Running ‘aMOOC’? Developing and teaching ‘E-learning and Digital Cultures’. by Jeremy Knox on Prezi. Interview: Hamish MacLeod (University of Edinburgh) Re-Imagining Schools: What we’re Learning from Online Education | Crowd Media: A Web Design and Social Media Marketing Agency based in Guernsey. Innovative leaps in technology are constantly fed to us; as we sit comfortably with the latest efficiency that makes our lives easier, another emerges and once again completely changes our mindset. Cleverly placed in our gaze, these evolving ventures are tastefully squeezed into our daily lives, altering our course we jump aboard the digital revolution train as it steams forward, leaving those that linger to fade in the distance.
Over the last decade online education has been a hot topic amongst innovators, and those whispers have gotten louder as the number of elite universities experimenting with online delivery methods rapidly grows. Free courses worldwide often experience 6 figure attendance numbers via their virtual ‘classrooms’. The game changer in this developing world of digital resources was that I had a choice, and every step I took could be purposefully applied to my working life or interests. At last, I was in control. So why is this model so popular? Learning Creative Learning Week 5: Open Learning - The Good and Bad. Getting help when you are stuck is a crucial element of learning. Questions & answers represent a micro teach & learn exchange. And online Q&A communities provide new ways of reaching much larger communities of potential co-learners and mentors. Let's try how it works: * Join a Stack Exchange site that picks your interest I joined Stack Exchange, but really struggled with this site.
For those who want to go deeper, we thought it might be fun to connect people who offer to teach something, with others who want to learn it. I participated in a few teaching classes offered by people. How to Build A Strong Online Classroom Community in a MOOC (A Beginning) #edcmooc | Design for Learning. Tag: #edcmooc MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have recently exploded on the Internet.
Currently participating in the “Elearning & Digital Cultures” Coursera MOOC has been both an exciting and enriching experience so far. Many of my classmates have noted that it’s difficult to connect or even find what you need. I see that. If I haven’t had experienced both participating in and designing smaller online courses, I think I might have run screaming from this class. To some extent, online learners do have to take a bit of responsibility in learning how to use the tools, discovering the rules of etiquette and how to use the content creation options (Storify, Twitter, Facebook, Google +, Prezi, Storyline, etc.).
Part of the fun of engaging in an online course is taking a few risks. I have a few suggestions from my initial experience in this MOOC, and as I continue to take this course over the next few weeks I’m sure I will have more: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. How about you? Like this: Do teaching models in higher education need reinventing? – live chat | Higher Education Network | Guardian Professional. Michael Barber, chief education adviser of the world's largest education firm, Pearson, has been reported saying middle-ranking UK universities could face extinction within the next 10 years if they don't find a way to "mark themselves out of the crowd". He said the traditional lecture model is outdated and remarked it was pointless for 100 universities to develop the same courses when "the best professors are making their course available for free".
If it's not just universities that face extinction, but university lectures too, is it time to rethink the way academics teach in universities? How do lecturers now see their role in higher education? And what do they think is the teaching model of the future? We've already seen a major shift in the landscape with the creation of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) both overseas – Coursera, Udacity and edX – and in the UK – FutureLearn – providing thousands of free online courses for anyone, anywhere, with an internet connection. Panel. How MOOCs Could Meet the Challenge of Providing a Global Education.
As online education platforms like Coursera, edX, and Udacity burst onto the scene over the past year, backers have talked up their potential to democratize higher education in the countries that have had the least access (see “The Most Important Education Technology in 200 Years”). These ambitions are now moving closer to reality, as more people begin to experiment with their setup, although significant challenges remain. Students in countries like India and Brazil have been signing up in droves for these massive open online courses, or MOOCs, offered for free from top-tier universities, such as Stanford, MIT, and Harvard. One of the major challenges for MOOCs—which so far mostly come from U.S. universities—is to tailor the content of courses to a diverse worldwide audience with any number of combinations of language, educational, motivational, and cultural backgrounds.
“What we have today is a very nice first step,” says Anoop Gupta, a distinguished research scientist with Microsoft. Taking a look at MOOCs. Letters: Limits of moocs. The Real Winners of the Coming Revolution in Higher Education. Online Learning: a Manifesto | Online Learning. 50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About. Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers.
