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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples. Open Curriculum. And anymore, they end being the punchline of edtech jokes, somehow.

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Back to #EDEN

Learning with 'e's

MOOCs; and a whole host of other innovations have been birthed during this time. In 2007 I was awarded a Fellowship, and a decade later in 2017 I was given the honour of being named a senior fellow of EDEN. Almost a quarter of a century later, we can look back at the many, many changes of the intervening years.

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It’s the Dawning of a New Day in the Job Market. Here’s What That Means for Higher Ed

Edsurge

MOOC catalog site Class Central has reported a 900 percent spike in traffic , and course enrollment has surged at Coursera.

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Theories for the digital age: Self regulated learning

Learning with 'e's

Hase and Kenyon’s (2007) conceptualisation of self determined learning - or heutagogy - places the emphasis on non-linear, self-directed forms of learning, and embraces both formal and informal education contexts. 2007) Heutagogy: A Child of Complexity Theory, Complicity: An International Journal of Complexity and Education , 4 (1), 111–118.

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If we know better, we have to do better. #IMMOOC

The Principal of Change

But compare it to when the first iPhone came out and some people were saying it was one of the best inventions of that year (2007). September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! People are complaining that it is not forward thinking enough , and I get that. How quickly things change.

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Live Tuesday March 27th - Alec Couros Talks "Open Teaching"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The "Open Course" he has run since 2007 incorporates both formal and informal aspects of social learning within its very loose structure, and has been credited as being one of the inspirations of some prominent MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) offerings (although he describes the Open Course as a "Small Open Online Course").

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Yale Announces ‘Blended’ Online Master’s Degree

Wired Campus

In 2007 it became one of the first elite institutions to post lecture videos online at no charge. In 2013 it joined with Coursera and started building MOOCs. Yale has taken an active but measured interest in online education in the past decade.