By John Morgan. The real cost of a University of Oxford education is £16,000 a year and the fees system should be better related to such an amount.
A study suggests that in the coming decade, the UK will be one of the world's fastest growing destinations for foreign students, despite increasing competition from other nations.
Rising numbers of young people from countries such as India, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are likely to pick UK institutions to study for a degree, according to a report by the British Council's education intelligence service. More...
By Ankita Ramgopal. For those students looking for higher education opportunities overseas, Ireland is the hot new destination. The primary reason for the country's growing popularity is perhaps the fact that it is easier on the pocket when compared with favourites such as UK, New Zealand and Australia. Ireland has seen a 100 per cent growth in the number of Indian students in the September round of admissions this year as compared to last year, although the base has been very small, growing from an average of 1000 in 2012, as indicated by the Ambassador H.E., Feilim McLaughlin. The country is known as one of the largest education destinations for American students, and now it is hoping to forge a similar relationship with India. More...
Par Benjamin Keller. Apprendre la programmation informatique, la mécanique quantique et la mythologie grecque en suivant des cours du MIT ou des universités Stanford et Harvard? C’est désormais possible pour tout le monde grâce aux MOOCs, ou «Massive Open Online Courses». Ces cours en ligne ouverts et gratuits attirent des millions d’étudiants, suscitent des attentes énormes et provoquent un vaste questionnement sur les nouvelles formes de l’enseignement supérieur. Célébrés comme une révolution, ils devront surmonter plusieurs défis pour confirmer leur statut. Suite...
By Richard PÉREZ-PEÑA. American adults lag well behind their counterparts in most other developed countries in the mathematical and technical skills needed for a modern workplace, according to a study released Tuesday. The study, perhaps the most detailed of its kind, shows that the well-documented pattern of several other countries surging past the United States in students’ test scores and young people’s college graduation rates corresponds to a skills gap, extending far beyond school. Read more...
Crea e imparte
Wemooc pone a tu disposición una potente herramienta para la creación y edición de cursos en modalidad mooc con roles específicos para diferentes perfiles: creador de cursos, editor, profesor, validador.
Gracias a sus diferentes módulos escalables, wemooc ofrece: una herramienta para la creación de estructura de curso y carga de contenidos y módulos de seguimiento para que puedas conocer la evolución de los estudiantes y a partir de datos orientados a ayudarte en la identificación de mejoras posibles en los cursos para favorecer el aprendizaje social.
Aprende y comparte
Wemooc incorpora diferentes herramientas colaborativas como Foros, Q&A, Wiki, Blog, que podrán ser utilizadas en función del diseño de cada curso, para promover el aprendizaje social y colaborativo.
Se incluyen diferentes sistemas motivadores con una clara orientación a favorecer la reputación digital e identidad social, mediante niveles de Karma y Badges que permiten gamificar los logros adquiridos en la plataforma.
Website: http://www.wemooc.com/.
The latest free, open online course at the German Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) provides participants with an in-depth understanding of business process modeling. The course, starting October 28th on the interactive Internet educational platform openHPI.de, will be taught by Prof. Mathias Weske, who heads the HPI research group Business Process Technology. In the six-week online course, domain experts, business administration experts, IT professionals and students alike will learn that business processes can only be successfully implemented when there is a common understanding of the workflow process involved. Online registration for the course, which is taught in English, is already open at: http://openhpi.de/course/bpm2013. More...
Today the Learning by Giving Foundation announced it has awarded $130,000 to 40 nonprofit organizations nominated, assessed, and voted on by students in Giving With Purpose, the world's first massive open online course or MOOC on effective charitable giving.
"We are thrilled to recognize the work of these organizations," said Alex Buffett Rozek, Chairman of the Learning by Giving Foundation. "Thousands of students in all 50 states and 111 countries participated in the MOOC. Their commitment to becoming effective givers enabled us to identify outstanding nonprofit organizations in communities across the nation." More...
By Sheryl Grant. Why do so many schools use letter grades? Where did they come from? What do they tell us and fail to tell us about the learners? What is the relationship between letter grades, student learning, and assessment?
Those are a few of the questions Bernard Bull and others will be exploring in a 6-week MOOC on Learning Beyond Letter Grades that kicks off this week. With a syllabus that focuses on the benefits and limits of different kinds of assessment, it's no surprise that the course includes a badge system. With all the research and work I've done around badges, I haven't been a learner in a badged course, so I'm looking forward to the experience and chatting with others about it. Read more...
The concept of MOOCs - free, universally accessible knowledge - appeals to HEC Paris as a way of expanding its expertise and knowledge, and sharing them with a wider, global audience. Following the success of its iTunes U platform (which has totaled over 2 million downloads in just three years) HEC Paris is experimenting with another new model for education in a bid to improve teaching via technology. More...
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