by gary575 | Aug 9, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Though the group might be interested in this message I received from a fellow Carnegie-Mellon Alum: My name is Yush, and I graduated from CMU 2010, where I studied Electrical and Computer Engineering. I’ve been working on an initiative whose mission is to make a...
by gary575 | Aug 1, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
This Reuters article speaks to the trade-offs between higher ed labor costs and success rates as we try to extend higher ed to less motivated and prepared learners. The California statistics cited are pretty telling: By way of illustration, consider the four-year and...
by andflywrite | Jul 26, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Pushback getting fiercer: rant in Slate about everything wrong with MOOC. We believe that the Social Learning Construct (SLC) is very important, and that it depends on, in part, creating dynamic inter-relations between and among students and “teachers”....
by kris | Jul 22, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
More thoughts from Inge de Waard’s blog sharing a slideshare on how mobile learning may be part of a successful MOOC learning environment. Inge discusses how mlearning leads to more interactions and more reflection. By understanding what the learner is...
by gary575 | Jul 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
I was completely blown away by this – Colorado State offers accreditation for MOOC courses for $89 and has no takers – ZERO in one year. I am sure there are a lot of moving parts here, but an element that I have not paid much attention to is that college...
