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Inter-American Dialogue | Role of E-Learning in Higher Education in Latin America
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- Services (IMLS) to study blockchain — a distributed ledger technology that has potential uses far beyond bitcoin — for its uses in libraries, museums and other community institutions
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Blendflex lets students toggle between online or face-to-face courses
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How to effectively scale a digital learning model | Education Dive
- They revealed four conclusions of an extensive research project on the topic: take a strategic portfolio approach to digital learning; build capabilities and expertise to design for quality in the digital realm; provide the differential student support to succeed in fully online learning; and engage faculty as true partners, equipping them for success.
- She explained Rio Salado kept costs down while scaling it's digital learning platform by using of adjunct faculty for online classes and compensating them from a step-function paradigm, where teachers are paid per enrollee
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Putting Learners First: The Future of Microcredentialing | The EvoLLLution
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Open educational resources offer exciting possibilities, though impediments remain (opinion)
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Recapping the year in digital learning -- and the developments that will last
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Microcredentials, MicroMasters, and Nanodegrees: What’s the Big Idea? | The EvoLLLution
- It’s worth noting that this first crop of microcredentials is being offered, not by colleges and universities, but rather non-traditional providers, some of which—like edX and Udacity—represent the newest incarnation of MOOCs
- their appeal is squarely vocational.
- EdX’s MicroMasters are “a Pathway to Today’s Top Jobs”—even though the programs are simply “graduate-level courses from top universities designed to advance your career.”
- It does raise the question, though: Why pursue a full master’s degree if five courses alone are enough to confer career success?
- The downsizing of the degree thus constitutes a rebuke to the higher education establishment, even if the establishment itself is creating them.
- Microcredentials—which, let’s face it, sound more grownup than “badges”—also address another problem: our all-or-nothing approach to conferring postsecondary credentials.
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Saturday, December 23, 2017
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Detecting Multiple-Accounts Cheating in MOOCs | TU Delft Repositories
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Detecting and Preventing "Multiple-account" Cheating in MOOCs
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[1508.05699] Detecting and Preventing "Multiple-Account" Cheating in Massive Open Online Courses
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Research Uncovers MOOC Cheating Strategy -- Campus Technology
- Researchers from MIT and Harvard University have uncovered a new cheating scheme specific to MOOCs. As they explain in a working paper freely available online, some students are taking advantage of design features that allow for the creation of multiple accounts for a MOOC platform. They use some of the accounts to ferret out the right and wrong answers to quizzes; then they use one remaining account to submit only the correct answers.
- "copying answers using multiple existences online" or CAMEO.
- "This is not an isolated incident of copying on part of one assignment," Ho says. "This is the wholesale falsification of a certificate."
- Preventing CAMEO may be as simple as mixing up the questions from one test-taker to the next or withholding answers until after all assignments are due, according to the report. But content providers will have to consider the trade-offs. For example, the report said, "If instructors withhold the 'show answer' option until after the problems are graded, this would constrain generally desirable asynchronous MOOC usage, and students will not have the rapid feedback touted as a pedagogical benefit of online learning environments." Also, randomizin questions are easier in some types of courses than others.
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Saturday, December 16, 2017
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The Future of Coding in Schools | Edutopia
- I think the reasons for learning to code are the same as the reasons for learning to write. When we learn to write, we are learning how to organize, express, and share ideas. And when we learn to code, we are learning how to organize, express, and share ideas in new ways, in a new medium.
- four words that begin with the letter p: projects, passion, peers, and play.
- One role the teacher is playing is the role of connector—connecting peers with one another to work together on solving problems.
- Teachers also act as catalysts by asking provocative questions: “What do you think will happen if...?”
- Break down the barriers between class periods, because 50-minute chunks are too constraining if you want to work on projects. Break down the barriers between disciplines, because meaningful projects almost always cut across disciplines. Break down the barriers between ages and have older kids work with younger kids—both groups benefit. And break down the barriers between inside of school and outside of school—have kids work on projects that are meaningful to their communities and bring people from the communities into the schools to support the teachers.
- I would take a portfolio-like approach, looking at what kids create.
