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26 mai 2013

MOOCs and the Future of the University

By John V. Lombardi. The advent of Internet-enabled mass access to college level educational content offers a number of opportunities to both consumers and providers. Consumers can shop for any number of content items online from a wide array of providers, choosing products based on the subject, the prestige of the provider, and the subsequent value of participation. Providers will have access to large potential markets with low overhead expense and most importantly without an obligation to validate the preparation and capabilities of the consumers or guarantee a level of successful completion. This element of the MOOC process is of great significance, because the assessment of student preparation and the assumption of responsibility for student success represent major institutional costs, both financial and reputational. Read more...

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26 mai 2013

What a Difference a Decade Makes: Part II

By Margaret Andrews. Blogging with me this week is my friend and colleague, Marie Eiter. Marie has spent several decades in executive education, leading the effort at both MIT Sloan and Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, as well as leading executive development at Chase Manhattan. We’ve both spent a lot of time in and around management education and are avid watchers of – and participants in – the changes occurring in the industry. So we’ve had a lot to talk about lately. One topic of recent discussion: the Financial Times published its 15th annual ranking of the world’s leading providers of executive education programs last week and, once again, what a difference a decade makes. As is customary, there are two sets of rankings, one for customized programs that are tailored to the specific needs of a single corporation, and the other ranking is for open-enrollment programs tailored to the development needs of individual managers. Read more...

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26 mai 2013

Publishers triumph in court ruling on ‘copy shops’

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By Raghavendra Verma. An Indian court has thrown out an attempt by a student organisation to allow private campus-based photocopying shops to create bound, near-complete copies of course books, in a case that may have set a national precedent. On 25 April, the Delhi High Court rejected an appeal by the Association of Students for Equitable Access to Knowledge, or ASEAK, to overturn an August 2012 decision preventing a photocopy shop in the University of Delhi’s school of economics from undertaking this work. Specifically, it had been told not to make course packs including a ‘substantial portion’ of books published by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Taylor & Francis. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

Using iMovie and Keynote to Make a Web-Based Keynote

By Eric Stoller. Recently, I was asked if I would be willing to give a keynote for a professional development event at a university. However, instead of coming to campus and delivering a presentation, the organizers wanted a "virtual keynote." While I've done numerous in-person presentations, webinars, and even a weekly web-based show, I've never done a virtual keynote. Conceptually speaking, I figured that it wouldn't be too difficult. A 30 minute presentation with slides, video, and audio…how hard could it be? Lecture capture is done all of the time. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

The Growth of the Hybrid Meeting

By Joshua Kim. We are all trying to figure out the best way to include remote colleagues in our team meetings. A number of factors have come together to drive the use of online tools in meetings where some people are meeting face-to-face in one room, while other colleagues are participating in the meeting at a distance. There are many factors driving the growth of hybrid face-to-face/online meetings. Here are 3:
1. Shifting and More Flexible Work Arrangements:
A growth of people working part-time, or bundling together multiple positions. These .5 or .25 colleagues often need to join our team meetings while traveling or onsite at their other gigs. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

On MOOCs & Against Inevitability

By Josh Honn. Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows I routinely rage against LibraryJournal (LJ), a magazine I was auto-subscribed to a few years ago while working toward my MLIS and to which I have yet to figure out how to unsubscribe from. My interaction with LJ is usually limited to me flipping through it after dinner, reading a few choice, rage-worthy quotes from the various columns out loud to my wife, and ultimately flipping the magazine over my head and onto the ground in a ritual we’ve grown quite fond of despite its rage-ful origins. Yet, in recent discussions on Twitter and over email with David Golumbia and others, I’ve come to the realization that I need to engage my rage in greater depth, to do something, anything, to critically complicate the discourse, particularly in library and information science literature. The dominant discourse here, especially when it comes to technology and “openness,” is one not of critique but a blind embrace of utopianism fueled by an acquiescence to inevitability. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

The Preoccupation with China

By Liz Reisberg. China is much in the news these days—an article in The NY Times about China’s spectacular $250 billion investment in higher education; the announcement in Inside Higher Ed of $300 million for a Chinese Rhodes Scholarship at Tsinghua (covered also by The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Huffington Post, The Economist, Bloomberg, and more); an opinion piece in The Chronicle about the tensions between foreign-educated scholars and the home-grown variety; the seven words you cannot say in Chinese University classroom. Am I mistaken or is higher education in China covered more in the press than higher education in any other country outside of the US? Searching “China” on the Insider Higher Ed website brings up mentions in at least 60 articles and opinion pieces since January 1. That seems like a lot. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

Las humanidades digitales como disidencia cognitiva

Por Ernesto Priego. Es increíble pero fue hace ya un año que tuvo lugar el Primer Encuentro de Humanistas Digitales en la Biblioteca Vasconcelos de la Ciudad de México (17 y 18 de mayo de 2012). Participé remotamente a través de un póster/volante y un sitio titulado “HD/DC” que abrí para ofrecer contexto y referencias. Fue una manera de querer comunicar que en las humanidades digitales es también necesario interrogar la forma en que “practicamos la academia”, es decir, el no poder estar físicamente en un evento en un lugar geográfico en tiempo real no necesariamente significa que no podemos participar en él.
“Disidencia cognitiva” suena grandilocuente e ingenuo, lo sé, pero la intención era sugerir que las “HD” en mi opinión deberían significar no sólo nuevas formas de hacer las cosas sino también nuevas formas de pensarlas. Inspirado por el Día de las Humanidades Digitales y por la próxima escuela de verano de DH Postcolonial he ahora subido mi póster/volante en formato PPT (por lo tanto editable por quien lo baje, si es que acaso interesase) a figshare. Noticia completa...

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25 mai 2013

MOOC Skeptic Proposes an Anti-MOOC MOOC

Here's a course topic not currently offered by any of the providers of massive open online courses: "The Implications of Coursera’s For-Profit Business Model for Global Public Education." The course was proposed last week by Robert Meister, professor of political and social thought in the department of the history of consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz and president of the Council of UC Faculty Associations. He sent a letter with his idea to Daphne Koller, a computer science professor at Stanford University and co-founder of Coursera, and then published his letter on the blog of the American Association of University Professors. Read more...

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25 mai 2013

Coursera, edX Continue To Expand

Coursera and edX, the two major providers of massive open online courses, continue to partner with more institutions. On Tuesday, edX, a nonprofit started with money from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced it has 15 new partners, including a half dozen in Asia. Both edX and Coursera, a Silicon Valley-based company, have recently touted the global nature of their efforts. Read more...

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