Here, we’ve compiled a list of some of the tech tools, including some that are becoming increasingly popular and widely used, that should be part of any teacher’s tech tool arsenal this year, whether for their own personal use or as educational aids in the classroom. Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Learning Lesson Planning and Tools Useful Tools. EdTech Trends and Predictions 2013. The edtech bubble is growing and is expected to grow even more in the year 2013. The following predictions have been made by the specialists in the edtech space: SMS Marketing Social Media MOOCs EdTech Events Predictions on the increase of SMS marketing to connect with students, as more than half of the number of students own a smartphone.
The power of SMS is that over 90% of students use text messages in their phones and this can be utilized to remind them about various tasks and events important for them. Social Media can be used for online presence of any educational institution and also to let them connect with their alumni and build relations. MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are likely to grow even more. Edtech Events and Conferences are seen to grow virally in different parts of the world. Group work advice for MOOC providers. The most valuable aspect of MOOCs is that the large number of learners enables the formation of sub-networks based on interested, geography, language, or some other attribute that draws individuals together. With 20 students in a class, limited options exist for forming sub-networks. When you have 5,000 students, new configurations are possible.
The “new pedagogical models” (A Silicon Valley term meaning: we didn’t read the literature and still don’t realize that these findings are two, three, or more decades old) being discovered by MOOC providers supports what most academics and experienced teachers know about learning: it’s a social, active, and participatory process. The current MOOC providers have adopted a regressive pedagogy: small scale learning chunks reminiscent of the the heady days of cognitivism and military training. Ah, the 1960′s. What a great time to be a learner. Let’s say I take a course on Coursera. The 6 Biggest Challenges Of Using Education Technology.
In an unplanned series of sorts, we’re showcasing a couple of posts about the 2013 NMC/EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Horizon Report for Higher Education . We’ve already talked about the key trends in the report , but it also addressed another important topic when it comes to classroom technology – the challenges involved with implementing new technologies. The Horizon Report identified six broad challenges to implementation which span the widest range of users – while recognizing that there are many significant local barriers that present their own challenges as well. They’ve taken some of the obvious issues such as financial limitations and physical limitations (getting wifi through the thick bunker-like walls of some 1940′s buildings, for example) and looked more specifically at the nature of higher education and how that presents challenges to implementing new technology. Teachers needs to be learning how to use the technology themselves, too.
Do you teach at the higher ed level? What is a MOOC? What are the different types of MOOC? xMOOCs and cMOOCs | Reflections. The acronym “MOOC” has been in vogue recently, with lots of discussion about organisations like udacity, coursera and edX. The acronym stands for “Massive Open Online Course.” These organisations provide one interpretation of the MOOC model. They focus on concise, targeted video content – with short videos rather than full-length lectures to wade through – and use automated testing to check students’ understanding as they work through the content. These MOOCS have been dubbed “xMOOCs”. Whilst they include discussion forums, and allow people to bounce ideas around and discuss learning together, the centre of the course is the instructor-guided lesson.
I’ve taken and completed a couple of xMOOCS so far. I’ve found the video lectures to be an improvement on the traditional lecture format. But, of course, the one-on-one interaction and easy back-and-forth questioning that can happen at the end of a formal lecture cannot take place in an xMOOC. Like this: Like Loading... A break with tradition. What are the value of MOOCs? Are they an opportunity or a threat, asks Carolyn Lewis Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have been around for a while, educating many people for a lot less money than more traditional methods. They provide great opportunities for life-long learning, particularly for those who face barriers to education.
They generally do not lead to a formal qualification, although some institutions do offer credit by exam. But with many courses offering only automated or peer grading, the real objective is to get people to learn, something that must be applauded. Enrolment is completely open so it’s quick and easy to get started. Support comes mainly from a student’s peers, with tutors and or mentors online to answer questions. Are MOOCs successful? How can FE and HE institutions afford to design and develop MOOCs and then share them free?” What is their future in the UK? We must not lose sight of the benefits and value of what we already do well.
