Udacity | Free Online Courses. Advance your College Education & Career. Decentralizing education: how startups are dismantling the university. (Credit: stock image) Dale J. Stephens leads UnCollege, the social movement changing the notion that college is the only path to success. His first book, Hacking Your Education, will be published by Penguin in 2013.
Also see the three related posts today (below). Student/teacher interaction “What about student/teacher interaction? Every seasoned supporter of self-directed education has faced questions like this. But what about higher education? UnCollege has written posts with an in-depth look at specific startups, such as Udacity, but here we’re going to take a high-level approach and see how the startup community is providing benefits that traditional higher education institutions claim to have a monopoly on. Content delivery If you’ve been following trends in higher education at all, the idea that universities don’t have an edge on content delivery won’t be surprising to you.
Code School is all about not just learning but creation.. Livemocha is an online language learning platform. Flipclass and Gamification. Institute of Play. Flippedlearning.org. Inanimate Alice - Homepage. Flipped Classroom. How flipping works for you Save time; stop repeating yourself Record re-usable video lessons, so you don't have to do it again next year. It's easy to make minor updates to perfect lessons over time once the initial recording is done.
Let students take control of their learning Not all students learn at the same pace. Spend more time with students Build stronger student-teacher relationships, and promote higher level thinking. Other teachers are doing it, you can too Stacey Roshan found that the traditional classroom model wasn't cutting it for her AP students, so she flipped her class. Watch Stacey's Story Crystal Kirch started using videos as instructional tools in her class but soon realized the real value of flipping lectures was being able to spend more face-to-face time with students.
Read Crystal's Story Tools You Can Use. Classroom Game Design: Paul Andersen at TEDxBozeman.