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Learning and teaching in a digital age: MOOCs, OERs and innovation | RIDE Conference 2017 Blog

Learning and teaching in a digital age: MOOCs, OERs and innovation | RIDE Conference 2017 Blog | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
The Centre for Distance Education at the University of London has held an annual conference under the ‘RIDE’ strapline almost every year since its institution in 2005. These meetings have become a popular fixture in academics’ and learning technologists’ calendars in and beyond London, and this year’s, held at Senate House on Friday March 24th, was very well received. It was ably chaired by two CDE Fellows, Stylianos Hatzipanagos of King’s College London and Alan Tait from the Open University, and the programme included speakers from as far afield as the Universities of Plymouth and Lorraine (France) as well as many home-grown London ones.
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Time to retire from online learning?

Time to retire from online learning? | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

And then there’s MOOCs. I can’t express adequately just how pissed off I am about MOOCs – not the concept, but all the hubris and nonsense that’s been talked and written about them. At a personal level, it was as if 45 years of work was for nothing. All the research and study I and many others had done on what makes for successful learning online were totally ignored, with truly disastrous consequences in terms of effective learning for the vast majority of participants who took MOOCs from the Ivy League universities. Having ignored online learning for nearly 20 years, Stanford, MIT and Harvard had to re-invent online learning in their own image to maintain their perceived superiority in all things higher educational.


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diane gusa's comment, April 16, 2014 9:35 AM
Yes! As an online learner and teacher I found the absence of best practices for online learning missing in all my Mooc participation. It would better be termed distance learning, falling back to the correspondence education of the past.
Alberto del Mazo's curator insight, April 18, 2014 7:38 AM

vía [url=/u/174100 x-already-notified=1]Jordi Adell[/url] leo este último artículo del canadiense Tony Bates, especialista en "online learning". 

Halina Ostańkowicz-Bazan's curator insight, April 22, 2014 7:17 AM

Lastly, I am concerned that the computer scientists seem to be taking over online education. Ivy League MOOCs are being driven mainly by computer scientists, not educators. Politicians are looking to computer science to automate learning in order to save money. Computer scientists have much to offer, but they need more humility and a greater willingness to work with other professionals, such as psychologists and teachers, who understand better how learning operates. This is a battle that has always existed in educational technology, but it’s one I fear the educators are losing. The result could be disastrous, but that’s a theme for a whole set of blog posts.

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Essay on three key facts on distance education | Inside Higher Ed

Essay on three key facts on distance education | Inside Higher Ed | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

I know! I know! Everyone is sick to death of debating the pros and cons of MOOCs, the massive online courses that, depending on your viewpoint, will be the downfall or resurrection of higher education. But what's getting lost in all the noise is that MOOCs are far from the only game in town when it comes to online education.

Key in determining the effectiveness of a course, both online and on the ground, is how actively it is being taught and how effectively it is engaging students.

Educators are creating and tweaking a number of very different learning models to engage students in "active learning," both in the physical classroom and the virtual world – often in intriguing combinations.


Read more: http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/09/10/essay-three-key-facts-distance-education#ixzz2fia5vZLP
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Distance learning: who's doing it now?

Distance learning: who's doing it now? | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it
Datablog: Moocs appear to be revolutionising the world of education. We study the numbers to find out whether it's all just a lot of hype
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ICDE » ICDE and partners launch Global Online Higher Education Report initiative

ICDE » ICDE and partners launch Global Online Higher Education Report initiative | Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path | Scoop.it

Have you ever looked for good research data on the global impact of distance or online learning and discovered that this just doesn't exist?

CDE has partnered with UNESCO, the European Commission, the International Association of Universities, the Sloan Consortium, StudyPortals and Babson Survey Research Group to begin work on this formidable task.

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The global landscape of post-secondary education is in a period of dramatic change. A significant driver for this has been a dramatic rise in the use of technology and the extension of the traditional campus to more learners.

Although there is clear evidence of the growth of online learning, the global data remains anecdotal or limited in scope. There has been no formal effort or process to define online learning in the global context.

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The Global Online Higher Education Report (GlobalOHER) initiative is designed to address this deficiency by conducting a global survey and issuing a report that will provide:

Information on enrolments and programmes offered onlineInformation on the role of MOOCs around the worldInformation on the adoption of Open Education Resources, OERPerspectives on the importance of online learning in institutional strategiesThe challenges institutions face in delivering high quality programs and servicesA framework of the policy issues that institutions believe need to be addressed
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» MOOCs and Distance Education Institutions Virtual Canuck

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Promise and/or Peril:  MOOCs and Open and Distance Education

Terry Anderson

Athabasca University

March 2013

The New York Times declared 2012 to be the year of the MOOC (Pappano, 2012) and certainly 2013 is becoming the year to talk about MOOCs! Questions related to the design and inherent pedagogies, registration numbers, persistence rates, revenue models, neo-liberal agenda, fears and aspirations of all of us in postsecondary education have been ignited by this combination of technology and pedagogy. MOOCs are rapidly becoming the type of disruptive technology described by Christensen (1997) as cheaper, smaller, initially less fully featured and attracting a new set of consumers into an existing market.

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