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Massive Open Online Courses

Learn Experientially and Connect Globally with MOOCs

Randy Fisher

Posted on April 18th, 2013

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 […]

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The Importance of Context and Human Factor in MOOC Education

Ismael Peña-López

Posted on April 16th, 2013

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 […]

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The One Laptop Per Child Correlation With Massive Open Online Courses

Oscar Becerra

Posted on April 11th, 2013

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 […]

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MOOCs Will Come and Mostly Go Like Other EduTech Fads

Kentaro Toyama

Posted on April 8th, 2013

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 […]

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3 Ways MOOCs Unleash the Power of Massive International Attendance

Roxana Bassi

Posted on April 4th, 2013

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, […]

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Are Massive Open Online Courses Massive Opportunity or Massive Hype?

Wayan Vota

Posted on April 2nd, 2013

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 […]

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Mobile Learning Policy

UNESCO Policy Guidelines for Mobile Learning

UNESCO

Posted on March 28th, 2013

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 […]

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2013 ICT4Edu Trends

Latin America Is Fertile With EduTech Experimentation

Roxana Bassi

Posted on March 21st, 2013

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 […]

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2013 ICT4Edu Trends

India is Where You Can Make an Impact on Education Using Technology

Shabnam Aggarwal

Posted on March 12th, 2013

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 […]

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2013 ICT4Edu Trends

Call for Topics: Educational Technology Debate in 2013

Wayan Vota

Posted on March 5th, 2013

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 […]

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