Daily Randomly Sporto 12/01/2013

• Learning Theory - What are the established learning theories?

  tags: Mindmap learning pedagogy theory learningtheory

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Daily Randomly Sporto 11/28/2013

• Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013: Standards

  tags: trends standards

• The Education Apocalypse #opened13

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Daily Randomly Sporto 11/22/2013

• MOOCs Are Largely Reaching Privileged Learners, Survey Finds - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: learners higher education MOOCs mooc

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MOOCs are good for the autonomous learner: what is new?

As I read this article from the Chronicle this morning, I'm once again startled to see how those brought into the world of online learning through the MOOC door seem to ignore everything that has been done in the field of open & distance learning (ODL). 
MOOCs Are Largely Reaching Privileged Learners, Survey Finds - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The article concludes that MOOCs are reaching privileged learners. For those in the ODL field, this seems as expected and obvious. MOOC requires students to be independent - the autonomous learner, so well explained in Transactional Distance Theory by Moore. For a student to become an autonomous learner, an important process of meta-learning needs to take, in which the learner is aware of their learning process, and is empowered to become independent. This does not happen in vacuum and much has been studied and published in terms of the best practices in instructional design and pedagogy in order to make students achieve such independence. A MOOC itself will not promote such autonomy given its limited scaffolding components. Only a student, who is already independent could benefit from such environment. Students who have had no access to good quality education, in which autonomy has been slowly built, are for the most part unprepared to take part in these courses. 

The other important point is that if we are looking at MOOCs in English for an international audience, we are expecting that these foreign students be able to read and listen to English. In most countries, only students with access to high quality education will have such skills. (If the surveys had been done for MOOCs in other languages, then we might be reaching out to a larger group...).

Daily Randomly Sporto 11/21/2013

• Download the full free NMC Horizon Report > 201

  tags: HorizonReport edtech HigherEd horizon report technology

• Distance education state reciprocity initiative prepares to welcome first members | Inside Higher Ed

  tags: distance education reciprocity SARA state-authorization

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Daily Randomly Sporto 11/19/2013

• » Accreditation – for Learning Accomplishment or for Presence and Persistence? Virtual Canuck

  tags: accreditation learning accomplishment presence persistence competency-based competency-based learning

• Angered by MOOC Deals, San Jose State Faculty Senate Considers Rebuff - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: deals higher education mooc MOOCs faculty senate chronicle resistance

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Daily Randomly Sporto 11/15/2013

• http://www.contactnorth.ca/sites/default/files/contactNorth/files/pdf/publications/ten_guiding_principles_for_use_of_technology_in_learning.pdf

  tags: edtech technology contactnorth Ontario DETC630

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Daily Randomly Sporto 11/14/2013

• Associação Brasileira do Trauma

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Daily Randomly Sporto 11/13/2013

• From the Archives: Google in the Writing Classroom - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: archives google writing classroom higher education

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Daily Randomly Sporto 11/12/2013

• A New Architecture for Learning (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu

  tags: oer educause learning academic technology connected MOOCs

• CAEL Student Report - Meeting Students Where They Are

  tags: higher education competency-based center-for-american-progress

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Daily Randomly Sporto 11/10/2013

• State of the Anglosphere's Higher Education LMS Market: 2013 Edition |e-Literate

  "George Kroner’s great work"

  tags: higher education trends DETC630 education lms market

• tags: edtech analysis LMS trends market DETC630

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New data on LMS market US and beyond

Following closely Feldstein's blog (http://mfeldstein.com) and reading posts from Feldstein, Phil Hill and others, I was gladly surprised to see a UMUC person be mentioned by their thorough work on tracking LMS data...

George Kroner has been mentioned several times lately in this blog as well as Inside Higher-Ed for his work posted on EduTechnica - http://edutechnica.com/.

