edtech and mooc updates
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Updates on
#EdTech and #MOOC
8th December 2012 By: Akhlesh Agarwal
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EdTech
• Acronym of Education Technology connected with tools for e-learning.
• Currently Edtech specialists are exploring such topics as integrating Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis, and other types of interactive technologies into the classroom to engage students and enhance the learning experience.
• EdTech is a growing field because it is widely acknowledged that today's students learn in different ways than students in the past and that teachers need to learn to reach their students in the most effective way.
Buzz on Teaching Learning Technologies
Biggest MOOCs
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https://www.coursera.org Started by Andrew Ng and Daphne koller from Stanford208 courses, 2M students
http://www.khanacademy.org/ With over 3,300 videos on everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history and hundreds of skills to practice
https://www.edx.org/MIT + Harvard + Berkley + U TexasCurrently 9 courses
http://www.udacity.com/By Sebastian Thrun of Stanford AI course fameCurrently 19 courses
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Latest updates
• Funding by gates foundation + other funds
• Growing and growing.
• American council of education(ACE) announces to recognize some credits from select MOOCs.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/13/moocs-college-credit/1699671/
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Why are they so successful
• Discipline of scheduled classes instead of total freedom of learning anytime anywhere.
• Cover all 5 parts of real school experience– Teacher– Content– Collaboration– Practice labs– Assessments
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Students Educators
MOOC Organizations Universities
A win-win for everybody
StudentsFree content.Learn from world’s best teachers.No entry test. Learn at your own pace.
EducatorsSatisfaction of teaching millions. Worldwide visibility. Research on new pedagogical models.
MOOC Websites/organizationsFunding by various foundations.Business model of charging employers or students who ask for certificate.
Universities Solution to faculty shortage: Allow course credits to students who attend classes from MOOC, and pass the assessment by the university.
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The future of MOOCs and their social impact26 Nov 2012
• Despite their pedagogical flaws, however, MOOCs provide unprecedented access to quality content for millions of learners.
• Consider the girl in Pakistan who’s too scared to set foot in a classroom. Consider the teenager in central Australia whose school has only one teacher. Consider the young woman in Indonesia who can’t afford college. Consider the boy in San Francisco whose maths teacher simply doesn’t teach very well.
Extracts…….
http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/the-future-of-moocs
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Predictions
• The vast majority of students will be overseas.
• Universities will flip their classrooms.• The role of the teacher will evolve.• The pedagogy of MOOCs will be enriched.• Content providers will charge for assessment.• Universities will offer credits for MOOCs.
http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/the-future-of-moocs
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Teacher Guides for Technology
• Teacher's Guide on The Use of Blogs in Teaching• Teacher's Guide on The Use of Wikis in Education• Teacher's Guide on The Use of Skype in Education• Teacher's Guide on The Use of iPad in Education• Teacher's Guide on The Use of QR Codes in The Classroom• Teacher's Comprehensive Guide on The Use of Social Networking in Education• A Simple Guide to All That Teachers Need to Know about Digital Citizenship• Teachers' Easy Guide to Social Learning• Teacher's Definitive Guide to Google Search Skills• Teacher's Guide on The Use of Games in Education• Teacher's Guide to The Most Important Web Tools in Education• The Entire Guide to Google Search Features for Teachers
http://iowaascd.org/index.php/members1/approaches-to-learning/teacher-guides-for-technology
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/
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If you are a bit baffled by technology, you are not alone
