Contest “The MOOC Production Fellowship”
Contest “The MOOC Production Fellowship”
For faculty who might be inspired by opportunities offered by MOOCs but do not have resources to try their ideas out: Essen and Berlin, Germany, 11 March 2013 – Stifterverband (www.stifterverband.info), one of Germany’s leading[…]
Private Capital in Education growing
• At South by Southwest Education Event, Tensions Divide Entrepreneurs and Educators J.Young reports from Austin, Tex: Who should lead innovation in education—teachers or entrepreneurs? That key question was in the air here at 2013[…]
New forms of digital divide
Bandwidh divide could bar some people from online learning The digital divide had been a hot topic during years. Developed countries and regions are now noticing the rise of another kind of divide: a “bandwidth[…]
Texting: language evolution or fingered speech?
Nowadays there is a common worry among parents and teachers related to the new uses of language by youngsters in texting services, and how hand-held devices such as smartphones or tablets are influencing the way[…]
Launching our MOOCs Observatory
Like many of our readers, we have been following the phenomenon of Massive Open Online Courses since 2008, when it was in its incipient phase and did not have this buzz and fame around its[…]
Over-60s are told: go back to university and retrain
The UK government suggested that 60+ old people should go to university to retrain because they will be expected to work for longer before retirement: the state pension age is to rise to 67 by[…]
A Call for Drastic Changes in Educating New Lawyers
The legal system has always been the least flexible pilar of our society´s institutions; the very nature of conservatism was supposed to secure order, stability and continuity. That’s why proposal made by the Task Force[…]
A Bill of Rights to protect students’ interests in the age of MOOCs
Last month, 12 of the most renowned educators and experts in online-education, met in Palo Alto, Ca. to discuss about the future of higher education in the digital age. They created a document with the[…]
Some new definitions of “m-learning”
Chris Dede of the Harvard Graduate School of Education explores some new definitions of “m-learning” in his paper presented at the mLearn 2012 conference in Helsinki, October 14 2012: …m-Learning = multimedia learning Multimedia for[…]
3rd Prize to Innovative Ideas for Apps in Mobile Environments
The UAM-Telefónica Chair is carrying out its 3d edition of the Prize to Innovation in Mobile Environments. This year, the focus will be on apps. There will be 3 prizes, the first of them of 10.000[…]