Call for Submissions - MOOCs and Beyond: eLearning Papers Issue 33. A Tale of Two MOOCs @ Coursera: Divided by Pedagogy. The Web as a classroom is transforming how people learn, is driving the need for new pedagogy; two recently launched courses at Coursera highlight what happens when pedagogical methods fail to adapt. Divided pedagogy I wrote recently about the Fundamentals of Online: Education [FOE] the Coursera course that was suspended after its first week and is now in MOOC hibernation mode. Over thirty thousands students signed up for the course hoping to learn how to develop an online course. It was a technical malfunction when students were directed to sign-up for groups through a Google Doc that shuttered the course, along with hundreds of student complaints about lack of clear instructions, and poor lecture quality. The course was suspended on February 2, and there has been no word yet as to when it will resume :(. The Tale of the Two What made e-Learning and Digital Cultures successful and FOE not?
Our current higher education system is grounded in behaviorist and cognitive theories. References. Glogster - Online Multi-media Posters, My Voki - Create T... NETS S - National Educational Technology Standards for St... NETS S - National Educational Technology Standards for Students.www.iste.org An essential question is the starting point, the point of inquiry in which students are engaged in real world explorations that are meaningful and have purpose.Responses to Essential Questions cannot be found, they must be developed from research, experimentation, investigation, and practical experience.
Answers to these types of questions require students to construct knowledge and sufficient time must be devoted to providing students with opportunities to develop those answers.daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com Essential questions require students to connect the learning to the world they live in today. They require students to make an assessment of current information, through research and experimentation and combine it experiences to form an argument or solution.blog.iseesystems.com Additional information can be found in the NETS S Standards for Creativity and Innovation: a. TAGS Searchable Twitter Archive.
EDCMOOC. Present tense “We want the community to understand why it’s important to study the brain and to study the brilliance of other animals … so that they can tell us how their brains do it, so that we can then make hypotheses about how the human brain does it.” Sarah Woolley, researcher Utopian Potential The Great Backyard Bird Count is a citizen science project that relies on citizens to record and report sighting of birds in their area. This year the bird count, held from February 15 - 18, 2013, went global with 103 counties participating. 26,230,797 individual birds were counted during the event and 3181 species spotted. An intersection of technology, science and everyday people, the #GBBC relies on the Internet to bring it all together. The #GBBC is an example of the educational potential of Internet-based tools and the potential for citizens to provide meaningful contributions to science.
Will Moocs fail to give students help they need? 50+Ways - home. EDCMOOC by Heikki Hallantie. Humanizing Online Learning with VoiceThread. It’s really time to put the age old arguments about online classes being dull, cold, and alienating to bed and accept that these problems are only effects of the choices made by those who design, develop, and teach the course. If you are an online instructor who is aching to break out of the social limitations of the text-based discussion forum that still dominates online courses, despite the audio and visual rich social technologies that abound, read on. Take a few minutes to step inside one of my online classes and view this clip of an interaction between me and one of my former online Art Appreciation students from a class VoiceThread activity. The excerpt you see here shows a single slide (out of many) from an online activity. Students were required to comment after reading a chapter that introduced them to the concepts of “form and content.”
In this way, the activity is used as a formative assessment for them to begin to develop mastery of new concepts and skills. EDCMOOC - My Digital Artefact: The Human Revolution. Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching - Wired Campus. Subscription TLT Group. The use of music and animation in eLearning. Shoring the fragments of #edcmooc | Teaching 'E-learning and Digital Cultures' Connected learning: getting beyond technological determinism. Web Tools for Teachers by Type. Digital Artifact Tools | Gather with Purpose. Paul's E-Learning Resources.
Why Informal Learning is Crowding Out Formal Learning. Untitled. Elearn.background. Netcococo.png (952×442) An Ed-Tech Guide for Teachers and Technologists. Felicia M. Sullivan | "Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing." — Rollo May. A Teacher's Guide to Social Media | Los apuntes de Silvia. TEDx Warwick. 64 Sites for Digital Storytelling Tools and Information. 50+Ways - StoryTools. Poverty, technology, and the future of global education.
Educational Technology for the Classroom from Mimio. Responding to Online Students - How Do We Tell Them They've Made a Mistake?