OPEN Courseware (OCW) What is Open Courseware? Open courseware (OCW) programs are developed by universities. These universities have a department especially for develop OCW content. The content is just recordings, assignments, and readings from professors teaching a class on campus. In essence, Open Courseware (OCW) is repurposed content from traditional course. How Does It Work?…
Tag: Higher Education
Google Cloud based Apps Leading Higher Education (INFOGRAPHIC)
I Love Cloud Based Apps! It was an easy for me to move to cloud-based software services (apps) and put an end to mailing myself documents or carrying disks (I’m old! LOL) or thumb drives of large presentations. To have the convenience of having EVERYthing accessible from any Internet connected device was a dream come…
College Majors With the Highest and Lowest Employment Rates (INFOGRAPHIC)
The following infographic analyzes 173 college majors and shows the top and bottom 15 unemployment rates along with their rank in popularity. Perhaps more important than UNemployment is UNDERemployment–the notion that college graduates are employed in fields that don’t require a degree. The Accenture 2013 College Graduate Employment Survey [DOWNLOAD HERE] indicates 41% of college…
Flipped Classroom in College (INFOGRAPHIC)
Turning Education Upside down- Upside Down Learning in the Flipped Classroom:
New Game Changer for Higher Education: Minerva Project
I remember many years ago, the Arizona State University complained about students enrolling in their college but never going to class because they’d stay in their dorm rooms and take online courses. At the time, ASU had to reflect on whether this was something that was good or not. Fast forward several years later and…
MBOOC: Massively Boring Open Online Learning
A great article by Todd Tauber The dirty little secret of online learning: Students are bored and dropping out discusses the recent over-hyped and under-completed massive online courses. He offers a couple reasons for their failure and concludes that future IS bright with increased funding and development! Problems Design So why are all these students falling asleep,…