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Privileged institutions have accepted that they, too, will be transformed by the web. But what will that look like? Via John Shank 
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The NMC Horizon Report predicts six technologies that will have a significant impact on teaching and learning in the next five years.
Laura Rosillo's curator insight,
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Seis Tecnologías de Alto Impacto en la Educación y el Aprendizaje 
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6 High-Impact Technologies in Higher Education
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Farrago was first published as the independent voice of students at the University of Melbourne in 1925. Its content is written entirely by students under the direction of the editorial team.
Alfredo Corell's insight:
Student's opinion about MOOCs
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I present here a compilation of news, thoughts, and movements in the MOOCs field.
- A main concern is the low level of courses completions (below 10%):
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/measuring-the-success-of-online-education , one can consider 20% completion a success: http://technorati.com/technology/article/are-massive-open-online-courses-moocs/
- In the same line, a Coursera's MOOC had 180.000 students, but less than 26.000 are now running: http://www.hackcollege.com/blog/2013/01/22/duke-university-professors-mooc-has-180000-students.html
-On the other hand US universities are thinking to link a first free MOOC with a second official course for credit in the named "MOOC2Grade":
-Competition between Universities is open for the MOOC market, New international alliances are growing: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/01/22/foreign-universities-consider-how-best-enter-mooc-market
-Thoughts about knowledge transmition from a MOOC pioner professor (Scott E. Page): http://at.blogs.wm.edu/thoughts-from-a-mooc-pioneer/
IF YOU NEED SOME GUIDANCE, THEN:
-Alec Couros on Jan 22, 2013,Slides used to facilitated the Introduction to Connected Learning session in #etmooc: ttp://www.slideshare.net/courosa/etmooc-connected-learning-A collection of MOOCs to search in Class Central: http://www.class-central.com/
-Collection of posts in eLearning Industry about MOOCs, history of how is learning in a Harvard's MOOC: http://elearningindustry.com/subjects/general/item/438-the-rise-and-history-of-moocs-infographic-prezi-presentation
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Un profesor de La Laguna crea junto a un grupo de alumnos un sistema que redacta y comprueba evaluaciones tipo test
¿La vuelta al papel en los exámenes para ser más rápidos?
Parece incoherente... pero es cierto. Yo repito cada prueba hasta 6 veces, pues las aulas multimedia tienen 35 puestos y yo hasta 190 alumnos en una misma asignatura.
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Here you have 3 more thoughts about MOOCs from today:
A proposal to prevent drop-outs in MOOCs (one of the big problems):
http://anniemurphypaul.com/2013/01/a-modest-proposal-to-prevent-mooc-drop-outs/#
When can a MOOC be considered massive (enrolement numbers???):
http://isitjustme.de/2013/01/when-can-a-mooc-be-considered-massive/
And finally, Can MOOC’s Really Transform Education?
http://wiredcosmos.com/2013/01/14/can-moocs-really-transform-education/
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Current is important, but not the most. If anything is interesting and applicable and remains useful, it doesn't matther that was built up 3 years ago...
To choose which news story to curate and pass on to your readers, is not always something easy to do.
My personal suggestion is to look only for the most interesting and relevant stories for your audience while leaving out anything that is mildly interesting. I'd always go for quality over quantity and I would not discard little-read stories or dated ones, because of these two factors. Rather I'd select them on the basis of their immediate usefulness to my reader and not on the one of their freshness or recency.
Serena Matter, of the Canadian Public Relations Society, has just published a short article suggesting three key criteria to employ in selecting what news to curate each day. She writes:
"Finding content to share online can be a challenge, especially when your goal is to provide information of interest to your followers.
In many instances, it is easier to re-tweet something that appears in your newsfeed, even if it’s not that relevant to your industry, than to come up with new material.
However, this wastes a valuable opportunity to engage your online stakeholders. Rather than taking the easy way out, there are a few simple guidelines you can follow to ensure any content you share offers value. When creating or searching for material to share, keep this acronym in mind: C.I.A. (Current, Interesting, Applicable)."
