Criticisms of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
Criticisms of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)
Via | EdTechDev MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have become a recent trend in open online education. Some people could be tempted to start talking of them as a new hype. Instead of that, we[…]
IX International Seminar – 1st Conference Call
Provisional Banner The 2012 International Seminar of the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning will be focused on the much needed reforms of the education system. The previous, VIII Seminar gave evidence of many actual[…]
Evaluation of the OLPC Program in Perú (Una Laptop por niño)
Information via Inter-American Development Bank The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is conducting a multi-year randomized evaluation of the impact of the OLPC project in Peru – the first rigorous attempt to examine the impact of[…]
Quest for College Accountability Produces Demand for Yet More Student Data
Article by Paul Basken published in The Chronicle of Higer Education After three years of studying ideas for measuring institutional quality, an expert panel assembled by the National Research Council delivered a 192-page report on[…]
El mundo necesita ciencia, la ciencia necesita mujeres (Programa UNESCO-L’ORÉAL)
UNESCO-L’ORÉAL Programa internacional de becas “Por las mujeres en la ciencia” El programa UNESCO – L’ORÉAL “Por las mujeres en la ciencia” es una iniciativa conjunta que busca promover la presencia de la mujer en[…]
Harvard – MIT partnership ($60M to create a Platform for Free Online Courses)
After reading this news, we remembered a certain quote by George Siemens: “[…] Education seems to be at the threshold of a very dramatic change” Article by Nick DeSantis published in The Chronicle of[…]
Flipping Corporate Learning (By Jay Cross)
This article was published by Jay Cross in the Internet Time Blog under a CreativeCommons BY-NC-SA 2.5 License Flipping learning is big in education. It will be big in corporate learning. Let’s not blow it.[…]
SOPA, PIPA, y ahora CISPA: ¿la libertad de expresión en la diana?
Posiblemente a estas alturas estáis ya familiarizados con las palabras SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) y PIPA (Protect IP Act). Ambos son acrónimos que responden a proyectos de ley estadounidenses destinados, en un sentido[…]
A process that may fundamentally redefine the credentials that validate higher learning
Original article by Kevin carey in The Chronicle of Higher Education […] Mozilla, a nonprofit organization built around the ethos of the open Internet, created the popular Firefox Web browser, which anyone can download, free.[…]
“The Search for Meaning” By Doug (Borderland)
Original post By: Doug in Borderland Via: Stephen Downes’ Web The plain fact is that the planet does not need more “successful” people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers[…]