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"This wasn’t the early goal of MOOCs. Modern MOOCs focus on expanding access to high-quality content, while ignoring the relationship side of the equation. The first MOOCs, however, aimed to make online learning mimic the way people actually learn and solve problems, via collaboration and social interaction. Content is still important but plays a supporting role to the interactions, conversations, and engagement aspects of the experience. We would pose that today, context is king."

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/context-is-king-moocs-corporate-needs/

#MOOCs #learner engagement #social interaction #online learning #elearning #higher education

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News... at its best?

The Huffington Post wrote an article about the best/worst education trends in 2014, and as I was reading through the article I noticed this comment and felt I needed to explain percentages to journalists.

"...the College Board published a report indicating that average tuition and fees increased by 2.9 percent over the last two school years. Though that jump is lower than in the past five, 10 or 30 years, colleges still have a long way to go before everyone has access to higher ed."

Now let's look at percentages...

If tuition cost $1.00 and raised 10% (say 30 years ago), then the cost would be $1.10, a $0.10 increase. But if tuition cost $10.00 (today) and raised 2.9%, that would cost $10.29, a $0.29 increase.

Even with lower percentage rates, the amount of tuition increase is higher. That is why the percentage "jump" is lower than the past five, 10, or 30 years. It doesn't take much of a percentage of the whole to fill the gap that schools demand in their tuition. This is the effect of raising rates and cost, not the government or institutions playing nice on the consumers.

#rant #education #cost of education #percentages #math

Bright creative people who see that their role in life as finding a better way to do something, discovering the best way to help someone learn, or revealing a fundamentally new truth tend to reject imposed structures or altered structures if they did not participate in the alteration.

Poley, J. K. (2001). Leadership. New Directions For Higher Education. Fall, no. 115. © John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

#Creative people #leadership #higher education

Recognition for a job well done! That's the best compliment!

#recognition #hardwork #goodwork #flawlessvictory

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Student engagement is about getting kids to pay attention. Student buy-in is about getting kids to take ownership.

http://ajjuliani.com/epic-learning/

#student engagement #student buy-in #epic learning #ownership #attention #motivation

Psychological Engagement

"By psychological engagement, we mean cognitive processing of content in ways that lead to acquisition of new knowledge and skills. Some cognitive processes that lead to learning include paying attention to the relevant material, mentally organizing it into a coherent representation, and integrating it with relevant prior knowledge. Some examples of activities in e-learning intended to prime psychological engagement include self-explaining a complex visual, summarizing a portion of a lesson, generating an outline or drawing based on the lesson, or taking a practice test." (p. 17)

Clark, Ruth C.; Mayer, Richard E.. E-Learning and the Science of Instruction : Proven Guidelines for Consumers and Designers of Multimedia Learning (3rd Edition). Hoboken, NJ, USA: Pfeiffer, 2011. ebrary collections. 17 Jun. 2014 <http://site.ebrary.com/lib/jmulibrary/Doc?id=10488509&ppg=37> Copyright © 2011. Pfeiffer. All rights reserved.

#psychological engagement #e-learning #elearning #online learning #cognitive processes #acquisition #instruction #instructional design

Some instructional design experts claim that their methodology guarantees successful learning. They lie. We cannot guarantee any outcome involving more than a few human beings. People are simply too unpredictable, and outside factors intrude.

E-Learning by Design, 2nd Edition, by William Horton

#eLearning #instructional design #methodology #William Horton #educational technology

Continuing with Sweller's Cognitive Load theory

... many researchers find gamification and social media to be full of “pyrotechnics” (Rieber, 1994) and “eye candy” (Clark and Lyons (2004).

These terms refer to the use of extraneous and perhaps distracting design features just because it’s possible. However, this type of approach can just as easily contribute to extraneous cognitive load.

Excerpt from Chapter 10 of Streamlined ID: A Practical Guide to Instructional Design by Miriam Larson and Barbara B. Lockee.

You can read more about the book's referenced materials online.

#John Sweller #Instructional Design #gamification #social media #media design #cognitive load

Spatial Contiguity Principle

Placing descriptive text for a visual, close to the visual element it describes rather than far away, to facilitate learning.

