A MOOC Delusion: Why Visions to Educate the World Are Absurd - WorldWise. The following is a guest post by Ghanashyam Sharma, an assistant professor in writing and rhetoric at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. —————————————————————————————— As The Chronicle recently reported, perhaps the most prominent motivation among professors at prestigious universities for teaching massively open online courses, or MOOCs, is “altruism—a desire to increase access to higher education worldwide.”
In itself, the desire to increase access to quality education for millions across the world is a laudable one. After seven years of being within American academe, first as a graduate student and now as an instructor, I share that desire. But I don’t share the delusion that seems to be the basis for the excitement over MOOCs among my colleagues here in the United States. Knowledge Management, Content Management, SharePoint - KMWorld Magazine. How to Make a Girl Want You and Think Of You Sexually. Girls may get drawn to a guy for his personality.
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By Gretchen Livingston and D’Vera Cohn The U.S. birth rate dipped in 2011 to the lowest ever recorded, led by a plunge in births to immigrant women since the onset of the Great Recession.
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In addition to the birth rate decline, the number of U.S. births, which had been rising since 2002, fell abruptly after 2007—a decrease also led by immigrant women. Www.amplifi.mobi/KMcourse/StoryofKM.pdf. Critical Story Sharing as Communicative Action in Organisational Change. 10 Types Of Content We All Crave: Content Marketer’s Essential Guide. 56inShareinShare56 We now live in an attention economy, where it’s harder and harder to get the attention of multitasking multi-device consumers.
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Gopnik's findings are described in the Sept 28 issue of the journal Science. She spoke about her work in a video briefing with NSF. New research methods and mathematical models provide a more precise and formal way to characterize children's learning mechanisms than in the past. Why KM isn’t going away anytime soon « Matthew Loxton's KM & OL Blog. There have been a fair number of people in the blogosphere over the last few years who have trumpeted that KM is “Dead” – some of them mean it in an ironic way or simply as a provocative hook to get eyeballs on their blogs, some think the way we understand KM is changing and that the old ways are “dead”, and some actually believe that KM is a term best ceded to IT and that the next shiny thing beckons – be that complexity, agile, or something else.
The real acid test is whether there is an increase in the number of jobs that are either about KM or require some degree of expertise in it, and whether they mention KM activities or compliance with KM practices as an essential part of jobs – But this is something I can’t answer just yet, since getting Monster, Indeed, etc. to pony up data on what KM jobs there were over the past decades is not easy. Until then, let’s look at three things that would individually drive a need for Knowledge Management.
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