But beware: "current" is a misleading variable, as "something" can be "current" depending on the specific context in which it is presented and it is not an absolute trait of a news story.
A story from two years ago can be made immediately current and relevant simply by relating and connecting it to other information which is directly impacting our present.
Good for beginners. 6/10
Full article: http://www.cprsvancouver.com/what-should-i-post-today-guide-content-curation
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More opinions and comments about the hot-MOOCing thing!!!
this by Eric Horowitz
From Where I Sit - More to Moocs than moolah: by Alan Ruby
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=422291
Why a MOOC? 6 reasons, by Bernard Bull
http://etale.org/main/2012/12/21/why-a-mooc-6-reasons/
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Qué es un MOOC: ¿Fuimos un MOOC?
Por Miguel Zapata, Catedra UNESCO de Educación a Distancia, muy buenas reflexiones: http://blogcued.blogspot.com.es/2013/01/que-es-un-mooc-fuimos-el-primer-mooc.html
QUÉ SON LOS MOOC? Universidad de Alicante (excelente relato histórico y FAQs sobre los MOOCs)
http://desarrolloweb.dlsi.ua.es/cursos/2012/que-son-los-moocs/preguntas-respuestas
MOOCs y Big Data, el siguiente nivel en la educación (Javier Díaz Sánchez)
16 lugares para cursar MOOCs por Juan Domingo Farnós
http://juandomingofarnos.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/16-lugares-para-cursar-moocs/
Coursera comienza a emitir Certificados oficiales de sus cursos:
http://wwwhatsnew.com/2013/01/09/coursera-comienza-a-ofrecer-certificados-oficiales-de-sus-cursos/
La UPV se lanza a los MOOCs:
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The company, Coursera, plans to announce on Wednesday the start of a pilot project to check the identities of its students and offer “verified certificates” of completion, for a fee. A key part of that validation process will involve what Coursera officials call “keystroke biometrics”—analyzing each user’s pattern and rhythm of typing to serve as a kind of fingerprint.
On the Meanwhile,
eCornell Offers a MOOC That Steers Students to a Paid Follow-Up
Enter the MOOC (Popular... but lucrative??)
http://thepowerelite.blogspot.com.es/2013/01/enter-mooc.html
In MOOCs, what are teachers for???
http://suifaijohnmak.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/in-mooc-what-are-teachers-for/
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Si quieres empezar el año 2013 con buen pie y formándote, aquí te presento algunos MOOCs que encuentro interesantes para aquellos que estamos vinculados al mundo del eLearning. Los que a mi persona...
Si no tienes trabajo, si terminaste tu grado y/o master... estas opciones pueden interesarte. Ten en cuenta que, en general, en los MOOCs no se certifican los estudios
Aparte de interesantes para personas vinculadas al e-Learning, pueden ser motivadores para personas que han completado grados/másteres y no tienen de momento salidas en el mercado laboral.
La mayoría no dan certificado de estudios, ese es el handicap.
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Higher education institutions are abuzz with the concept of Open Badges.
For higher education institutions interested in keeping pace, establishing a digital ecosystem around badges to recognize college learning, skill development and achievement is less a threat and more an opportunity. Used properly, Open Badge systems help motivate, connect, articulate and make transparent the learning that happens inside and outside classrooms during a student’s college years.
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Working with Academic Partnerships, Sir John Daniel and Stamenka Uvalic-Trumbic have released a Guide to Quality in Post-Traditional Online Higher Education Gui
The new Guide aims to help individuals and institutions that are adopting post-traditional approaches by outlining key issues to consider when assuring the quality of their offerings. The guide is structured in the form of ‘Frequently Asked Questions’ as a simple way of presenting the central arguments and is aimed at university decision-makers, faculty and academic staff, government policy-makers, funding bodies, and researchers.
download the guide: http://www.icde.org/?module=Files;action=File.getFile;ID=3252
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The NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition is a collaborative effort between the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE Program.
