Eliademy.com Where MOOCs Miss the Mark: The Student-Teacher Relationship The mistake about MOOCs (massive open online courses) is that they discount the central component of effective teaching -- the relationship forged between student and teacher. Sure, students around the world gain access to previously inaccessible and unimaginable content from some of the world's renowned universities and professors from MIT, Harvard and Stanford. These students can grow inspired by the possibility of absorbing information through online lectures and platforms, as 12-year-old Khadija Niazi of Pakistan explained recently at the World Economic Forum. The New York Times reported, "Ms. Niazi has been taking courses, free so far, from Udacity and Coursera, two of the earliest providers of this new form of instruction. Her latest enthusiasm is for astrobiology, because she is fascinated by UFOs and wants to become a physicist." This is nothing short of amazing and shows the flattening of the education world. Do you have any experience with MOOCs?
Let's Rock: Ohjelmoinnin peruskoulu-MOOCista "somekoulukerho" MOOC = massiivinen avoin online kurssi. Viimeisen vuoden kuumimpia juttuja opetuksen kehittämisessä Helsingin Yliopiston ohjelmoinnin MOOC = ensimmäisen kerran viime keväänä. Alkoi eilen toista kertaa (ja etuajassa! Se kertoo jotain tämän hankkeen hengestä) Kurssilla voi kuka tahansa suorittaa 5op+4op yliopistokurssin ohjelmoinnista ja vieläpä saada sen kautta opinto-oikeuden yliopistoon! Todella cool! Ja tämä MOOC siis käsittelee Java-ohjelmointia. Historiaa Itse teimme poikani kanssa viime keväänä MOOCia muutaman viikon. Mooc on käynnistynyt uudelleen. Nyt haluan lyödä yhteen HY:n huippuhankkeen sekä oman osaamisen ja tehtäväkuvan: Tehdään peruskoululaisia ja lukiolaisiakin hyödyttävä rakenne, jolla oppija saa vertaistukea ja ryhmähenkeä, ohjaustakin ikätasolle sopivalla tavalla. Pääjuttu on tietenkin se HY:n MOOC ja jos he tekevät tämän itse, niin en toki hypi varpaille. Kommentteja? Tulkaa mukaan kehittämään tätä!
In 2012, the biggest changes on the Web were in online education, social networks, and the increasing use of smartphones and tablets. Live and learn: Everybody went mobile in 2012 (or so it seemed), but the most groundbreaking movement on the Web may have been the rise of digital education. For all the attention lavished on the Web’s growth on mobile devices this year, one of the most interesting Internet trends is still best experienced on a desktop computer: online education. The rising cost of higher education (the average bachelor’s degree now costs more than $100,000), combined with increasing access to high-speed Internet service and a desire for more efficient and flexible learning methods, brought new prominence to websites offering free or low-priced courses in everything from programming to literature. Free online code-learning startup Codecademy’s effort to teach novices to code snagged more than 400,000 participants for its weekly lessons in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Another segment of the Web that experienced major changes in 2012 was social networking.
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Free education: Learning new lessons TOP-QUALITY teaching, stringent admissions criteria and impressive qualifications allow the world’s best universities to charge mega-fees: over $50,000 for a year of undergraduate study at Harvard. Less exalted providers have boomed too, with a similar model that sells seminars, lectures, exams and a “salad days” social life in a single bundle. Now online provision is transforming higher education, giving the best universities a chance to widen their catch, opening new opportunities for the agile, and threatening doom for the laggard and mediocre. The roots are decades old. In April two of Mr Thrun’s ex-colleagues, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, launched a rival, Coursera, with $16m in venture capital. Republic of Letters The trend stretches far beyond America. Individual academics have MOOCs too. One spur is economic and political pressure to improve productivity in higher education. MOOCs are more than good university lectures available online. Spires not wires
Heli connecting ideas Major players in online education market Major players in online education market Comparing Khan Academy, Coursera, Udacity, & edX missions, offerings September 4, 2012 With most new markets comes competition, as is the case with online education. Khan Academy is an educational nonprofit founded in September 2008 by Salman A. Khan conceived the idea after making a website to help tutor his niece in 2004, and two years later he would post the first public video. Most of the videos, which tend to be around 10–15 minutes long, are on YouTube, with the exception of the Computer Science section, which contains integrated coding. The instruction is oriented toward the casual learner as a supplement to traditional classroom learning. Udacity is an organization founded in 2011 by Stanford researchers David Stavens and Mike Sokolsky, and Google VP and former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun, with the goal of “democratizing” education. Udacity has a unique system of certifications.
