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27 février 2019

Free Course, Inexpensive Exam

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Free Course, Inexpensive Exam
Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed, February 4, 2013
More on the same story, with a few new players. "students can use free course content from providers like the Saylor Foundation and Education Portal to study for “challenge exams,” probably the fastest and most inexpensive way to earn credits. The examinations, like those offered by Excelsior College and the College Board’s College Level Examination Program (CLEP), are designed to test whether students grasp the concepts that would be taught in a conventional classroom version." What's important is that the tests are accepted as rigorous. More...

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27 février 2019

How NOT to Design a MOOC: The Disaster at Coursera and How to Fix it

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How NOT to Design a MOOC: The Disaster at Coursera and How to Fix it
Debbie Morrison, online learning insights, February 4, 2013
As I've told people in the past, what makes a MOOC a MOOC is that it i set up to use distributed resources, not centralized resources. More...

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27 février 2019

University of Phoenix Online Platform Receives Patent from United States Patent and Trademark Office

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. University of Phoenix Online Platform Receives Patent from United States Patent and Trademark Office
University of Phoenix, February 4, 2013
This one passed by last week and I just never got the chance to ake note (I spent most of last week quite under the weather). It's the sort of link I need extra energy to writem, because it's another one of those "the U.S. patent system is broken" links. More...

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27 février 2019

LearnDash

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. LearnDash
LearnDash, February 4, 2013
Audrey Watters notes this website in passing in her weekly summary: "LearnDash (is) a WordPress plugin that lets you create courses, set up quizzes, and track user info. It also takes advantage of the TinCan API (which I [Watters] wrote about here)." Note that even though WordPress is an open source application, this plug-in is not free. More...

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27 février 2019

Educon: Unraveling the Textbook

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Educon: Unraveling the Textbook
Tim Stahmer, assortedstuff, February 4, 2013

Tim Stahmer, reflecting on Educon (and linking to a few of the wonderful reflections written by others) jots down a few short notes about textbooks. "A replacement for the textbook should

be accessible on any device, anywhere
allow users to add comments
allow certain users (teachers, trusted students) to add and update materials
have a social media component to allow users to discuss the materials
have content controlled by educators, not publishers."

The fact that this would completely disrupt the textbook industry should tell us something. More...

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27 février 2019

Negating the learner in the learning process

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Negating the learner in the learning process
George Siemens, elearns, February 4, 2013
Nice. It looks like the bulk of CCK08 is now available again online. The newsletter archives have always been available, here - scroll down to 2008. Now the pages and Moodle forum are back on the University of Manitoba website, here. More...

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27 février 2019

21st Century Literacy: New Initiative Makes the Case that Learning to Code is for Everyone

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 21st Century Literacy: New Initiative Makes the Case that Learning to Code is for Everyone
Mimi Ko Cruz, Berkman Center for Internet, Society, Jul 11, 2014

You have to admire their capacity to win research grants. More...

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27 février 2019

Net Neutrality Offensive

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Net Neutrality Offensive
Carl Straumsheim, Inside Higher Ed, Jul 11, 2014

Academic groups are (once again) stressing the importance of net neutrality. More...

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27 février 2019

Report: Open Access to Journal Articles Gaining Acceptance from Researchers

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Report: Open Access to Journal Articles Gaining Acceptance from Researchers
Leila Meyer, Campus Technology, Jul 11, 2014
More evidence of the increasing acceptability of open access research. "The report, "Taylor & Francis Open Access Survey, June 2014," is the second annual survey of journal authors on their opinions toward open access publication. More...

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27 février 2019

Extended Artificial Memory. Toward an integral cognitive theory of memory and technology

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Extended Artificial Memory. Toward an integral cognitive theory of memory and technology
Lars Ludwig, Kluedo, Jul 11, 2014
Lars Ludwig wrote to tell me about work he has done on the possibility of extending memory with machines. More...

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