User:Vtaylor/MOOCs/MOOCs 2013

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MOOC-Makers Kit

Q: xMOOC or cMOOC - audience, subject, learning outcomes. support - tools, platform.


  • http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2013/09/moocs_need_to_go_back_to_their_roots.html - average completion rate of just 7 percent. By and large the material is no more compelling than a textbook, and certificates of completion aside, there’s no reward for finishing the class. Interaction between teachers and students in MOOCs is so minimal. Stephen Downes and George Siemens, a pair of Canadian academics, developed the MOOC in 2008 as a proof of concept of their connectivist theory of education. Drawing from neuroscience and computer networking, connectivism postulates that knowledge is distributed across human and nonhuman nodes in a network. Downes and Siemens argue that in the 21st century, education is the ability to navigate this network, link disparate fields, and contribute to the understanding of other people. MOOC developers should be designing platforms that work for traditional scholarly fields and the new skills of the global economy. ongoing discussion that encourages participants to share what they know with one another, rather than perform for some distant grader. making a space for engaged education that rewards helping others as a prelude to learning,


2013.09.25 - canvas, big blue button, youtube live free 100 people in channel ? 1000 participants 400 live/5000

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Hybrid * Hybrid - add mobile to our middles school program utilizing a blended learning format and learn how this group performs. Colorado Mountain College

  • enhancing learning report summary - different technologies can improve learning by augmenting and connecting proven learning activities. Teachers may require additional training that enables them to use technologies in new ways. technological innovation aimed at supporting Learning through Assessment – which can be a powerful aid to teaching and learning. areas where technology is currently undervalued and underused. ** We found relatively little technological innovation in some of the more effective learning themes we considered in Chapter 2.
  • 2012.11.19

Lots of questions. Do the kids have personal smartphones? Is this BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology or is there money to buy / rent / maintain mobile technology? What do you need to get buy-in from the administration? What do the intervention teachers know about mobile technology? Is this all taking place at school? Is there wifi to access YouTube, Khan Academy videos at school? Are you adopting Common Core standards?

I looked around the Colorado Mountain College. Nice program. Are there students who are available and interested in working on this project? Is that an objective - to provide a mobile development project?

We are using Edmodo as the "wrapper" for most of what we are working on - notices, lists of assignments, some quizzes. The teachers are using iPhones more than the kids, but this could change. There are some classroom computers and kids prefer to use them for browsing and other web-based activities.

There are concerns about putting applications onto personal phones, even with parent permission and school paying any costs. For school-owned mobile devices, there are concerns about keeping them in sync and dealing with any applications that the kids install.

And that's before talking about any teaching and learning. ;o)

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