By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Congrats to Paul-Olivier Dehaye: MassiveTeaching
George Siemens, elearnspace, Jul 15, 2014
I just want to weigh in with a thought on the course created and then deleted mid-session by a professor on Coursera. I'll say it in a way George Siemens doesn't: what a jerk. More...
18 mars 2019
Congrats to Paul-Olivier Dehaye: MassiveTeaching
03 mars 2019
Thinking About 'Massification of Higher Education Revisited’
By Joshua Kim. Why we may be at peak U.S. college, but we are decidedly not at peak global higher education. More...
12 février 2019
trouvermonmaster.gouv.fr - Le portail national des masters
Quel master après ma licence ?
"trouvermonmaster.gouv.fr" regroupe l'intégralité des diplômes nationaux de master proposés par les établissements d'enseignement supérieur en France. Plus...
26 octobre 2018
Mass Customization of Education by an Institution of HE: What Can We Learn from Industry?
Mass Customization of Education by an Institution of HE: What Can We Learn from Industry?
Robert Schuwer, Rob Kusters, International Review of Research in Open, Distance Learning (IRRODL), May 5, 2014
So this seems like a good time to restate a distinction I've been using for some time now:
- personalized - a common product is adapted for use by an individual
- personal - a unique produced is created for and possibly by the individual
A similar distinction appears with similar terms. So, for example, a custom car is one that was built especially for you, while a customized car is a production-line car with features adjusted to your specification. More...
24 octobre 2017
“The fun they had” or about the quality of MOOC
“The fun they had” or about the quality of MOOC
Patrizia Ghislandi, Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society, 2016/08/31
I remember the Isaac Asimov story referenced in this article (16 page PDF). I credit my extensive reading of science fiction with a lot of the foresight I've been able to bring to our field, including with respect to MOOCs. More...
19 février 2017
Four Megatrends in International Higher Education: Massification
By . A few months ago I was asked to give a presentation about my thoughts on the “big trends” affecting international education. I thought it might be worth setting some of these thoughts to paper (so to speak), and so, every Friday for the next few weeks I’ll be looking one major trend in internationalization, and exploring its impact on Canadian PSE. More...
29 juin 2016
Massification does not necessarily bring equity
By Nicola Jenvey. The mass expansion of higher education has played a significant role in broadening the access to learning from previously only serving the elite, causing some commentators to moot it among the most important social transformations in the second half of the 20th century. Read more...
30 mai 2016
How to fund mass higher education
By David Palfreyman. This is admittedly an unashamedly Anglo-Saxon neoliberal perspective on the delivery of higher education globally – and is largely based on Reshaping the University: The rise of the regulated market in higher education, a 2014 book I wrote with Ted Tapper. Some may feel able to ignore all this unpleasant stuff, simply assuming it could never happen in their civilised country. Read more...
15 mai 2016
Massification Causes Stratification
By . Once upon a time, higher education was small. Really small. Only a very few people could enter it, and the value of a degree was enormous. Not just in terms of skills/knowledge acquired, or the credential, but also social status. If you’re a fan of Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels, just look at the leap in social status and life chances that Elena experiences when she makes it to the Scuola Normale in Pisa (which, by the way, I’ve not quite figured out – why didn’t her teachers route her to the Università degli Studi di Napoli?). More...
13 mai 2016
Top Down or Bottom Up?
By Liudvika Leisyte. In the last decades higher education has become massified and, in many countries, universal according to Trow’s typology. Access to higher education has improved and multiple studies confirm the benefits of mass higher education to knowledge economies. Read more...
