educational technology (#edtech) #elearning
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,…
Distance education used to be about the distance, and now it’s really about the education.” Jean Runyon, dean of learning advancement and the Virtual Campus at Anne Arundel Community College in Maryland Why Higher Education is Looking for E-Learning Leaders By Tanya Roscorla (Twitter: reportertanya) Universities and community colleges are looking to hire staff who can help institutions…
Daphne Koller: What We’re Learning From Online Education Daphne Koller is the ‘birth mother’ of Coursera, and along with Stanford colleague Andrew Ng are the two behind the rise of MOOC’s and disruptive elearning in higher education. This is a FANTASTIC video which provides insight into the impetus for Coursera and an inside view of…
A fantastic draft document by educators brought together by the Audacity’s Sebastian Thrun, proposes “inalienable rights” for students to demand from institutions and companies offering #onlinelearning courses. Really well done! DOWNLOAD THE DOCUMENT (PDF) A Bill of Rights and Principles for Learning in the Digital Age Preamble Work on this Bill of Rights & Principles…
Online Higher Education Revolution (Infographic) The higher education Online Learning Revolution is shattering the barriers of access to higher education and learning. Source: FindOnlineEducation.com
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