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Over Onderwijs | Mevrouw Ezzeroili, ik ben niet dé Nederlander maar uw buurman Laila Ezzeroili publiceerde vandaag op de site van de Volkskrant een felle opinie naar aanleiding van het gewraakte ‘Marokkanendebat’ in de Tweede Kamer. ‘Ik erger me,’ schrijft ze. ‘Steeds meer. Aan de Nederlanders. Ezzeroili begint haar stuk al mopperend met: ‘Mijn jongste dochter zit op een voorschool in een Amsterdamse probleemwijk. Ten eerste juich ik, toevallig ook bewoner van dat stadsdeel met schoolgaande kinderen, het aandachtige oog van een school juist toe; een ouderavond waar een ander familielid bij aanwezig moet zijn omdat moeder of vader de taal niet kent, vind ik eerlijk gezegd inderdaad ‘onaf’. Ezzeroili omschrijft de staatsbemoeienis als een moderne dictatuur, ze meent zelfs dat het verschijnsel voorschool (om taalachterstanden te signaleren en te herstellen) speciaal in het leven is geroepen voor ‘dit soort inprenting’. Paternalisme? De jonge moeder Ezzeroili beschrijft een scène waarin een moeder met een hoofddoek bij de poort van de voorschool staat.
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. An earlier list (2005) of Connectivist principles from Siemens also informs the pedagogy behind MOOCs: Learning and knowledge rest in diversity of opinions. Now that you’re a MOOCs expert, let’s examine where they could lead. 1) Most Likely: More Startups, More Schools Offer MOOCs If we continue along at the current rate of adoption and usage, it won’t be surprising to see a slew of startups jumping into the MOOCs space. 2) Sorta Likely: Many Schools Join edX & Similar Alliances, Large Companies Try To Make Money Off MOOCs 3) Less Likely: Schools Big & Small Offer MOOCs Exclusively, MOOCs Lose Momentum Due To Fractured Offerings 4) Not Likely: Companies Run All MOOCs, Schools Pay Them To Do So
Don't Help Your Kids With Their Homework - Dana Goldstein And other insights from a ground- breaking study of how parents impact children’s academic achievement One of the central tenets of raising kids in America is that parents should be actively involved in their children’s education: meeting with teachers, volunteering at school, helping with homework, and doing a hundred other things that few working parents have time for. These obligations are so baked into American values that few parents stop to ask whether they’re worth the effort. Until this January, few researchers did, either. What they found surprised them. Do you review your daughter’s homework every night? Similarly, students whose parents frequently meet with teachers and principals don’t seem to improve faster than academically comparable peers whose parents are less present at school. One of the reasons parental involvement in schools has become dogma is that the government actively incentivizes it.
Coursera Jumps the Shark Remember when Coursera – the world’s largest purveyor of Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – was going to disrupt higher education, and put hundreds if not thousands of public institutions out of business ? I know it’s hard to cast your mind back all of eighteen months, but try. Actually don’t. We’ve been heading this way for awhile. Coursera has simply never had a coherent plan to generate revenue. So now, with no money coming in, and no new round of venture financing announced since last year (attention education journalists: go interview some Coursera investors – they’re key to this story), it announced this week that it would be working with partners like the University of West Virginia and the University of New Mexico – places which Coursera swore in writing to its AAU/U-15/Russell Group partners that it would never allow to offer MOOCS, because it would taint the brand. And so the revolution ends with a whimper, not with a roar.
Auw! | Karin Blogt René Kneyber steekt fors van wal op zijn weblog over het feit dat de naam Onderwijshelden een geuzennaam is en oneigenlijk gebruikt wordt. In het boek Onderwijshelden zijn volgens zeggen bijna geen “mensen met de voeten in de klei staan” aan het woord gelaten. Dat er vervolgens toch niet de minste mensen uit het “onderwijskringetje”op Twitter riepen maar ik sta er wel in, is even niet van belang, zij wisten blijkbaar zelf niet wie de andere geportretteerden waren. Wat mij betreft zijn ALLE mensen die in het onderwijs werkzaam zijn helden! Van conciërges tot leerlingen/studenten tot besturen, maar dat terzijde. Ik ben het dus met hem eens dat de titel onderwijshelden in deze geen gelukkige titel is. Wat mij echter verbaast is dat er niet onderzocht is welke organisatie er achter het boek zit en zij blijkbaar niet van belang zijn in deze discussie. Het ontstaan van het boek Onderwijshelden Het boek “onderwijshelden” heb ik niet in mijn bezit omdat het al uitverkocht is. Ik vond onder andere:
What If We Flipped Online Learning? If you’re an online student, taking an online course (perhaps at Modern Lessons or Khan Academy or Coursera or, well, the list goes on…), or simply looking into putting your lectures online, there’s something you should know. People are already considering what flipped online learning might look like. It’s a thought that’s being passed around some social media circles that I follow and illustrated in the below infographic. In short, flipped online learning would involve a larger focus on the student producing the learning materials and having an online instructor be more of a ‘guide on the side’ as it were. Rather than watching videos and taking a quiz, you’d have a robust discussion, have students create projects to share with classmates, and generate more discussion out of that. Essentially, it could be a never-ending class filled with a seemingly infinite number of lessons. Source: An Ethical Island
First Arab platform for MOOCs launched In an effort to deliver world-class education to millions of Arab-speaking students and academic communities around the globe, a not-for-profit Arab platform for MOOCs – called Edraak – has been launched. Arabic is one of the top six languages of the United Nations and is the mother tongue to more than 350 million people in 22 Arab countries including eight in Africa, six in the Arabian Gulf and eight in Asia. Arabic is the seventh most used language on the internet after English, Chinese, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese and German. Edraak To serve the large Arab speaking community, Edraak was launched on 19 May as a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs. It is an initiative of the Queen Rania Foundation for Education and Development and is powered by the American-based Open edX platform, a non-profit enterprise involving dozens of universities worldwide. Expert's view