A great interview with David Krakauer. A must watch. http://m.nautil.us/issue/23/dominoes/ingenious-david-krakauer Ingenious: David Krakauer – Issue 23: Dominoes – Nautilus One way to think about culture is as dominoes arrayed in a line, with one tipping over another, a sort of cascade of influence,… This was posted on Google+
Steve Wheeler – Not so shallow
Good post by Steve Wheeler. Not so shallow
Why video-based learning is not the best of options
Good post by Lorena A. Barba on why video-based learning is not the best of options. Why My MOOC is Not Built on Video – MOOC Report A MOOC professor takes a contrarian view and creates a MOOC without relying on videos, and makeing the claim that they are not necessary for a meaningful online […]
Language MOOCs
“Language MOOCs: Providing Learning, Transcending Boundaries” published, with a free online version. António Teixeira and I contributed with Chapter 3 – “A Proposal for the Methodological Design of Collaborative Language MOOCs“.
David Wiley on xMOOCs
An essay (pre-print) by +David Wiley on MOOCs (more specifically, xMOOCS of the Coursera/Udacity type) and Open Education. A must read to clarify some important issues that seem to be overlooked by most MOOC providers. The MOOC Misstep and the Open Education Infrastructure The following is a pre-print of an essay set to appear in […]
Purdue creates competency degree program
This is an interesting development regarding higher education. Purdue creates competency degree program, by Haley Dover, Journal Courier. Purdue University on Thursday introduced a competency degree program, putting students in control of their education. The College of Technology program allows students to progress at their own rate as they demonstrate mastery of specific skills, … […]
Are PLEs still relevant?
From his brand new home on the web, Martin Weller asks Why don’t we talk about PLEs anymore? and then provides a handful of reasons. He is mostly right if one accepts his idea of the concept which, in my opinion, is an oversimplified view of what a PLE is, focusing on the tools only. […]
George Siemens on Udacity
George Siemens puts it clearly – Udacity’s failure is just Thrun’s failure, nothing else. 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. No one did more of a […]
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. How Large Systems Change, by gsiemens / Sep 4, 2013 at 12:18 AM 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 from […]