Koulutuksen virtuaalinen tulevaisuus. Kuva: Alusta! ’I think you just got the glimpse of the future of education’ (Bill Gates) Alustus! Khan Akatemian kehitti Salman Khan, bostonilainen pörssianalyytikko, joka opetti New Orleanissa asuville serkuilleen matematiikkaa etänä ja latasi kokeilumielessä pari videota YouTubeen. Nähtyään videot Khanin serkut ilmoittivat katsovansa mieluummin niitä kuin Khanin reaaliaikaista live-opetusta. Khan alkoi myös saada positiivista palautetta ihmisiltä eri puolelta maailmaa: ’Ensimmäistä kertaa hymyilin derivoidessani’. Khanin serkut olivat oikeassa: Keskimääräisellä koulun matematiikantunnilla terävimmät oppilaat kyllästyvät, heikoimmat tipahtavat ja keskiverto-oppilaat hyötyvät tilanteesta eniten. Hekään eivät – toisin kuin Khan Akatemiassa – voi tai kehtaa pysäyttää opetustilannetta ja ’kelata takaisin’ niin usein kuin haluaisivat. Tällä hetkellä Khan työskentelee päätoimisesti akatemiassaan, joka sisältää yli 3000 opetusvideota lukuisista oppiaineista.
The 1-minute guide to MOOCs. Photo by Mavis If you’re wondering what MOOCs are about, here’s a brief overview. All in 1 minute. For fast readers. What is a MOOC? A MOOC is a Massive Open Online Course. How does a MOOC work? MOOCs are free, with a handful of tutors/facilitators, and possibly thousands of students. The more connectivist orientated MOOCs – or cMOOCs - tend to have little or no ‘content’ as such.
Typically any MOOC will have a core of active learners, and a larger body of ‘lurkers’ (passive onlookers). Why the fuss? Given the high percentage of lurkers and dropouts on MOOCs, there is some debate around whether participants actually ‘learn’ anything, and how (or indeed whether) this learning should be assessed. There is also some discussion about how these MOOCs can sustain a long-term business model – or indeed whether they should. What MOOCs are on offer? What about MOOCs for EFL/ESL teachers? The closest we currently get to MOOCs in ELT are the open online courses offered by SEETA.
Other 1-minute guides: A Quick Guide To The History Of MOOCs. This Is How Students Use School Websites 8.45K Views 0 Likes It's important to have a proper appearance online. So why are there so many unhelpful school websites out there? This infographic shares what students want. Why TED Talks Have Become So Popular 5.67K Views 0 Likes TED talks are useful and free ways to bring high-level thinking and through-provoking ideas into the classroom and your home. 40 Useful Tips For Anyone Taking A MOOC. As these resources have grown in number and the list of institutions providing them has become ever more prestigious, free online courses are gaining legitimacy with employers as a method of learning valuable job skills.
While there’s still a long way to go in terms of acceptance, more and more employers are recognizing the value of cheap, effective educational programs that can keep employees up-to-date and engaged in their field without spending a dime. Whether you’re looking to online education for personal reasons or to get ahead in your career, use these tips to help you get more out of open courses and use what you learn to market yourself, improve your performance, and stand out on the job. Treat them like real classes . If you really want to take away a lot from a free online course, then don’t treat it any differently than you would a course you’ve paid to take. Mooc : le big bang | Le blog de Christine Vaufrey. Il est extrêmement difficile d’avoir une vision générale de l’état de la formation à distance dans les établissements d’enseignement supérieur français. Elle existe dans de nombreux établissements, mais sous différentes formes et dans des proportions différentes, relativement à la formation en présence qui reste évidemment la modalité de formation massivement privilégiée.
