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"10 Hottest Ed-Tech Stories of 2012" Jeff Young, Chronicle: #MOOC, eTexts, publishers, disruption http://t.co/wEE8XNNz #FIAumd #HigherEd 
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Abstract Universities play a unique role in society, providing a community of experimentation and innovation. Even so, leaders around the world have had to push for university primacy to retain competitiveness in the global economy. This paper examines efforts taken by universities in the United States to evaluate their contribution to economic development. An emerging role for universities is one of active neighborhood involvement, in which they are engaged in projects with local communities. These projects include providing assistance to local firms and policy advice to state and local government, and getting involved in community outreach. In this role and in an unprecedented manner, universities are engaging on a wide range of topics with local communities, using these communities as labs to test new ideas and find better ways to achieve social and economic goals. This is precisely why it is important to consider the larger role of universities’ in economic and social development.
Source: The engaged university DOI: 10.1007/s10961-010-9183-6 Via Wilfred Mijnhardt
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Alfredo Corell's insight:
Sencilla guía. menos de 4 minutos. Para los tiempos que corren y lo que nos piden algunos... incluso una píldora de información algo larga :)
Raúl Luna's curator insight,
December 26, 2012 12:10 PM
Una descripción básica de lo que supone el aprendizaje basado en proyectos.
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Massive open online courses are the educational happening of the moment. Everyone wants in. No one is quite sure what they’re getting into.
Alfredo Corell's insight:
More thoughts pros and cons about MOOCs. On the New York Times
Review of Openess on Science Education: http://blog.scienceexchange.com/2012/12/moocs-and-khan-academy-opening-up-science-education/
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DESARROLLADO POR 3 ESTUDIANTES DE LA UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA
Alfredo Corell's insight:
Revisión de esta página y de la Red Social IMALOGO en la revista educativa EDUCACIÓN 3.0
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What are the biggest apps to know about in the upcoming year? Our friends at Education Dive have assembled a useful list! Via Marta Torán, Alazne González
Marta Torán's curator insight,
December 15, 2012 1:42 PM
Educación Móvil-> Aplicaciones que utilizaremos en 2013: cursos en la mano, escáneres portátiles, diccionarios, recursos...
Aprendizaje en el bolsillo
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Whether public or private, universities cannot be exempt from regulation, says Miguel Angel Escotet, but it should come in the form of self-assessment and a duty to society, not politics
Alfredo Corell's insight:
the author states: "Autonomy will always be subordinate to the necessary response of universities to the needs, demands, characteristics and transformations of the social system of which they are a part. "
Are the goverments part of that social system? (one would answer "yes"). Then... for example, in Spain, the actual goverment is preparing a new Law for University regulation, with a tremendous loss of institutions actual autonomy. ... but are politicians really the best regulators of Universities? I'm afraid this is not the good road map...
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By Jesse Stommel
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.
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Por José Luis de Vicente - El Cultural.es
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: http://www.thefunctionalart.com/2012/11/second-intro-to-infographics-and-data.html
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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...
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![How Much Will Technology Change Higher Education? [Infographic] | | Create, Innovate & Evaluate in Higher Education | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/JZkuE1Wz34EtqoxqWMiMIzl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
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. Via Alazne González
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Once, students had to pay a pretty penny to get access to Ivy League courses and top-tier educational resources. Those days are long gone, as there are now thousands of free online learning opportunities available from some of the biggest names in education and business in the world.
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Universidades politécnicas y colegios de ingenieros, entre ellos de Zaragoza, así como profesorado, asociaciones de padres de alumnos, sindicatos y empresas se han unido para defender la inclusión y refuerzo de las enseñanzas de tecnología en la futura Ley Orgánica para la Mejora de la Calidad Educativa (Lomce).
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Campus virtuales: funcionalidades, ventajas y retos - Aprendemas.com
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Excelente artículo para ponerse al día del estado de la cuestión en Campus Virtuales.
