Debundling of education. A Failure of Interaction: A Report from the UCLA Forum on High-Tech Higher Education. On January 8th, I participated in the forum on online education for California at UCLA.
First a few ironies: the faculty presenters had to listen to four hours of non-interactive presentations before they could speak and ask questions. In other words, as the “providers” were lecturing us about how online technology allows for true interactive education to occur, they did not leave space for any interaction. Moreover, the high-tech promoters kept on having a hard time getting their PowerPoint slides to work as they criticized traditional institutions for not turning to new technologies to make education “Faster, Cheaper, and Better.” A final irony was that throughout the lectures, I noticed most of the audience, including myself, constantly checking their iPhones. Bartending Bachelors? It’s the Wrong Question. Peter Orszag here considers the interesting and recent phenomenon of taxi drivers with college degrees.
Tyler Cowen adds comment here. Let’s consider a few stylized facts about the emerging labor market: There will be stark inequality.College grads tend to be underemployed or unemployed unlike ever before.Without good luck, you can expect to graduate with not insignificant debt.There’s something about this “knowledge economy” thing. It’s probably good if you can take a derivative functions, and such. There are two ways to have this conversation. I think Orszag, and too many others, speak in a hybrid construct; a mongrel between the old education and new labor market. Here’s the money word: bundling. Relative economies of scale and scope.Opportunity cost of bundling is low.Very high barriers to entry.There’s value from the bundling itself.And, most importantly, heterogenous demand. Debundling of education. The OpenCourseWareConsortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions.
Online and Adult Education. The participation of big investors in online education has made it a new hotspot for investment in the education industry.
Students in remote and underdeveloped areas are the biggest beneficiaries of online education, but online universities offer students who have failed university entrance examinations and working people the opportunity of lifelong education and training. The Ministry of Education has approved 68 ordinary schools of higher learning and the Central Radio and TV University to pilot modern distance education. The OpenCourseWareConsortium is a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions. New technology to foil online test cheaters. By Erika Fry, reporter FORTUNE -- Now that American education has entered the era of the MOOC -- the Massive Open Online Course -- the opportunity for cheating appears greater than ever.
The omniscient Google search engine is never more than a few keystrokes away for the computer-bound. So how can a proctor possibly manage the far-flung multitudes, let alone smoke out cheaters taking tests across the Internet? Using technology, of course. University Leaders From Asia and the Pacific Consider Challenges of Globalization - Global. By Karin Fischer Hong Kong As globalization and technology blur national borders, universities must work even harder to demonstrate their distinctiveness and value, said the leaders of top universities in the Asia-Pacific region.
Www.ascilite.org.au/ajet/ajet27/hong.pdf. UK enters global online university race. 18 September 2013Last updated at 11:58 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Online student Saurabh Kumar: "The best thing is flexibility" The UK's biggest online university project has been launched, with more than 20 universities offering free courses.
Students will be able to follow courses on mobile phones as well as computers. The UK's project, called FutureLearn, sees UK universities entering the global market in so-called Moocs - massive open online courses. It could "revolutionise conventional models of formal education", says universities minister David Willetts. Mr Willetts, speaking at the British Library, said that the expansion of access to higher education was no longer necessarily about "bricks and mortar". He said that the FutureLearn partnership would help to serve the unmet demand for university courses, particularly overseas. The British Library, British Museum and British Council will make material available to students. 'Social architecture' Global race. 30 ways technology will change education between now and 2030. While doing some reading to prepare for a workshop with a group of head teachers last week, I came across this very well researched and presented future timeline of potential educational changes we can expect technology to bring in the next two decades.
I don’t agree with every point, but I definitely buy into the general tone and direction of the piece. You can read the original at the Teach Thought website here, or an extended extract below. Note, follow all the awesome links author Terry Heick has taken the time to include. This is a GREAT article and resource! Google Joins Top Universities in Quest to Fulfill Potential of Online Education. With online education, you don’t have to go to MIT to learn from one of MIT’s top professors.
You don’t have to spend six figures or four years to get knowledge applicable to the career of your choosing. Education can continue all your life, if you like. The idea is full of potential. But today, it’s still an experiment, and as anyone who’s taken a course will tell you, the experience is far from perfect. One challenge is getting people to fully commit to classes. 90% of enrolled students never finish.
To tackle problem two, Google is joining forces with edX, a collaboration of 29 top universities offering 72 online courses, to build an open source online education platform. The new platform will be rolled out on a site called MOOC.org in early 2014, and anyone interested in creating their own course can get instructions and tools developed by Open edX. University of California to open its research vaults, for free. Khan Academy. FutureGov - Transforming Government.
On-line Education. For current political commentary, see the daily political notes.
RMS' Bio | The GNU Project -- Richard Stallman September 2012 French Translation Prominent universities are using a nonfree license for their digital educational works. All Courses. Tag Archive for "massive open online courses" - Asia-Pacific Global Research. 'Online tests to replace paper exams within a decade' 20 September 2013Last updated at 08:07 ET By Judith Burns BBC News education reporter Technology will permeate schools says a private schools' leader but will it bring pen-free exams?