5 Ways edX Could Change Education After the initial announcement of Harvard and MIT’s collaborative learning platform, edX, earlier this year, I speculated that it might have several things to teach the world about e-learning and education in general. The possible research contributions of edX to education that I proposed at the time were: students like learning with technology; gamification works; peer-enabled learning is effective; time should be a variable in learning not a constant; and that teaching innovation isn’t easy. Chronicle reporter Marc Parry recently visited the edX office on the MIT campus and uncovered the actual facts behind the developing research agenda at edX. Here is a look at what the researchers at MIT and Harvard intend to investigate and an evaluation of the evolving edX agenda. 1. Some rather significant flaws exist with this model. 2. No one anticipated that edX content would trickle down to the high school level. 3. 4. 5.
Koulutuksen virtuaalinen tulevaisuus Kuva: Alusta! ’I think you just got the glimpse of the future of education’ (Bill Gates) Alustus! Khan Akatemian kehitti Salman Khan, bostonilainen pörssianalyytikko, joka opetti New Orleanissa asuville serkuilleen matematiikkaa etänä ja latasi kokeilumielessä pari videota YouTubeen. Nähtyään videot Khanin serkut ilmoittivat katsovansa mieluummin niitä kuin Khanin reaaliaikaista live-opetusta. Khan alkoi myös saada positiivista palautetta ihmisiltä eri puolelta maailmaa: ’Ensimmäistä kertaa hymyilin derivoidessani’. Khanin serkut olivat oikeassa: Keskimääräisellä koulun matematiikantunnilla terävimmät oppilaat kyllästyvät, heikoimmat tipahtavat ja keskiverto-oppilaat hyötyvät tilanteesta eniten. Khan Akatemiassa opettajan rooli, opetustilanne ja kotitehtävät muuttuvat: entiset live-oppitunnit katsotaan nyt kotona videolla, ja luokkahuoneessa opettajat voivat keskittyä kehittämään ongelmaratkaisutaitoja. Näin hyvää ideaa ei tietenkään jätetty vain kouluun.
MOOCs and Hype Again I have a confession to make. I dropped out of a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Artificial Intelligence at Stanford university in the Fall of 2011. There were over 160,000 other students in the class from all over the world. I listened to the two professors on my laptop give mini-lectures, watched fast hands scrawl quickly and cleverly over whiteboards to graphically display the concepts they were teaching. I found the information fascinating. MOOCs have soared in popularity as the “disruptive innovation” that will revolutionize higher education. Right before our eyes we are experiencing the very beginning of the hype cycle. My guess is that the Artificial Intelligence course at Stanford in 2011 triggered the cycle. Technology Trigger: A potential technology breakthrough kicks things off. Of course, Stanford and hundreds of other universities (including for-profit ones) have offered online courses for decades. What I can say is that at this stage of the hype cycle, hyperbole rules.
5 Potential Ways MOOCs Will Evolve In order to understand where MOOCs are heading (at least taking a stab at guessing their future), it’s important to know what the stated goals are. In case you’re still new to MOOCs, here’s a helpful rundown of the guiding principles behind MOOCs : Aggregation. The whole point of a connectivist MOOC is to provide a starting point for a massive amount of content to be produced in different places online, which is later aggregated as a newsletter or a web page accessible to participants on a regular basis. This is in contrast to traditional courses, where the content is prepared ahead of time. An earlier list (2005) of Connectivist principles from Siemens also informs the pedagogy behind MOOCs: Learning and knowledge rest in diversity of opinions. Now that you’re a MOOCs expert, let’s examine where they could lead. 1) Most Likely: More Startups, More Schools Offer MOOCs 2) Sorta Likely: Many Schools Join edX & Similar Alliances, Large Companies Try To Make Money Off MOOCs