By Cathy Davidson. Yesterday registration closed for my ISIS 640 class, “History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education.” 13 students all had to apply to be accepted: undergrads, grads, PhD and MFA students, a computer scientist, an artist or two, humanists, information designers, and assessment experts, from Duke, UNC, and NC State. 5 were already in the graduate class that wrote, edited, and published Field Notes for 21st Century Literacies: A Guide to New Theories, Methods, and Practices for Open Peer Teaching and Learning, which is one of the key texts for the new course, the MOOC, and the #FutureEd movement. They are the core team with whom I’ll be strategizing our contribution to what we hope will be a world-wide movement to, first, change the scope and the voices in the conversation about higher education--and then, second, to actually begin to change higher education. We call this #FutureEd. More...
24 novembre 2013
How To Take On the MOOCs—And the Rest of Higher Ed Too
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