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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. IN late September, as workers applied joint compound to new office walls, hoodie-clad colleagues who had just met were working together on deadline. Film editors, code-writing interns and “edX fellows” — grad students and postdocs versed in online education — were translating videotaped lectures into MOOCs, or massive open online courses. As if anyone needed reminding, a row of aqua Post-its gave the dates the courses would “go live.” The MOOCs are also generating a massive amount of MOOC Resources: http://www.worldofwebcast.com/post/massive-list-of-mooc-resources-lit-and-literati Creative Commons says MOOCs should be kept "Open" in a couple of senses: The original MOOCs…were “open” in two respects. First, they were open enrollment to students outside the hosting university. That is open as in “open registration.” Second, the materials of the course were licensed using Creative Commons licenses so their materials could be remixed and reused by others. That is open as in “open license.” Continue reading at: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/34852 Also there are some experiences puzzled togehter in The Guardian: Learning for free online Distance learning is increasingly popular and one of the reasons is the growing number of free courses being offered online Continue reading here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/oct/23/free-online-distance-learning?INTCMP=SRCH The MIT Technology Review says: MOOCs are The Most Important Education Technology in 200 Years Students anywhere are being offered free instruction online. What will that do to the trillion-dollar education business? http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506351/the-most-important-education-technology-in-200-years/
Se está sintiendo cada vez más la experiencia de personas que están participando en cursos en línea masivos y abiertos (Massive open online course).
Esta modalidad de cursos se basa en la teoría del conectivismo planteada por George Siemens
y otros. Hay opiniones para todos los gustos; entre las más constructivas, las alumnos que han encontrado por fin en los MOOC la formación que buscaban http://jvichosoto.visibli.com/share/AVWteQ
Via Juan Jesús Baño Egea, Cíntia Rabello
Ensayo de Juan Domingo Farnós sobre Rizomas, MOOCs y evaluación de la docencia. Curioso concepto de HEUTATOGY (aprender a aprender) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In education, heutagogy, a concept coined by Stewart Hase of Southern Cross University and Chris Kenyon in Australia, is the study of self-determined learning. The notion is an expansion and reinterpretation of andragogy, and it is possible to mistake it for the same. However, there are several differences between the two that mark one from the other.[1] Heutagogy places specific emphasis on learning how to learn, double loop learning, universal learning opportunities, a non-linear process, and true learner self-direction. So, for example, whereas andragogy focuses on the best ways for people to learn, heutagogy also requires that educational initiatives include the improvement of people's actual learning skills themselves, learning how to learn as well as just learning a given subject itself. Similarly, whereas andragogy focuses on structured education, in heutagogy all learning contexts, both formal and informal, are considered.[1]
Inventar aplicaciones para teléfonos móviles está casi al alcance de cualquiera. Google lanzó a finales de 2010 una plataforma para crearlas dentro de su sistema operativo, Android. Aquel programa, ‘App Inventor’, forma parte del curriculum del Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) y se convertirá en unas semanas en el primer curso gratuito que ofrece la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) a través de internet. El lanzamiento, fruto de varios meses de colaboración entre las dos instituciones, supone la creación de UnX, la nueva plataforma de cursos online de la universidad española, y permitirá al MIT dar el salto a la oferta de contenidos para España y América Latina.
There’s a whole new language being developed around the hottest trend in education: online learning. From MOOCs (like a cow would say it but with a hard K at the end) to OpenCourseWare to ‘21st century learning‘ … there’s a lot of new terms you should know about.
Un grupo de profesionales de la educación, la mayoría profesores y profesoras de universidad, reunidos en Sevilla los días 26 y 27 de octubre de 2012, preocupados por la situación del sistema educativo y alarmados por la evolución de la política educativa, con objeto de animar el debate y de generar un compromiso con la mejora declaramos:
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.
Via Joaquín Paredes
A comment by Jason Green on twitter got me thinking again about a different lens through which to see the MOOC. The book, and particularly the textbook, are at the core of many of our classrooms. There’s no denying that having the content for a course all tied up in a handy, portable, near unbreakable format is convenient. Proof of this can be found in the fact that the yearly slaying of trees, organizing of content, printing and ordering of books and queuing in the bookstore to purchase them are almost as strong today as it was 30 years ago. Surely some people (I’m looking at you Cable Green) have encouraged a move towards taking those books online, but many of those models replicate much of the ‘prepare, organize and buy’ models of the paper book industry while saving trees and avoiding fleecing the student. Those books are still, however, finite and finished.
One thing caught my eye while tooling around the Coursera web site: the advent of MOOC Meetup groups. Last I checked, more than 11,000 students had signed up for meet up groups in more than 1,100 cities worldwide!
Via Ana Cristina Pratas
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.
Amy McQuigge’s prompt How can colleges and universities use badges? is a lot more slope of enlightenment and a little less peak of inflated expectations when it comes to badges in higher ed (Looking at you, major media sources.)
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.
