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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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Demystifying the Cloud for Policymakers
Adopters of cloud technologies recognize that it requires business decisions, risk management, and policy choices. At the Annual State of the Net Conference, EDUCAUSE Policy attempted to demystify the cloud for policy makers.
Sourcing IT (business decision)
Before we arrive at the conclusion that the best course of action is to outsource IT services to the cloud, we have to start with a more fundamental range of...
What You Read in 2012
What was big in 2012? Clearly analytics, massive open online courses (MOOCs), and open education all spent some time in the spotlight this past year. Other areas of interest to our readers included library-related topics and new business models for higher education. Listed below are the ten most widely read EDUCAUSE Review and EDUCAUSE Review Online articles, as well as the three most watched videos and the top-three ERO podcasts from 2012.
The editors of EDUCAUSE...
Why MOOCs are like Farmville
Another day, another report from one of the thought leaders on higher education. This time it is from Moody’s, which proclaims the death of the traditional model of higher education. While the concerns raised by Moody’s are real – diminished resources due to state budget cuts, declining family incomes, and...
Hallmarks of the Breakthrough Models, #1: Modular Courses
Editor’s Note: This post is the first 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://nextgenlearning.org/blog.
NGLC...
My Report Card for 2012
A year ago, I set out my resolutions for 2012. Here’s my report card.
What I said I would do: Write more. Use both blogging and twitter as a part of my overall leadership and communication strategy for the IT organization I lead at the University of Georgia.
What actually happened: My performance was inconsistent; sometimes I would write a new blog each week and tweet daily, but in some months – not much happened at all....
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