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Younger students are continuing to see The Open University (OU) as an alternative to traditional university. Figures announced this week show course reservations for 2011/12 made by new students aged 25 and under increased by 18% compared to last year. SOURCE: The Open UniversityRead the Full Article
homas Edison knew something about ideas. The holder of more than 1,000 patents, he developed many of his ideas into inventions, bringing him to conclude that “the value of an idea lies in the using of it.”SOURCE: The University of Connecticut Read the Full Article
SAN FRANCISCO — Computers, like humans, can learn. But when Google tries to fill in your search box based only on a few keystrokes, or your iPhone predicts words as you type a text message, it’s only a narrow mimicry of what the human brain is capable.SOURCE: The Washington Post Read the Full Article
Stanford Engineering professors are setting out to add a new level of interactivity to online education by offering three of the university’s most popular computer science classes for free.SOURCE: Stanford University Read the Full Article
The MIT Media Lab today announced the creation of the MIT Center for Mobile Learning, dedicated to transforming education and learning through innovation in mobile computing. The Center’s formation is seeded by a gift from Google.SOURCE: MITRead the Full Press Rlease
This article covers the definition of a design case as a specialized and critical form of design knowledge, including discussion of similar types of scholarship that are not design cases and the characteristic ways in which design cases are used. Arguments for developing rigorous design cases are presented.SOURCE: International Journal of Designs for LearningRead the […]
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Students who spend a lot of time watching television and movies might risk lower grades. At Cornell University, they might risk higher bills.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article
PALO ALTO, Calif. — A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more than 58,000 students around the globe — a class nearly four times the size of Stanford’s entire student body. SOURCE: The New York TimesRead the Full […]
Abstract: “ePerformance: Crafting, Rehearsing, and Presenting the ePortfolio Persona” exposes vital intersections between pedagogy and performance to reveal how using ePortfolio encourages not only student-centered learning, but facilitates collaboration through cooperative exchanges. Productive interactivity with audiences who actively influence process, content, and outcomes displaces classroom hierarchies and the passive absorption of predetermined material. It is […]