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A central concern with MOOCs and other student directed learning experiences is that by decentering the traditional gatekeeping role of teachers, such experiences lack an authoritative center for determining the rigor and depth of a course as well judging the mastery of learning outcomes by students. In a traditional one-to-many style of pedagogy, teachers simultaneously perform the roles of content creator, disseminator, and arbitrator of student success. The basis for academic rigor is based on structures such as the credit hour – students meet for three hours a week, complete three hours of homework between meetings, and repeat this cycle for 15 weeks.

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The Future is Bright: Reflections on Innovations 2013

 

More than 3,600 administrators and faculty from the nation’s most creative community colleges came together in Dallas March 10 to 13 for the 15th annual Innovations Conference of the League for Innovation in the Community College, and more than a few of them heard something about next generation learning while in attendance. NGLC staff were at the front of the room for two of the sessions and in the audience for many others, watching eyes light up. If enthusiasm...

HEEMAC 2013 Conference Sessions from Daphne Hunt

Daphne J. Hunt, University Web Administrator in the Office of Web Services at Tarleton University, recently shared an article she wrote summarizing a few of what she considers the best sessions of HEEMAC 2013. Thank you to Daphne for sharing her thoughts with those of us who did not attend this conference. Those who have done something similar for various conferences they attended have helped build a wonderful (but definitely distributed...

What I Learned in Jail

By David Underwood

"Are we going to do collage?" asked a large man in a blue jumpsuit and day-glo orange tennis shoes.

"No, I don't think we'll be doing any collage, at least not for now, Bob. Sorry."

It was the first day of my first class at the local county jail. I'd signed on as a...

Kicking Up Dust in Austin at SXSWedu

By, Van L. Davis, Ph.D., Director of Special Projects, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board

This week, NGLC headed off to SXSWedu in sunny Austin, Texas. Only in its third year, this conference has grown to 6,000 attendees from 30 countries and draws an exciting mix of instructional designers, faculty, policymakers, funders, and educational technology entrepreneurs. Keynote speakers this year included Asenath Andrews (principal of Catherine Ferguson Academy, an...

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