I know +Laura Gibbs wil love this (so will +Phil Hill )
Assistance for vacation properties is all but unheard-of in higher education, but New York University has given it to a number of executives and faculty members.
I was such a fan of Michael Wesch during the "Machine is Using Us" days and his original digital ethnography studies. He just posted this- not what I usually post, but wow. and wow. He's a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State.
I'm not the first one to jump at gamification, but TeachThought makes some good points. It is funny how so many other transformative technologies seemed to go to the back burner since the PR MOOC machine. Now we are back to talking about games for learning and mobile - a good sign, I think.
Even Wired Academic doesn't get the difference between online learning and MOOCs +Lisa M Lane . +Laura Gibbs +Phil Hill +Jesse Stommel per our conversation yesterday +Justin Schwamm etc. I do agree with the point they make here - I don't see the majority of the Gen Y people I know loving online education, although +George Station tells us some students stay on campus and take courses online, so maybe it's just the people I know. I've heard that's the case with Florida Universities as well.
Summary: Online learning startup creativeLIVE is breaking in its new San Francisco studios with a special broadcast featuring several big names from Silicon Valley.
It's worth reading the whole thing - How To Make Sure Professional Development is Not An Oxymoron....
Let’s face it, most people do not look forward to Professional Development (PD) Days in their school district due to the fact that most of these are created with someone else deciding what is most important for the learners.
“Pedagogy is unfazed by numbers; it is never outweighed by scale. Good pedagogy can be enacted in a room with one or two students, or in an online environment with thousands. This is because pedagogy is responsive, able to grow to the space it must inhabit, and its goal is a shift in thinking, which is spreadable by a single learner or by ten or tens of hundreds.” From Hybrid Pedagogy. Posting for discussion – because it’s a good academic argument but makes many assumptions. It is rare I find something on this fantastic site I don’t agree with, but since I think instructor presence is the first and most important component in any online course, and there are certain learners that need more attention from that presence than others, there seem to be many assumptions (implicit) made here. That the learners are all very self-directed, that they will support each other in a peer to peer environment, that they are ready (re: self directed learning scale) to learn, etc. What does the gang think? +Laura Gibbs +Larry press +George Station +Claudia W. Scholz +Jesse Stommel Up for some academic discourse? George, you still on vacation?
DONNA MURDOCH
"Are you giving enough blended learning to your child?" Ask my daughter! Blogging for +Learnhive Education
By Jenna Murdoch,
Most of the parents feel that in spite of sending their child to tuition and school, the classroom learning has not made much of an impact on the child. The reason could be that
Technology and emotional attachment. I've felt the same way.
Lots of great conversation this morning and I don't have time to participate (I'll be back soon!) but this is a must see. Got to love the +Jesse Stommel gang - I am still laughing! Every MOOC Needs a Trailer +Laura Gibbs +Phil Hill +Matthew McGuire +George Station as of right now, there's not much better than what they create :)