by gary575 | May 19, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
This Brain Pickings article on “independent” learning is cast as a review of a new book, “Don’t Go Back to School: A Handbook for Learning Anything” by Kio Stark. The article, however raises a number of interesting points beyond the...
by gary575 | May 8, 2013 | Uncategorized
The attached published paper offers some interesting observations, valid or not, on learning in general and MOOCs in specific. Two that hit me: 1) “…the evidence suggests that there is no reason to believe that MOOCs are any less effective a learning...
by gary575 | Apr 30, 2013 | Uncategorized
There is an article in the NYT today regarding universities integrating on-line education, focusing on remedial training. I was struck by the statement: “Nearly half of all undergraduates in the United States arrive on campus needing remedial work before they...
by kris | Apr 18, 2013 | BEST LINKS EVER
Inge de Waard the author of the ebook on how to set up a MOOC shares her experience setting up the Mobimooc 2012 as well as research on best practices from MOOC history. MOOC history maybe limited, but I do appreciate learning from the innovators testing the...
by gary575 | Apr 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Online Education Trumps the Cost Disease by Alex Tabarrok on April 16, 2013 at 7:32 am in Economics, Education, Web/Tech | Permalink In a large, randomized experiment Bowen et al. found that students enrolled in an online/hybrid statistics course learned just as much...
