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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.

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New Teachers Won’t Save Us

The Thinking Stick

History teachers… as part of their program should be required to know how to use all the amazing layers found in Google Earth. Math teachers should know about things like PhotoMath and how you could leverage this in the classroom. Or how about just on an professional level. How to respond to an upset student over email.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. The book packaged the ideas he’d developed during his time in the Blair Administration and at McKinsey & Company on how to successfully manage policy reform efforts. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

Learning with 'e's

Terry: I think like any professional, distance educators need to know how to effectively use the tools of their trade. Second,to follow from Marshall McLuhan the Medium is the Pedagogy (first coined by Cousin (2005). What are your views on MOOCs? Steve: Terry, thank you very much. Reference Cousin, G. Learning from cyberspace.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ CSU signs deal to record, broadcast classroom lectures,” says the San Francisco Examiner. Star Pubs and Bars launch “free e-learning for all” about how to run a pub. Via Engadget : “ Lego Boost teaches kids how to bring blocks to life with code.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

But how do they compare to the old one and the ACT ?” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). From the World Bank’s ed-tech blog : “How students in Uruguayan schools are being taught English over the Internet by teachers in Argentina – and in the UK & the Philippines.”

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Online Learning Does Not Mean Sans Engagement

Fractus Learning

If they learn how to engage the online learner, then hiding behind the safety of the student-initiated email wouldn’t be necessary. Joseph Cavanaugh’s research has found that teaching a course online consumes more instructor time than teaching the identical course face-to-face (2005). – Cavanaugh, Joseph K.