 2013, no Palácio Ceia, Universidade Aberta, onde se fala do modelo da UAb.pt para MOOCs (iMOOC) e do curso piloto sobre Alterações Climáticas no contexto das experiências de vida – #imoocac13. iMOOC – […]
Apresentação no I Seminário iNOVead
Apresentação no I Seminário de Inovação em Rede no Ensino Universitário a Distância – #iNOVead – a 6 de junho de 2013, no Palácio Ceia, Universidade Aberta, onde se fala do modelo da UAb.pt para #MOOCs – #iMOOC – e do curso piloto sobre Alterações Climáticas no contexto das experiências de vida – #imoocac13 . […]
Martin Weller on Coursera’s regular online courses
+Martin Weller keeps on a good roll with another great post on MOOCs, this time about the new strategy by Coursera to offer regular online courses. So what about MOOCs, you know, those free, open courses? Is this the end of them? No, I don't think so, but maybe they can now become what we […]
Grainne Conole questions the xMOOCs / cMOOCs division
+Grainne Conole questions the xMOOCs / cMOOCs division and proposes a new classification set of twelve dimensions: the degree of openness, the scale of participation (massification), the amount of use of multimedia, the amount of communication, the extent to which collaboration is included, the type of learner pathway (from learner centred to teacher-centred and highly […]