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4 mai 2013

Why You Need a Ped.D

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By Brent E. Betit. Mention “teacher training” to the typical college professor and his eyebrow will raise like the wing of a raptor. Talons may follow. College professors are experts in various disciplines—political science, mathematics, the biology of anthropology, the history of technology, and other disciplines from arcane to pedestrian. Teaching ability is universally presumed to accompany expertise in a discipline. Call it pedagogy by osmosis. In my prior role as a college provost, I interviewed dozens of eager experts, newly-minted doctorates in tow, looking for a first gig as a college professor. Because the college that I helped found is best known as a world leader in serving students with learning differences, every single candidate advanced the same query when I finally stopped peppering questions to breathe: “How will I learn how to work with your students?”
Great question. A Landmark College (Vt.) classroom is like no other setting on the planet—a unique environment that is without question the most neurodiverse cognitive ecosystem anywhere in the university world. Read more...

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4 mai 2013

Can MOOCs Become Part of Best Practices in Online Learning?

By Yoram Neumann. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have captured the headlines in higher education in the past year. These new platforms were developed to enable both open access and large scale participation in online courses. Many top tier universities are joining the MOOCs bandwagon, afraid of missing an important piece of the Web-based phenomenon. It is our goal as educators to assess whether or not they can become a best practice in online learning. A MOOC course is typically structured as a pre-recorded lecture divided into segments. A weekly assignment is designed to assess a student’s ability to solve a well defined problem with a precise solution. The problem with this format is that no student support services are assigned to the course and the student gets very little, if any, feedback on their assignment. No faculty-student interactions are part of this scenario, which is crucial for the success of online education. In one instance, an MIT MOOC course included 155,000 registrations but only 7,157 successfully completed the course. Read more...

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4 mai 2013

MOOCs March On

By Tim Goral. Whether you think they are hype or the next step in the evolution of learning, there’s no question that MOOCs have taken the education world by storm. Platforms such as Coursera, edX, and UniversityNow offer free courses online to students anywhere, and are continuing to grow. Coursera now has more than 60 partners here and abroad, including École Polytechnique in France, the National University of Singapore, the Chinese University of Hong Kong and National Autonomous University of Mexico.
Meanwhile, edX, a venture cofounded by MIT and Harvard, also announced a number of new international partners, including the Australian National University, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland, McGill University in Montreal, and the University of Toronto. To date, edX has more than 700,000 individuals on its platform, who account for more than 900,000 course enrollments. Read more...

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4 mai 2013

Does Not Compute

By Zack Budryk. A new report out from the National Council of Teachers of English criticizes the practice of using machine scoring for writing assessments.
"Machine Scoring Fails the Test," NCTE’s new position statement, argues that computers lack the capacity to accurately grade essays and other writing assignments. The council draws its conclusions from various pieces of scholarship on machine scoring, cited in full in the statement. Read more...

By Joshua Kim. This post is a mash note to all my colleagues with ed tech jobs and liberal arts backgrounds.
Are you part of this club? Were you a history major, a sociology grad student? (Yes and yes for yours truly). Did you concentrate in English with a minor in Women's Studies? Linguistics or literature, philosophy or political science?
And have you found that your liberal arts undergraduate or graduate background has led you to ed tech? Perhaps a learning designer, application administrator, educational technologist, or support professional?
Yesterday it was lit theory, today it is learning theory. Once you discussed Jane Austen, today you are up to speed on educational iPad apps. From linguistics to the LMS, the Great Books to Google Apps.
The thing is - you are not alone. The liberal arts tribe of ed techies is growing. Why could this be so?
As in most things in life, the answer has to do with supply and demand. Read more...

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4 mai 2013

Expanding global landscape of MOOC platforms

By Kris Olds. In Brussels, yesterday, Androulla Vassiliou (European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth) announced that the "first pan-European" MOOC platform will be launched on 25 April 2013. As Commissioner Vassiliou put it: This is an exciting development and I hope it will open up education to tens of thousands of students and trigger our schools and universities to adopt more innovative and flexible teaching methods. The MOOCs movement has already proved popular, especially in the US, but this pan-European launch takes the scheme to a new level. It reflects European values such as equity, quality and diversity and the partners involved are a guarantee for high-quality learning. We see this as a key part of the Opening up Education strategy which the Commission will launch this summer. Read more...

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