There’s a new kid on the block that is changing how learning is designed, delivered and experienced. Called a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), it is making a big splash, with the potential to reshape education for learners, teachers and educational administrators alike. These days, MOOCs are where it’s at. Mix together, an educational offering […]
Óscar Becerra has just written The One Laptop Per Child Correlation With Massive Open Online Courses where he compares the OLPC project with MOOC initiatives. In a nutshell, the Becerra argues that MOOC should not be compared to other higher education initiatives or institutions, but to what MOOCs can bring to “non-users” of education, as […]
A recent article by The New York Times describes a software application that will grade student essays using artificial intelligence to ease professors’ workload when working with large quantities of students like the ones registered for MOOCs. The article generated many comments; most of them can be classified under two categories. First are the ones […]
MOOCs – massively open online courses – are the latest hit in educational technologies. MIT and Harvard have partnered on EdX, and Stanford computer-science professors have kicked off Coursera and Udacity. Meanwhile, Bill Gates and others fawn over the Khan Academy. University of Virginia president, Teresa Sullivan, was even temporarily ousted because she was not […]
During my life I have always been interested in how ICTs can contribute to a better and sustainable development of the world. Education is one of the areas where that contribution can really make a difference. MOOCs (massive open online courses) might be one of the most versatile ways to offer access to quality education, […]
Stanford, Harvard, MIT, and many more top name universities are launching Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to hundreds, and hundred of thousands of students. Often prompted by entrepreneurial professors and private companies, the race is on to open up higher education to the online masses. Yet university professors are already entering into a schizophrenic relationship […]
UNESCO believes that mobile technologies can expand and enrich educational opportunities for learners in diverse settings. Yet most ICT in education policies were articulated in a ‘pre-mobile’ era and they do not seek to maximize the learning potentials of mobile technology. The rare policies that do reference mobile devices tend to treat them tangentially or […]
Hello, I’m Roxana Bassi and I’m now a co-editor at Educational Technology Debate. A bit about me Almost 30 years ago I connected to the prequel to the Internet, the BBSs, with a 300 bps modem and never disconnected. I grew up in Argentina, but have worked in four continents, the last six years mostly […]
Hello, I’m Shabnam Aggarwal and I’m now a co-editor at Educational Technology Debate. A bit about me Over the past few years, I’ve honed in on a niche market that I’m relatively obsessed with: disrupting education in classrooms over mobile devices. I’ve worked on a couple of different companies to this end, in India and […]
Thanks for making 2012 an amazing year for the Educational Technology Debate. We had great conversations every month with the following four posts leading all others in readership: Unesco’s Working Papers on Mobile Learning The results from IDB’s Randomized Control Trial in Peru A close look at Educational Management Information Systems International Council for Open […]