Image taken from The Encyclopedia of Educational Technology (EET), which is a publication of the San Diego State University's Department of Educational Technology.

#digital media #educational technology #spatial contiguity principle #instructional media #John Sweller #Cognitive Load Theory #definition #today i learned

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Andragogy

"The learning strategies, instructional frameworks, and theory related to teaching the adult learner (as opposed to “pedagogy,” the teaching of children), which was developed and popularized by Malcolm Knowles" (Simonson, Smaldino, Albright, & Zvacek, 2009).

A Definition of a term I didn't realize existed. And I had also never heard "pedagogy" referred to as a teaching of children. Interesting to note, when developing learning activities structured around certain ages.

#definition #education #andragogy #pedagogy #today i learned #Malcolm Knowles

Asynchronous Learning

"Learning experiences for which there is a delay between the sending and receiving of instructional messages, communications, and feedback. Asynchronous learning is typically electronically mediated." (Lewis & Whitlock, 2003)

This week seems to be all about definitions! If you are interested in a term that isn't posted here, send me a note and I'll be glad to find you a research reference and post a quote about the term!

#definition #education #asychronous #learning #instructional design #today i learned

Hi! What's the schooling system like at Bath & Spa University in terms of classes and such? :)

Hey there, thank you for the question!

I actually do not know yet. I have not been a student of Bath Spa University. I do know some friends from the UK who live in the U.S. and were enrolled in Bath University (a different school than Bath Spa University... but both are found in the same town!), and they said the schools and town were great. Friendly people, nice campus, and passionate educators.

Ask me again in a month, and I'll be able to tell you more about the policies, classes, and educators (since that's what my internship will deal with).

Lack of Interaction in MOOCs

MOOCs and online learning are special types of courses. They afford many positive outcomes for learners who would otherwise not be capable of attending traditional classes. And while the average telepresence or video conferencing tool is useful for eliciting communication. The usual text chats that accompany these tools are mostly ineffective. In this learning context (online/virtual), the participants need to engage in real-time, to allow for the most concise communication between peers and instructor. When text chats come into play, the conversation is usually digested asynchronously by each individual in different order. Idea about text chats and the lack of interaction was taken from a reading of Streamlined ID: A Practical Guide to Instructional Design by Miriam Larson and Barbara B. Lockee

#moocs #online learning #text chat #telepresence #virtual classroom #interactions #communication #instructional design

In some cases (particularly with Connectivist applications), you can leverage learner-created content and thus lower your production time and costs.

from Streamlined ID: A Practical Guide to Instructional Design by Miriam Larson and Barbara B. Lockee

#connectivist #learner #moocs #production costs #education #learner creations #user created #user content

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The Digital Essay

I am consulting with Bath Spa University this summer (virtually) and while perusing their website to get to know the clients and students better, I found this gem of a workshop. Too bad it's face to face! I would have enjoyed hearing more about this evolution of the essay in academia. If you are in Bath, England around this time, I suggest going to this. Digital essays are the next step for colleges and universities. Half of my graduate level papers have been written and presented as digital essays. ---- Old Wine in a New Bottle: The Digital Essay, Thurs 19 Jun, 1:00-2:00pm, Michael Tippett Centre G.22, Newton Park, Presenter: Jeffrey Boehm The digital essay is a multimedia approach to essay writing. The primary content is still the written word, but it is spiced up with other media. We will cover ways to create and mark the digital essay. www.Bathspa.ac.uk

#digital essay #bathspa #higher education #term paper #essay writing

"Public school systems are often structured as functional teams, with each subject on its own vertical in the system. This framework has been highly successful in terms of creating autonomous departments that are open to accepting small changes each semester."

Click through above, to read my full analysis of Chapter 9 in Clayton Christensen's book, Disrupting Class. I also reference Quest to Learn, Marc Prensky, and James Paul Gee as some of the most influential games-based learning experimenters and researchers.

#clayton christensen #disrupting class #k-12 #k-12 education #quest to learn #marc prensky #james paul gee #games-based learning #alternative schools

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