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13 décembre 2018

US Department of State Unveils Open Book Project

US Department of State Unveils Open Book Project
Cable Green, Creative Commons, January 29, 2013

The United States government yesterday announced "the Open Book Project (remarks, fact sheet, press notice), an initiative to expand access to free, high-quality educational materials in Arabic." While no doubt this initiative has a political purpose, it doesn't follow that it merits criticism on that basis. The proof will be in the content of the material, and whether it serves the more generic objective of advancing eduation for Arab-speaking people. More...

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13 décembre 2018

Why I’m Now Embedding ORCID Metadata in PDFs

Why I’m Now Embedding ORCID Metadata in PDFs
Brian Kelly, UK Web Focus, January 29, 2013

Brian Kelly suggests that PDF authors should encode metadata into the PDF file so Google will be able to retrieve it. In addition to including the title of the work, he suggests that authors include the ORCID author id (ORCID stands for 'Open Researcher and Contributor ID' - of course it goes without saying that now everyone who creates a PDF will be an 'open researcher or contributor'). More...

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13 décembre 2018

Imaginative Education

Imaginative Education
Den Groom, YouTube, January 29, 2013

Dean Groom shared the following message with TALO: "A video I've made (short) about a project I'm working on via http://www.ierg.net. Should start 2014 in public. Right now working on an 'app' for want of better term, which is about peer-feedback using game-like methods. The actual IE programme is already in play, I'm trying to create a technological-connection between students and teachers to provide a feedback loop anonymously. Think Suga Mitra meets 4 Square. Anyone into this sort of stuff?" Even if you don't have time to watch videos (I rarely have time, though Groom's 40-second video wasn't too much for me) do check out the Imaginative Education Research Group website s it contains much more than just a few videos. More...

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13 décembre 2018

Revolution Hits the Universities

Revolution Hits the Universities
Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, January 28, 2013

Thomas L. Friedman gushes about MOOCs. "I can see a day soon where you’ll create your own college degree by taking the best online courses from the best professors from around the world — some computing from Stanford, some entrepreneurship from Wharton, some ethics from Brandeis, some literature from Edinburgh — paying only the nominal fee for the certificates of completion. It will change teaching, learning and the pathway to employment." I think we need to understand that 'best' does not mean (as it currently seems to) 'best marketed'. More...

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13 décembre 2018

The Post-2015 Development Agenda: time to learn and connect

The Post-2015 Development Agenda: time to learn and connect
Alicia Mitchell, eLearning Africa News Portal, January 28, 2013
Though rates have varied a lot, access to education in Africa has been improving. But it has not proven to be a panacea. "The Overseas Development Institute (ODI) has found that over half of the global extremely poor live in a household where the head does, in fact, have some degree of education. This means that education in and of itself is not currently a guaranteed path out of poverty." Of course, bobody should have presented it as such; education is a necessary but not sufficient condition. More...

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13 décembre 2018

Making Off I Congreso y II Feria de Innovación Educativa ÁVACO 2012

Making Off I Congreso y II Feria de Innovación Educativa ÁVACO 2012
Monica Leguizamón, YouTube, January 28, 2013

Six minute video created while I was in Ibague, Colombia. I am responding in real-time to questions posed to me, so I'm not speaking as quickly as I might with prepared text. Still, it gives a good overview of my thoughts on e-learning and especially e-learning in Latin America. More...

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13 décembre 2018

Moving Towards a Culture of Learning #MOOCs

Moving Towards a Culture of Learning #MOOCs
Miguel Guhlin, Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org, January 28, 2013

Miguel Guhlin (citing Lisa M. Lane) divides MOOCs into three categories:

Network-based MOOCs - "the goal is not so much content and skills acquisition, but conversation, socially constructed knowledge, and exposure to the milieu of learning on the open web using distributed means."
Task-based MOOCs - "emphasize skills in the sense that they ask the learner to complete certain types of work."
Content-based MOOCs - "the ones with huge enrollments, commercial prospects, big university professors, automated testing, and exposure in the popular press..."

People haven't really been talking about the task-based courses, but these are probably the most interesting of the bunch, as the tasks can be automated, and the system can step you through a series of actvities. More...

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13 décembre 2018

MOOC-Covered Towers? Online Education's Coming Impact on Traditional College

MOOC-Covered Towers? Online Education's Coming Impact on Traditional College
Scott D. Miller, Huffington Post, January 28, 2013

I tend not to link to Huffington Post articles because the pages have so many widgets they're unpleasant to read. But I wanted to like to this item, the upshot of which is "The challenge is to figure out how to embrace MOOCs and other technological innovations so that they best complement, not replace, that primary and original learning experience." Fair enough, but as Lydia Cline points our in an article, Udacity recently sold a MOOC to San Jose State University, and she suggests (in this LinkedIn thread) that "what I see happening is the flagship MOOC providers (the ones run by Ivy League profs) selling canned courses to all other schools, and the profs at those schools being turned into TAs for the courses. Or just fired and replaced with cheaper TAs." Of course, thus has ever been the lament of traditional faculty regarding online learning. More...

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13 décembre 2018

The New Intelligence

The New Intelligence
Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed, January 25, 2013

Long article from Steve Kolowich on the subject of learning analytics. "What if a professor teaching algebra could look out at her students and, in the blink of an eye, see exactly what each student understands, and what they don’t?" he asks. More...

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13 décembre 2018

Can Virtual Classrooms Recreate a Traditional College Experience?

Can Virtual Classrooms Recreate a Traditional College Experience?
Kate Freeman, Mashable, January 25, 2013

My first thought on reading the headline of this Mashable article was, "why would they want to do that?" Personally, I think it has been pretty well established that online learning has captured the essentials of traditional education - access to learning materials, interaction, educational outcomes - without may of the distractions, such as commuting. More...

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