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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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Announcing the Library 2.017 "Makerspaces" Mini-Conference and Call for Proposals.

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

WEBINAR PLATFORM : The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate , and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. (To Registration will give you access to the live event and to the event recordings. If you aren't able to enter that room, see Behind the Blackboard Support.) link] Kyungwon Koh, Ph.D.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs v1.1

Mistakengoal.com

Maybe we can do that by trying to list some of the big ideas and an accessible entry point or summary of each idea. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. Contemporary sources of information : I regularly keep up on technology ownership, access, and use in the U.S.

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Essential Reading for Technology in Student Affairs

Mistakengoal.com

Maybe we can do that by trying to list some of the big ideas and an accessible entry point or summary of each idea. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. Contemporary sources of information : I regularly keep up on technology ownership, access, and use in the U.S. Student Affairs'

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

Livingstone 2001). (13). An acronym for Massively Open Online Course, a digital course that allows asynchronous access to content. Learning can unfold in a variety of ways: people can use mobile devices to access educational resources, connect with others, or create content, both inside and outside classrooms. ” (11).

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Daphne Koller Bids Farewell to Coursera, Hello to Calico

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Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller has ridden the MOOC craze as the company’s CEO and later president. This field has been a passion of mine since 2001, when I first started working on it at Stanford.” million users in less than a year and leading some to proclaim 2012 “the year of the MOOC.” 17 blog post.