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Category Archives: Online education
“Accredible:” a new online service to document mastery of a particular (online) course or skill
Typically, upon successful completion of a MOOC (massive open online course) through a provider such as Coursera, students are provided a certificate of accomplishment stating that the student has successfully completed the course. For example, here is my statement of … Continue reading
Teaching Robots #EDCMOOC
I have been working through a Coursera course called E-learning and Digital Cultures #EDCMOOC. This post represents the final digit artifact of my work for that course (or rather, “artefact,” as my Scotland-based instructors write). Among other things, the course … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Online education
Tagged #EDCMOOC, assembly line, coursera, Henry Ford, intrigue, math education, Ray Kurzweil, sugata mitra
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Some unexplored effects of MOOCs in the long-term
There is currently lots of thinking going on about the implications of MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)–courses that are free online and enroll tens of thousands of students at a time from all over the world: How will these affect … Continue reading
Annual Report
Overall, 2012 was a pretty good year! Here are some of the noteworthy things to report… Professional: I got a new job! City Year! I’m getting paid substantially less, but I am WAY less stressed out and I am actually … Continue reading
Effects of repeating content in future courses
I continue to be impressed with Coursera, a provider of free online courses from an ever expanding number of big-name universities. I am lightly participating in several courses (and I am signed up for dozens more over the next several … Continue reading
Posted in Math education, Online education, Personal Experiences
Tagged college, coursera, curriculum, math
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On “The trouble with online education”
The trouble with online education is that this particular critic of online education hasn’t really experienced the best of online education, yet: The trouble with online education Type A effects and Type B effects: when is learning online better? In … Continue reading
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