This is worth reading, and also the other blog posts on the topic, listed below... True that the work is not related to UMUC, but it is still a good thing to have this kind of work done by people who work at UMUC... Impressive work!

http://mfeldstein.com/new-data-available-higher-education-lms-market/

http://mfeldstein.com/state-anglospheres-higher-education-lms-market-2013-edition/

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/11/08/market-forecast-predicts-major-growth-within-lms-industry

--Stella.

Daily Randomly Sporto 11/09/2013

• Market forecast predicts major growth within LMS industry | Inside Higher Ed

  "report by the market research and consulting company MarketsandMarkets"

  tags: LMS inside higher-ed trends market DETC630

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Daily Randomly Sporto 11/08/2013

• Beyond the Hype: Understanding HTML5 and its Potential for e-Learning and mLearning by Judy Katz : Learning Solutions Magazine

• Profits? Amazon Prefers Technology | MIT Technology Review

  tags: profits amazon technology mit review logistics business IT

• Purdue OWL: Paraphrase Exercises

  tags: purdue exercises writing Writing Coaches Writing-coach paraphrasing

• Building Good Search Skills: What Students Need to Know | MindShift

  tags: search research information_literacy searching technology search_skills literacy

• It’s Time to Ditch the Transcript, Diploma, and Résumé | LinkedIn

  tags: transcript diploma résumé linkedin e-portfolios OMDE670

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Daily Randomly Sporto 11/07/2013

• What “Disrupt” Really Means | TechCrunch

• 7 non-university MOOC partnerships: Who are their students? | Education Dive

  tags: partnerships mooc MOOCs dive Coursera google

• New data available for higher education LMS market |e-Literate

  tags: LMS market e-Literate Phil Hill

• 5 Tips for Online Student Time Management

  tags: tips online student time management

• Rebranding: "MOOC" to "CaS" | Inside Higher Ed

  tags: cas mooc rebranding definition MOOCs inside higher-ed DETC630

• Four Ways to Prepare Your IT Infrastructure for a Mobile Learning Revolution « WCET Frontiers

  tags: infrastructure mobile learning wireless WCET DETC630

• Facebook could become a distribution vehicle for MOOCs, says global policy chief (Wired UK)

  tags: facebook MOOCs mooc distribution higher education DETC630

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Daily Randomly Sporto 11/06/2013

• With Open Platform, Stanford Seeks to Reclaim MOOC Brand - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: platform stanford technology chronicle higher education MOOCs mooc

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Daily Randomly Sporto 11/05/2013

• Degrees Based on What You Can Do, Not How Long You Went - NYTimes.com

  tags: degrees competency-based competency-based learning competency nytimes com

• MOOCs going mainstream? This may be the year

  tags: mooc washington post edX mit google

• Harvard-MIT venture edX teams with Google on platform for free online courses - The Washington Post

  tags: platform google online free venture harvard mit

• A Look at the Top Tools for Learning from WCET Closing Presenter, Jane Hart « WCET Frontiers

  tags: tools learning jane hart WCET DETC630

• College students: we're 'digitally distracted' - eCampus News | eCampus News

  tags: college students news mobile mobile learning distraction

• The Free eBook: How to become an eLearning Professional

  tags: free ebook elearning professional DETT621

• Duke U. professor plans massive collaborative effort to tackle the challenges facing higher education | Inside Higher Ed

  tags: MOOCs Duke Davidson HASTAC DETC630 MDE-Recommended

• The Neuroscience Of Learning: 41 Terms Every Teacher Should Know

  tags: neuroscience learning brain education

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Daily Randomly Sporto 11/02/2013

• 40 Ways to Use Google Apps in the Classroom - Google Drive

  tags: google apps google drive googledocs classroom technology GoogleDrive

• MOOCs Forum

  tags: MOOC MOOCs

• The EDUCAUSE Conference 2013: Highlights, Trends & Takeaways | online learning insights

  tags: educause conference highlights trends online online learning insights learning

• MOOCs and the Liberation of Higher Ed: Reflections from edX President - NPQ - Nonprofit Quarterly

  "http://www.liebertpub.com/mooc"

  tags: liberation higher ed reflections president edX MOOC MOOCs nonprofit

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