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So what is a MOOC? What's the history of MOOCs? How are they growing? What are some significant events in the world of MOOCs?
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By Jeff Dunn
With a public four year in-state degree costing $89,044 on average it’s easy to see why anyone would be looking for alternatives. MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, may be the solution. Since the first MOOC in 2008, this phenomenon has been spreading amongst very well accredited colleges. The movement has grown rapidly with over 100 courses already scheduled for 2013.
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A brief, but in-depth look at the pedagogy, form and use of MOOCs | Virtual Strategy Magazine is an online publication devoted entirely to virtualization technologies.
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MOOC: análisis e impacto de los cursos masivos abiertos en línea: debaten profesores Iberoamericanos
Alfredo Corell's insight:
¿Innovación disruptiva, mismas metodologías con nuevo envase, tsunami educativo, revolución en ciernes, un nuevo modelo de marketing impulsado por las universidades? 21 especialistas de México, Colombia, Argentina, España, Perú, Canadá Paraguay, Holanda, Estados Unidos, Guatemala, Bolivia y Venezuela, ofrecen su punto de vista y visión crítica sobre un fenómeno que genera discusiones. También abordamos los antecedentes del modelo, las diferencias entre xMOOC y cMOOC, y las perspectivas que ofrece para América Latina.
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Alfredo Corell's insight:
Some final 2012 thoughts about what's going on on Higher Education
learning designer's curator insight,
December 18, 2012 10:32 AM
How does this vision of the future support the integration of UDL?
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This is a quick presentation about how technology impacted in education improvement within the last few years. Via Ana Cristina Pratas, Gust MEES
Alfredo Corell's insight:
It deserves a view. Strongly recomended for beginners in TICs, and those more inmersed too...
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La enseñanza de Introducción a la Sociología es algo casi automático para Mitchell Duneier, catedrático de la Universidad de Princeton en Nueva Jersey: la ha impartido 30 veces y el manual que coescribió ya va por su octava edición. Pero el pasado verano, mientras transformaba su clase en un curso gratuito en Internet, se vio enfrentado a algunos interrogantes novedosos: ¿dónde deberá centrar la mirada mientras una cámara graba sus clases? ¿Cómo podrían compartir sus ideas los 40.000 estudiantes que se matricularon online? ¿Y cómo saber lo que están aprendiendo?
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By Richard Vedder 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.
A Cautious Word about MOOCs (by J.M. Anderson): http://www.mindingthecampus.com/originals/2012/12/a_cautious_word_about_moocs.html
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By David Rowan 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."
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Despite their pedagogical flaws, however, MOOCs provide unprecedented access to quality content for millions of learners.
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If you haven’t heard of MOOCs, you no doubt will, because these Massive Open Online course are becoming all the rage, tagged as the biggest thing in public education since, well, the dawn of public education. (It wasn’t long ago that the Khan Academy was). My colleague Nick Anderson reported about the emergence of the MOOCs movement as a disruptive force in higher education. But there are reasons to think MOOCs are being hyped, and below, former schools superintendent Larry Cuban explains why. Cuban is a former high school social studies teacher (14 years, including seven at Cardozo and Roosevelt high schools in the District), district superintendent (seven years in Arlington, VA) and professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, where he has taught for more than 20 years. His latest book is “As Good As It Gets: What School Reform Brought to Austin.” This appeared on his blog.
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Thoughts on education by Grant Wiggins
There are endless articles, blogs, essays on the difference between good and bad teachers. All the frameworks for teacher evaluation highlight the shades of difference. But to my eye there are far too few adequate analyses of the difference between good and great teachers.
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Articles about how free online courses, or MOOCs, could disrupt higher education dominated the headlines last year here at the Wired Campus blog, and they were the most popular with readers as well. Several articles about e-textbooks also topped our list of most-read articles of 2012, highlighting what has been a time of change, and anxiety, for colleges and universities.