Una docena de MOOC o cursos online gratuitos para completar tu formación Todo parace indicar que 2013 será el año del despegue definitivo dentro del ámbito de la formación online, de los MOOC (cursos online abiertos masivos). Ya os hablé de estos cursos basados en contenidos online, principalmente de educación superior, que se imparten en varias plataformas gratuitas de e-learning y formación online, como Coursera. Desde que comenzase este fenómeno con el primer curso MOOC de la Universidad de Stanford sobre inteligencia artificial, en el que se matricularon 160.000 alumnos de 190 países, estos cursos se han convertido en un recurso muy interesante para completar nuestra formación. A nivel tecnológico, las plataformas que albergan estos MOOC siguen desarrollándose y aún no han alcanzado la madurez. A continuación os dejo con unos cuántos MOOC gratuitos sobre materias innovadoras, impartidos por algunas de las mejores universidades españolas y norteamericanas, utilizando plataformas de formación online. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.
Professor's TEDx Talk Shares Why We Need Teachers I was messaged on Twitter the other day by Professor Gustavo Reis . In his TEDx talk, he discusses the importance of education and, more importantly, the need for engaged students. Below are a few takeaways from the video that I found particularly interesting. NOTE: the video is subtitled. How Students Pay Attention In Class One of the stand out points Prof. It’s during that time the student understand that either the best part (save the best for last and all that) of the class is coming or that the class is simply almost over. After 1 Minute, Half of all Video Viewers Leave Prof. 2% of High School Students Want To Be Teachers At about 10 minutes into the video, Prof. About Prof. Gustavo Reis has always been considered a model student.
Coursera forced to call off a MOOC amid complaints about the course Maybe it was inevitable that one of the new massive open online courses would crash. After all, MOOCs are being launched with considerable speed, not to mention hype. But MOOC advocates might have preferred the collapse of a course other than the one that was suspended this weekend, one week into instruction: "Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application." Technology and design problems are largely to blame for the course's problems. And many students are angry that a course about online education -- let alone one offered by the Georgia Institute of Technology -- wouldn't have figured out the tech issues in advance, or been able to respond quickly once they became evident. Many of the problems related to the course's use of Google Docs to sign up for group discussions. Among the comments on blogs and Twitter: "Wowzers, 40,000 students signed up for considering google spreadsheets limit of 50 simultaneous editors ... not a good choice!"
TEDx France le portail officiel de tous les TEDx français Il est le fruit de la volonté de TED de développer localement la diffusion de TED et des TEDx. Comme les TEDx, il est à la fois indépendant et sous licence TED. Ce portail est le lieu qui rassemble et relaie l’information de tous les TEDx francophones, point de rencontre de et avec la communauté. Chaque TEDx reste indépendant, avec son identité et ses qualités propres. Le contenu produit est hétérogène par essence, tous les TEDx n’ayant pas les mêmes tailles. TEDxParis a ouvert la voie des conférences TEDx en France en 2009. Désormais, l'ensemble de ces événements sont référencés et annoncés sur le portail TEDxFrance.fr afin de développer les coopérations entre organisateurs et permettre aux participants et à la communauté TEDx française de pleinement profiter des initiatives TEDx sur le territoire. Le portail TEDxFrance.fr est lancé en partenariat avec GDF Suez.
A Quick Guide To The History Of MOOCs This Is How Students Use School Websites 8.45K Views 0 Likes It's important to have a proper appearance online. So why are there so many unhelpful school websites out there? This infographic shares what students want. Why TED Talks Have Become So Popular 5.67K Views 0 Likes TED talks are useful and free ways to bring high-level thinking and through-provoking ideas into the classroom and your home.
savoir ou savoir-faire? Stanford, Harvard Scholars Dissect Big Data GOOD DATA, BAD DATA: After blended learning, Big Data, and MOOCs, another edtech term is gaining steam in 2013: learning analytics. The phrase (which refers to finding meaningful data patterns that inform effective learning) is presumably where the Big Data movement in education is placing all bets. The only problem is mining data for meaningful patterns is a bit difficult when there's no strong definition of effective learning. Just ask Stanford GSE Professor Roy Pea. In this recent keynote address delivered at the Educause Learning Initiative, Pea cautions that learning sciences are "largely missing" from MOOCs and expose "a great chasm" in their design. Across the country at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Reynol Junco is equally unforgiving. His call for more learning sciences is a bit more nuanced than Pea's. Still any type of data can be difficult to handle in the context of school environments.
The best one to one device is a good teacher! Synthesising MOOC completion rates | MoocMoocher Via a combination of thinking about ‘what makes a successful MOOC?’, and looking for a topic for my final project on the Infographics MOOC, I decided to try to pull together the various statistics floating around online about MOOC completion rates. I’m trying to see if any differences emerge on the basis of platform or the assessment methods used. My draft graph synthesising everything I’ve found so far can be found here: Clicking on any of the data points will pull up a bubble with more information about that course, and a link back to the data source. (note: the interactive version of the chart uses javascript. This is off to quite an interesting start, but I need help sourcing more data and categorising courses according to their assessments. Courses which I have completion rates for, but need more information about how they were assessed, include: 3.091x Introduction to solid state chemistry at EdX, which ended approximately 2013-01 – Used MCQs