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11 août 2014

Hack Education Weekly News: $30 Million More for Edmodo

By Audrey Watters. MOOCs and UnMOOCs
Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller makes an appearance on the Slate Techno Sapiens podcast.
MOOCs and modularity
SAP is offering more MOOCs on its “openSAP” platform. “Open” LOL.
An academic paper on MOOCs has found they “rely heavily on objectivist-individual teaching approach.” The paper will cost you $35.95 to access. Because nope. Not open.
P2PU and College Unbound are offering a class on “Writing for Change” (designed to help you learn grant and op-ed writing skills). More...

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11 août 2014

What Would Thomas Jefferson Say About the Internet?

By Cathy Davidson. I wouldn't be a historian of the Internet had I not been trained as a historian of the book. Or I certainly would not have had the long historical perspective on this new tool and been able to see its possibilities, its dangers, and our responsibilities for teaching our students how to use it well. The alarmism and hysteria, though? That seemed all too familiar. When Nicholas Carr and others were sounding all the alarms about the evils that the Internet would cause--shallowness, distraction, loneliness, and the rest--it sounded to me pretty much like Thomas Jefferson's early assessment of the novel. Parallel to Carr's famous indictment of Google, Jefferson was sure novels made you stupid. More...

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11 août 2014

Update on 2U: First full quarterly earnings and insight into model

By Phil Hill. 2U, the online service provider that went public in the spring, just released its financial report for the first full quarter of operations as a public company. The company beat estimates on total revenue and also lost less money than expected. Overall, it was a strong performance (see WSJ for basic summary or actual quarterly report for more details). More...

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11 août 2014

Federal Reserve Board backs up e-Literate in criticism of Brookings report on student debt

By Phil Hill. I have been very critical of the Brookings Institution report on student debt, particularly in my post “To see how illogical the Brookings Institution report on student loans is, just read the executive summary”.

D’oh! It turns out that real borrowers with real tax brackets paying off off real loans are having real problems. The percentage at least 90 days delinquent has more than doubled in just the past decade. In fact, based on another Federal Reserve report, the problem is much bigger for the future, “44% of borrowers are not yet in repayment, and excluding those, the effective 90+ delinquency rate rises to more than 30%”.

More than 30% of borrowers who should be paying off their loans are at least 90 days delinquent? It seems someone didn’t tell them that their payment-to-income ratios (at least for their mythical average friends) are just fine and that they’re “no worse off”.

Well now the Federal Reserve Board themselves weighs in on the subject with a new survey, at least as described by an article in The Huffington Post. More...

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10 août 2014

Serendipitous, #informal learning through some ages

By Inge Ignatia de Waard. Informal learning has been an important self-constructing force throughout the ages. At present it gains interest with the increase of online learning options (eg. MOOCs in all forms and formats), and it also becomes more visible through the concept of learner-centered learning, personal learning environment... So I picked up a mail from years ago, and revisited it with some of which I learned now. For I wonder how much of informal learning is actually new, in the face of technology I mean.
Informal learning - a (very) quick serendipitous tour: Leonardo da Vinci is a great example of a human that was instructed as a painter, but through his ideal location (a city filled with artists and knowledge) and the need for travel (sometimes voluntary, sometimes political need), the exchange with other artists (peers) from other regions and the fact that he was able to talk with people from different trades molded him into a genius (cfr. a personal learning network, but possibly with less sustainable connections through travel realities). Da Vinci became interested in different fields which he than explored pushed by his own curiosity and sometimes political circumstances. Looking at his interests, it is clear the man absorbed whatever he found of interest. Chances are he would be a prolific Internet surfer and producer. Read more...

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10 août 2014

Im Verborgenen

Von Caterina Lobenstein und Marvin Oppong. An deutschen Unis fließen Milliarden. Doch woher, wohin und warum – das erfahren die Studenten kaum. Dagegen regt sich Widerstand. Die Kameras entdeckte er an seinem ersten Uni-Tag. Marvin Pollock stand am Eingang des Seminargebäudes, über der Tür hing eine schwarze Kugel, die Kugel filmte ihn. Drinnen, vor dem Fahrstuhl, hing eine weitere Kugel, eine Überwachungskamera. Mehr...

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10 août 2014

Was am Ende übrig bleibt

Von Marion Schmidt. Viel Aufwand, viel Marketing und wenig Nutzen. Das Deutschlandstipendium muss neu aufgestellt werden.
Kellnern muss sie jetzt nicht mehr. Jana Felde, Studentin an der Universität Bremen, bekommt seit einem Jahr ein Deutschlandstipendium. 300 Euro im Monat. "Ich bin sehr glücklich darüber", sagt die 22-Jährige, die Summe sei für sie eine große Entlastung. Mehr...

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10 août 2014

Russia seeks more Indian students, to promote its culture in India

By fwire. Russia is seeking to promote its education and culture in India and strengthen people-to-people ties ahead of President Vladimir Putin's expected visit here later this year.
India and Russia will sign an agreement on the mutual recognition of higher education diplomas, which would help increase the flow of Indian students to Russia, Fyodor Rozovsky, director of the Russian Centre of Science and Culture (RCSC) here, told IANS. Russia's largest cultural representation abroad is in India, with five RCSCs in New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, Kolkata and Trivandrum.

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10 août 2014

Education is missing a trick on industry, says OECD

Developing and emerging countries should more closely link up education and technology policies to produce the technical skills needed to boost their economies and “close the income gap with advanced countries”, according to a report by the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development).
The report, Perspectives on Global Development 2014 launched this month in Paris, France, highlights a mismatch between the skills that the economies of developing and emerging countries need and training being offered to people. More...

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10 août 2014

China: MoE issues guide for overseas study tours

By Katie Duncan. China’s Ministry of Education has released new guidelines for primary and secondary school overseas study tours after Chinese parents have voiced concerns that the safety of students is being overlooked. The trips have also gained a reputation of providing too much sightseeing and not enough studying the ministry has said. More...

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