Online learning is not the whipping boy of higher education. As a classroom teacher first and foremost, I have no interest in proselytizing for online learning, but to roundly condemn it is absurd. Online learning is too big and variable a target. It would be like roundly condemning the internet or all objects made from paper.
Un nuevo modelo de educación en internet está revolucionando las mayores universidades del mundo. Los MOOCs prometen ser la mayor transformación de la enseñanza en décadas. Un fenómeno sin marcha atrás. ¿Es el futuro de las aulas gratuito y global?
Ejemplo de un profesor español realizando un MOOC. Alberto Cairo uno de los mayores expertos en infografía y gráficos de prensa:
Charlo por Alejandro Piscitelli, Universidad de Buenos Aires
La progresiva expansión de la virtualidad en las últimas décadas ha tenido un enorme impacto en la construcción de la subjetividad en la sociedad contemporán...
The infographic reports that most Americans are not currently pleased with the value of higher education: 57 percent of U.S. adults said that the higher education system fails to provide students with good value for their money. If changes are needed, how much can we expect will change by 2020? The infographic reports that 39 percent of those surveyed believe only modest changes will occur in higher education (defined below in the infographic), while 60 percent believe that substantial change will occur in the next eight years, and that higher education will look much different than it does today.
You might have missed it but right now there is another revolution going on: MOOC – Massive Open Online Courses. The idea is that exceptional teachers make their lectures available to everyone.
To read about higher education today, one might get the impression that the whole ivy-covered edifice is on shaky ground, ready to collapse. Universities are certainly facing big challenges, but much of what’s being said seems to me wildly pessimistic. The metaphors used to describe this parlous state I find particularly amusing.
Desde 2004, The New Media Consortium , en colaboración con la EDUCASE Learning Initiative, publica The Horizon Report, un ánalisis de las tecnologías más relevantes para los siguientes cinco años en el sector educativo así como las tendencias en las que se enmarcan.
Este volumen recoge siete experiencias reales de innovación docente desarrolladas con éxito en la enseñanza superior de los estudios denominados tradicionalmente “de letras“ de dos universidades catalanas, la Universidad Pompeu Fabra y la Universidad de Barcelona. La voluntad de las editoras es mostrar casos reales que puedan servir de estímulo e inspiración para aquellos docentes que, en contextos universitarios similares, deseen innovar en sus clases. Estos casos ejemplifican los cambios docentes en los que en la última década se ha visto inmersa la enseñanza superior pública en España y la apuesta por la innovación pedagógica que se ha estado llevando a cabo en las aulas universitarias con el objetivo de alcanzar la unificación del Espacio Europeo de Educación Superior (EEES).
Los autores de los capítulos son profesores expertos en su ámbito disciplinar que han vivido la transformación del espacio docente universitario de los últimos años y que describen sus esfuerzos por ofrecer una docencia de calidad y usar la tecnología como recurso pedagógico. Así, el lector podrá encontrar en este volumen la descripción de la docencia de asignaturas tanto de primer como de segundo ciclo pertenecientes a disciplinas humanísticas diversas: la sinología, la geografía, la lexicología y la morfología, la fonética, la crítica literaria, la historia y el arte.
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...
Alfredo Corell's insight:
It's a diary of the experiences in various MOOCs, both xMOOC and cMOOC. Very deep thoughts to take into account
Although difficult to measure, it is unlikely that higher education has had any productivity advance in the 50 years since I finished college. Economists like Princeton's William Baumol have argued that rising college costs are inevitable, given inherent limitations on reducing the cost of disseminating knowledge -only so many people can fit into a room to hear a lecture.
Joi Ito plans a radical reinvention of MIT’s Media Lab –-
Joi Ito, 46-year-old director of MIT's Media Lab since last September, has just selected the faculty's newest outpost: the troubled streets of downtown Detroit. "I was in a rough neighbourhood there yesterday, where there are miles and miles of bombed out buildings, and it just blows your mind to see a bunch of kids building urban farms," he says back in his office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "They have no streetlights. If you connect a streetlight to the grid, it gets controlled by the city and regulated. So they're thinking, how can we create solar-powered low-cost streetlights, as that will lower crime? They have a maker space in a church, a place where the kids can learn how to build a computer, a bike shop where they can learn how to do repairs. The kid who runs this place, Jeff Sturges, is awesome.We're sending a bunch of Media Lab people to Detroit to work with local innovators already doing stuff on the ground."
MOOCs get a bad rap. Dismissed as prescriptive, or teacher-centric, or unsocial, or something else, it’s like a badge of honour to espouse why you dislike MOOCs.
Despite their pedagogical flaws, however, MOOCs provide unprecedented access to quality content for millions of learners.
Las soluciones MOOC para la creación y gestión de cursos masivos en línea, es una de las últimas hot trends en la industria del e-learning. Aproximación inicial a herramientas como unX, Aprendo, Coursera, Lore, Canvas Network, OpenClass, edX, UniMOOC y Udacity.
Dear Editor, Nationally, more students are participating in doctoral education than ever before. In particular, doctoral education has benefited from dramatic increases in enrollments of international students, minorities and women. Yet, at U.S. institutions, 63 percent of Ph.D. students in the field of economics (60 percent in engineering, 45 percent in physical and mathematical sciences), are foreigners.
Les than 4% of students pass the final at MIT online courses:
US academics are using the web to offer world-class tuition – free – to anyone who can log on, anywhere in the world.
Publishing, music, shopping, journalism – all revolutionised by the internet. Next in line? Education. Now US academics are offering world-class tuition – free – to anyone who can log on, anywhere in the world, is this the end of campus life?
SEDA is the professional association for staff and educational developers in the UK, promoting innovation and good practice in higher education. SEDA is seen by many as the shaper of thought and initiator of action in staff and educational development, not only in the UK but in the international domain also.
Internet:Es la primera vez que tenemos una prótesis para ampliar las habilidades de la mente
Sugatra Mitra es un profesor proveniente de la India, que entre sus múltiples pasiones se encuentra la relativa a estudiar el proceso de enseñanza y de aprendizaje en función de mejorarlo por una educación más amplia y justa.
Desde hace más de una década estamos asistiendo al auge de diversas modalidades educativas que enriquecen los entornos de aprendizaje. Estos nuevos escenarios son posibles, en buena medida, gracias a la utilización de las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación aplicadas a la educación.
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