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Randy Pausch's Boldest Innovation
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 'Sage on the Stage' and the End of the Classroom Lecture
Recent Reading by the EDUCAUSE Editors
The EDUCAUSE editors pulled together some recent publications we found interesting or entertaining. Let us know what you think, and please do share your own recommendations.
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Advancing the Next Generation of Learning through Evidence: What We Learned at ELI 2013
Editor's Note: This post originally appeared on the NGLC blog at nextgenlearning.org.
Several conversations, sessions, and keynote speakers at this year’s annual meeting of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, ELI2013, focused on
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Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models, #4: Competency Approaches
Editor’s Note: This post is the last in a series from Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). Each post highlights a distinguishing design characteristic of NGLC’s recently funded Breakthrough Postsecondary Models, as described in their profiles. This post originally appeared on the NGLC blog at http...
ED CPO on Privacy, Emerging Technologies, and New Uses of Data
When I first accepted the position as ED’s Chief Privacy Officer the workload revolved heavily around privacy issues in the K-12 context, especially issues relating the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act (FERPA) and its applicability to State Longitudinal Databases. Recently our office is spending an increasing amount of time providing guidance in the higher ed arena. Colleges, universities, and other postsecondary institutions often have research agendas that involve data; they...
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