J’ai entendu dire, voici déjà longtemps, que la Mission numérique de la Direction générale our l’enseignement supérieur et l’insertion professionnelle souhaitait commander une étude à ce sujet. Mais je n’ai vu aucune publication sur ce thème. Peut-être que je cherche mal. Quoi qu’il en soit, on ne peut qu’être frappé de la relative discrétion des établissements français en matière de formation à distance, surtout face à leurs homologues anglo-saxons. Les universités nord-américaines (USA et Canada) proposent systématiquement des cours à distance. Face à Coursera, Udemy, EdX… en France, nous avons les UNT. 5 Potential Ways MOOCs Will Evolve. In order to understand where MOOCs are heading (at least taking a stab at guessing their future), it’s important to know what the stated goals are. In case you’re still new to MOOCs, here’s a helpful rundown of the guiding principles behind MOOCs : Aggregation.
The whole point of a connectivist MOOC is to provide a starting point for a massive amount of content to be produced in different places online, which is later aggregated as a newsletter or a web page accessible to participants on a regular basis. This is in contrast to traditional courses, where the content is prepared ahead of time. The second principle is remixing, that is, associating materials created within the course with each other and with materials elsewhere. Re-purposing of aggregated and remixed materials to suit the goals of each participant. An earlier list (2005) of Connectivist principles from Siemens also informs the pedagogy behind MOOCs: Learning and knowledge rest in diversity of opinions. MOOCs and OERs. MOOCs and Hype Again. I have a confession to make. I dropped out of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Artificial Intelligence at Stanford university in the Fall of 2011. There were over 160,000 other students in the class from all over the world. I listened to the two professors on my laptop give mini-lectures, watched fast hands scrawl quickly and cleverly over whiteboards to graphically display the concepts they were teaching.
I found the information fascinating. I took a few quizzes. Then I fell behind and realized that I couldn’t keep up, given the other things I was doing so I dropped out. MOOCs have soared in popularity as the “disruptive innovation” that will revolutionize higher education. Right before our eyes we are experiencing the very beginning of the hype cycle. My guess is that the Artificial Intelligence course at Stanford in 2011 triggered the cycle. Technology Trigger: A potential technology breakthrough kicks things off. Like this: Like Loading... Where MOOCs Miss the Mark: The Student-Teacher Relationship. The mistake about MOOCs (massive open online courses) is that they discount the central component of effective teaching -- the relationship forged between student and teacher. Sure, students around the world gain access to previously inaccessible and unimaginable content from some of the world's renowned universities and professors from MIT, Harvard and Stanford.
These students can grow inspired by the possibility of absorbing information through online lectures and platforms, as 12-year-old Khadija Niazi of Pakistan explained recently at the World Economic Forum. The New York Times reported, "Ms. Niazi has been taking courses, free so far, from Udacity and Coursera, two of the earliest providers of this new form of instruction. Her latest enthusiasm is for astrobiology, because she is fascinated by UFOs and wants to become a physicist. " This is nothing short of amazing and shows the flattening of the education world. Do you have any experience with MOOCs? Major players in online education market. Major players in online education market Comparing Khan Academy, Coursera, Udacity, & edX missions, offerings September 4, 2012 With most new markets comes competition, as is the case with online education.
Today, there are four major platforms that produce content specifically for online instruction: Coursera, Udacity, and edX, which provide university-level content, and Khan Academy, which largely targets K-12 education. Khan Academy is an educational nonprofit founded in September 2008 by Salman A. Khan conceived the idea after making a website to help tutor his niece in 2004, and two years later he would post the first public video. Most of the videos, which tend to be around 10–15 minutes long, are on YouTube, with the exception of the Computer Science section, which contains integrated coding. The instruction is oriented toward the casual learner as a supplement to traditional classroom learning.
Udacity has a unique system of certifications. Major Players in the MOOC Universe - The Digital Campus 2013. 5 Ways edX Could Change Education. After the initial announcement of Harvard and MIT’s collaborative learning platform, edX, earlier this year, I speculated that it might have several things to teach the world about e-learning and education in general. The possible research contributions of edX to education that I proposed at the time were: students like learning with technology; gamification works; peer-enabled learning is effective; time should be a variable in learning not a constant; and that teaching innovation isn’t easy. Chronicle reporter Marc Parry recently visited the edX office on the MIT campus and uncovered the actual facts behind the developing research agenda at edX.