You can download the pdf complete report: http://www.smarthighered.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2013-EMERGING-TECHNOLOGIES-IN-HIGHER-EDUCATION.-HORIZON-REPORT.pdf
Academe is one of the biggest, most obvious targets of disruptive innovation, and on-the-job education is an aspect of it, via the previous post by Christensen. Here's what Educause has to say about it. See my Social, peer learning & curation stream to learn about "Peer Learning Circles." ~ D
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This is the second in a seven-part series on National Board Certification Standards for teachers. “Teachers are committed to students and their learning” (NBPTS Core Proposition #1).
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Class Central is a free online course aka MOOC aggregator from top universites like Stanford, MIT, Harvard, etc. offered via Coursera, Udacity, edX, & others
Follow your favourite universities. Find out the MOOC you're looking for on Class Central, a comple collection of courses in progress, just announced or future courses...
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"La calidad nunca es un accidente; siempre es el resultado de un esfuerzo de la inteligencia" (John Ruskin)
Je comprends imparfaitement l'espagnol mais j'ai trouvé ce que j'ai compris vraiment intéressant et à voir.
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Miríada X ofrece una plataforma a los docentes o equipos docentes de cualquiera de las universidades iberoamericanas que conforman la Red Universia en la que poder crear e impartir Cursos Online Masivos en Abierto (más conocidos como MOOC's), accesibles para todo el mundo de manera gratuita.
Si eres docente universitario y deseas conocer las herramientas que Miríada X te ofrece para crear tus propios Cursos Online Masivos en Abierto (MOOCs), escribe a info@miriadax.net y solicítanos acceso a la plataforma.
Aprende y comparteEntra y descubre los cursos online que te ofrecen las universidades iberoamericanas de forma gratuita y en abierto a través de Miríada X.
ParticipaYa está abierta la I Edición del Premio MECD-Telefónica LearningServices-Universia al mejor Curso Online Masivo en Abierto (MOOC) de Miríada X. Consulta las bases aquí.
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By Elizabeth Kate Switaj who is proposing the changing for MOON (Mass of Open Online Networks).
And more thoughts in
Beyond the MOOC Hype: Answers to the Five Biggest MOOC Questions (Part 1) http://www.evolllution.com/distance_online_learning/beyond-the-mooc-hype-answers-to-the-five-biggest-mooc-questions-part-1/
Finally, one important question on the hot-MOOC arena: Are Student Completion rates related to their investment?
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Background There is currently much interest and excitement at the emergence of an educational approach commonly termed the ‘Massive Open Online Course’ or MOOC. These MOOCs are truly global in thei...
It's a diary of the experiences in various MOOCs, both xMOOC and cMOOC. Very deep thoughts to take into account
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Daphne Koller, one of the two founders of Coursera, describes some of the key features of the Coursera MOOCs, and the lessons she has learned to date about teaching and learning from these courses. The video is well worth watching, just for this.
Where is the servant leadership that forsters learners to identify and stimulate ambitions?
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Forbes labelled the university professor the least stressful job of 2013. Are there wider assumptions about the role of the modern academic that need to be addressed here?
I think this job is quite stressful. I don't know the conditions of the survey published by Forbes but... just a visit to psychologists and psychiatrists and the simple question of "what is the job of your patients?" and the proportion of academics is one of the highest among users.(University professor, Higher School or Middle School teachers)
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Providers of free online courses are officially in the headhunting business, bringing in revenue by selling to employers information about high-performing students who might be a good fit for open jobs.
It makes sense. Recruiting high performing mooc students who might fit a particular job is like having an extended online interview that really shows what a person can do.
When the motivation for learning is a job instead of a grade, I'm guessing high performance will occur..
So how exactly does online education figure into the future of elite higher education? Judging by what we’ve seen so far, the answer can be divided into three parts:
1. Free online courses for everyone.
2. Paid online courses for professional graduate programs.
3. Online components in face-to-face undergraduate courses.