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The Rise of the MOOC: The Future of Higher Education? Higher education is a sector that has thus far embraced – but arguably has not been fundamentally altered by – the growth of the Internet. This has been rapidly changing over the last few years with the rise of MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses; a way of learning that lets students participate on their own terms via the Internet. MOOCs have been embraced in a big way by elite universities and institutions, and are beginning to have a major impact on higher education. But are MOOCs really delivering quality access to education, or are they creating huge issues for the education sector? ONLINE EDUCA BERLIN aims to explore the issue in detail. The MOOC prize is a very positive reason to contribute to the education of hte poorest. More on this topic: http://www.johnconnell.co.uk/blog/?p=3700
The LMS Instructure Enters the MOOC Fray by Audrey Watters on 31 Oct, 2012 Not content with being the young upstart in the LMS industry taking on the aging giants of Blackboard and Desire2Learn, Instructure has now decided to enter another market and take on some of the upstarts there, namely Coursera and edX. That is, tonight it launches the Canvas Network, which in the words of CEO Josh Coates, is “our answer to the whole MOOC hype.” It’s an answer that Instructure’s current clients have helped devise, too, Coates says, noting that many of the schools that run its LMS Canvas are pondering that hype and weighing whether they should join the Coursera or edX platform (or fear being left out of the MOOC race entirely). In many cases, these schools already offer online classes to their own students, but simply don’t have the reach — the marketing reach or the instructional reach — that the xMOOCs promise.
Cada vez es más el reconocimiento que se otorga a los cursos online (especialmente si son de calidad como los que ofrece Coursera). Ahora la Antioch University también ofrecera MOOCs (massive open online courses) reconocidos como parte de su programa de títulos universitarios. Antioch ofrecerá las máximas facilidades y soporte online para que los estudiantes aprueben los créditos con éxito, aportando material online de calidad y ofreciendo instructores que estarán pendientes de los alumnos.
Via Mauricio M. Escudero
Curso masivo abierto sobre Emprendimiento... UNIMOOC aemprende es un curso en línea que pretende dotar a sus alumnos de las claves y herramientas que pueden ser determinantes para el éxito en la creación de empresas en el contexto de la nueva economía, caracterizada por el uso de las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones.
Social media is a trendy topic at the moment, having received much mass media and consumer attention for its widespread adoption during the last decade. Social media has influenced practice in many communication-oriented fields, such as marketing, customer service, and journalism. In education, the hype surrounding social media has created a lot of speculation about how it might be used in a higher education environment. Perspectives range from believing higher education should capitalize on technologies and perhaps electronic devices that students are already using for personal reasons to struggling to see how to effectively integrate a technology whose naturalistic use has been so heavily informal and user-driven into a setting known for its more formal and structured experiences.
Via ramonovelar
Las mejores universidades se lanzan a ofrecer cursos sin coste en Internet.
Los llamados "massive open Online courses" han supuesto un salto cualitativo en el elearning. Abanderados por las mejores universidades americanas han abierto un nuevo debate: estamos al final de la concepción clásica de la universidad???
PASEN, vean, participen.... Son gratis
In recent weeks, there has been much energy and enthusiasm about both MITx and its multi-institutional counter part edX. Listening to the debate over how MITx can be integrated into the residential experience, I am impressed by how much thought all affected parties have invested. We as a community are at a crossroads. We have been presented with an opportunity to substantially change what it means to receive a college education. This possibility excites me, but for others it may seem slightly frightening. Many people are concerned about what we may lose in the process of integrating online education into our current system. While these concerns are certainly valid, I am still optimistic. Rather than focus on how MITx might harm, I focus on how it can transform. What follows is my vision of how this transformation might play out.
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.
Via LGA
Students should be able to move freely between institutions and get credit for work and experiences in the real world...
Via LGA
Un interesante artículo de Paul Wappett sobre EL FUTURO DE LA EDUCACIÓN, enfocado a cómo deben ser los cursos.
Modelos con conferencias on line del experto, de unos 10 minutos y que finalizan con una prueba corta.
Esto permitirá:
- asegurarse de qe los conceptos se van entendiendo
- personalizar el aprendizaje, el alumno accederá a aquello que necesite y podrá navegar libremente
- analíticas del aprendizaje
- atender diferentes estilos de aprender de diferentes alumnos
El reto será que los docentes investiguen y trabajen en diseñar contenidos de calidad.
Via Marta Torán, juandoming, Wilmer Ramírez
Nearly every nation in the world would like to bring in the best and brightest scholars to its schools (and hopefully tap into some of that genius in their economy), but not all have the resources or the facilities to do so. While the U.S. and Europe still dominate many of the lists of top universities, other nations, even some smaller ones, are working hard to provide some serious international competition, building massive education cities and cutting-edge universities that are designed to bring in students from all over the world. While some still have a long way to go, others are proving that top-tier higher education is going to be a far more global game in the coming decades. We highlight just a few of these cities and their impressive educational offerings in this list. Read more: http://edudemic.com/2012/08/10-up-and-coming-cities-that-are-disrupting-education/
Via Gust MEES
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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