Here is a look at what the researchers at MIT and Harvard intend to investigate and an evaluation of the evolving edX agenda. 1. Engaging Alumni in New Ways In one MIT computer science class, there were so many participants and code to evaluate, that instructors simply could not keep up with the workload. 2. 3. 4. 5. MOOC | MOOC - Massiivinen avoin verkkokurssi. Let's Rock: Ohjelmoinnin peruskoulu-MOOCista "somekoulukerho" MOOC = massiivinen avoin online kurssi. Viimeisen vuoden kuumimpia juttuja opetuksen kehittämisessä Helsingin Yliopiston ohjelmoinnin MOOC = ensimmäisen kerran viime keväänä. Alkoi eilen toista kertaa (ja etuajassa! Se kertoo jotain tämän hankkeen hengestä) Kurssilla voi kuka tahansa suorittaa 5op+4op yliopistokurssin ohjelmoinnista ja vieläpä saada sen kautta opinto-oikeuden yliopistoon! Todella cool! Ja tämä MOOC siis käsittelee Java-ohjelmointia.
Opiskelijan pitää asentaa NetBeans-ympäristö, jossa tehtävät tehdään. Historiaa Itse teimme poikani kanssa viime keväänä MOOCia muutaman viikon. Mooc on käynnistynyt uudelleen. Nyt haluan lyödä yhteen HY:n huippuhankkeen sekä oman osaamisen ja tehtäväkuvan: Tehdään peruskoululaisia ja lukiolaisiakin hyödyttävä rakenne, jolla oppija saa vertaistukea ja ryhmähenkeä, ohjaustakin ikätasolle sopivalla tavalla. Lähden heti viemään tätä eteenpäin, mutta kaipaan sekä apua että ideoita. Kommentteja? Eliademy.com. The 11 Most Popular Open Online Courses. This Is How Students Use School Websites 8.45K Views 0 Likes It's important to have a proper appearance online. So why are there so many unhelpful school websites out there? This infographic shares what students want. The 7 Critical Services All Libraries Should Offer 8.78K Views 0 Likes Libraries are changing.
In 2012, the biggest changes on the Web were in online education, social networks, and the increasing use of smartphones and tablets. Live and learn: Everybody went mobile in 2012 (or so it seemed), but the most groundbreaking movement on the Web may have been the rise of digital education. For all the attention lavished on the Web’s growth on mobile devices this year, one of the most interesting Internet trends is still best experienced on a desktop computer: online education. The rising cost of higher education (the average bachelor’s degree now costs more than $100,000), combined with increasing access to high-speed Internet service and a desire for more efficient and flexible learning methods, brought new prominence to websites offering free or low-priced courses in everything from programming to literature.
Free online code-learning startup Codecademy’s effort to teach novices to code snagged more than 400,000 participants for its weekly lessons in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Another segment of the Web that experienced major changes in 2012 was social networking. Heli connecting ideas. Free education: Learning new lessons. TOP-QUALITY teaching, stringent admissions criteria and impressive qualifications allow the world’s best universities to charge mega-fees: over $50,000 for a year of undergraduate study at Harvard. Less exalted providers have boomed too, with a similar model that sells seminars, lectures, exams and a “salad days” social life in a single bundle. Now online provision is transforming higher education, giving the best universities a chance to widen their catch, opening new opportunities for the agile, and threatening doom for the laggard and mediocre.
The roots are decades old. Britain’s Open University started teaching via radio and television in 1971; the for-profit University of Phoenix has been teaching online since 1989; MIT and others have been posting lectures on the internet for a decade. But the change in 2012 has been electrifying. In April two of Mr Thrun’s ex-colleagues, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, launched a rival, Coursera, with $16m in venture capital. Republic of Letters.