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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

Edsurge

People can now work through a series of lectures while they commute or complete coursework on a mobile phone between shifts. It’s worth reexamining how we’re recreating these educational walled gardens online—as we move from the heyday of MOOCs in 2012 to the gradual decline of open access courseware in 2017.

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50 Alternatives To Lecturing

TeachThought - Learn better.

Talking with students and expecting them to respond meaningfully isn’t lecture–that’s accountable talk, which itself is close to a Socratic dialogue or Paideia seminar. We were going to include several videos and frameworks, but that makes the post clumsy and slow-loading on smaller mobile devices. Mobile learning.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

There’s now a movement to teach humanities seminars online. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. Mobile : as humanity continues to migrate ever-increasing swathes of life into handhelds, educators slowly follow suit.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses. Or Is There?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

A must-read on Trump University from Ars Technica : “Trump University and the art of the get-rich seminar.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”)

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The new age of inequality and what it means for education: my January talk

Bryan Alexander

Face-to-face instruction was the privilege of the 1%, while the middle class made do with distance learning, and everyone else had versions of MOOCs. Piketty et al turn out to be wrong : perhaps class mobility starts returning to its old dynamism. When it came to technology, a tripartite division had opened up. Or… 2.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. ” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity.

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