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Towards an Ethical Framework for #OpenRecognition – Learning Futures
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Hattie Effect Size 2016 Update
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The Problem of Teaching Presence in Transactional Theories of Distance Education - ScienceDirect
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"Applying a Community of Inquiry Instrument to Measure Student Engageme" by Carol A.V. Damm
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Curriculum & Leadership Journal | Skills for the 21st Century: teaching higher-order thinking
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Demystifying MOOCs: An Eye-Opening Ethnographic Study of Online Education | Ethnography Matters
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Introducing the Online Learning Efficacy Research Database « WCET Frontiers
"WCET is thrilled to welcome Mary Ellen Dello Stritto and Katie Linder, from the Oregon State University Ecampus, to introduce the new Online Learning Efficacy Research Database. This database will help you find citations for higher education studies that compare different modalities of instruction (such as online versus blended courses). Read on to learn more about this important new tool."
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Directory of Vendors of Online Learning Products and Services | teachonline.ca
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Upcoming Conferences by Clayton R. Wright crwr77[@]gmail.com | teachonline.ca
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Which is the best LMS platform, among OpenEdx, Coursera and Moodle? - Quora
- Whereas Moodle has a large active community base with varied experience from different domains. There are many Moodle partners and freelance developers out there to support just in case.
- Customization: Moodle has a modular architecture allowing you to customize features by creating modules and plugins. There is large community plugin directory which you can utilize to extend your LMS
- integration with ERPs, Payment gateways, HRMs, CMS, Virtual Classes and many other tools
- It has been around for a while which means it is pretty well full featured and has a great active community.
- unlike Moodle, it doesn’t natively support SCORM packages
- Moodle offers a good balance feature set for both students and teachers whereas Open edX is more student centred
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If your goal is to create a learning site that can handle massive unlimited concurrent participants, Open edX is probably what you are looking for.
If you goal is to manage a learning site for your organization or educational institution, Moodle is probably what you are looking for.
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Collaboration Kills Creativity, According to Science | Inc.com
- Despite this kind of corporate-speak truthiness, there is substantial scientific evidence that collaboration, rather than sparking creativity, results in group-think and mediocrity. What does result in creativity? Simple: solitude.
- "two ways in which solitude can facilitate creativity--first, by stimulating imaginative involvement in multiple realities and, second, by 'trying on' alternative identities, leading, perhaps, to self-transformation... by separating us from our usual social and physical environments, solitude can remove those people and objects that define and confirm our identities. The people we see and the places we frequent reinforce our identities as students, parents, police officers, or whomever.... By extracting us from our customary social and physical contexts (or at least altering our experience of them), solitude facilitates self-examination, reconceptualization of the self, and coming to terms with change."
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- Deeper learning, a term used to define the skills and knowledge that students need for successful entry into 21st century careers and civic life, is comprised of six competencies: mastery of core academic content, critical thinking and complex problem solving, effective communication, collaboration, learning to learn, and an academic mindset (William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, 2013).
- Open Educational Practice (OEP) as comprising a set of skills in collaboration, curation, curricular design, and leadership around the use of OER.
- OEP builds educator capacity for using OER to improve curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy, and to gain skills in digital resource curation and curriculum creation, and to actively collaborate around and advocate for innovative approaches to open education and OER.
- Buck Institute for Education’s Project Based Teaching Rubric identifies concrete deeper learning pedagogies.
- Deeper Learning Aligned Practices
Examples drawn from the Buck Institute for Education Project-Based Learning (PBL) Rubric - Without the integration of OER and OEP into their teaching practice, teachers miss the key benefits of OEP: 1) the ability to find and leverage the work of others to fit the classroom and elevate student engagement; 2) access to legal and technological structures to use, adapt, author content that is most relevant to deeper learning priorities; and 3) the advancement of teacher professionalism in a manner that benefits others and the field of education generally.
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This report introduces the fundamental principles of the Blockchain focusing on its potential for the education sector. It explains how this technology may both disrupt institutional norms and empower learners. It proposes eight scenarios for the application of the Blockchain in an education context, based on the current state of technology development and deployment.
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Valuing Professional Learning through Micro-credentials - Digital Promise
Saturday, November 25, 2017
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