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Helping others with using simulations
Of late, I’ve been working with the Higher Education Academy once more, developing more resources for their excellent New to Teaching Toolkit site. This is intended to help those with less experience develop their own practice in a supported way. … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, and Simulations, Online Classes, Simon Usherwood
Tagged HEA, Resources
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Higher Ed’s Cost Disease
I recently read William G. Bowen’s The ‘Cost Disease’ in Higher Education: Is Technology the Answer? — a brief compilation of two lectures that he gave at Stanford in October 2012. For those of you who are unfamiliar with Bowen, … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Chad Raymond, Online Classes, Technology
Tagged Baumol, Bowen, Carnegie Mellon, cost disease, online, Stanford
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The Digital Natives Are Not Restless
Somewhat related to Simon’s post about the use of new social media: Hurricane Sandy unexpectedly provided me with experimental environment in which to test student use online communication platforms. I’m currently teaching online courses for our master’s degree program in international … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Online Classes, Problem solving, Technology
Tagged Canvas, hurricane, sandy, Statecraft
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Online Sources in Papers: Why Allow them?
Is there any good reason to allow our students to use online sources in their papers? I’m not talking about the online depositories for news articles, or using databases to find books, journals, and articles online, but the kinds of … Continue reading
Hybrid Pedagogy
Courtesy of an (online) acquaintance, I discovered a neat (again, online) open access journal called Hybrid Pedagogy: A Digital Journal of Teaching & Technology. The journal has a lot of interesting and useful information, such as Theorizing Google Docs: 10 Tips for … Continue reading
Posted in Chad Raymond, Information Literacy, Online Classes
Tagged discussion, Google Docs, hybrid, pedagogy
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Jumping On the MOOC Train
A brief update to what I’ve written recently (here and here) about the sweeping changes that massive open-source online courses (MOOCs) are bringing to higher education: Coursera has announced partnership agreements with twelve more universities, including Caltech, Johns Hopkins, the … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Chad Raymond, Online Classes, Problem solving
Tagged Caltech, Canada, Coursera, Illinois, Johns Hopkins, MOOC, Scotland, Seattle, Switzerland, Washington
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The eBay of Education
In my post on the end of the university as we know it, I outlined the financially unsustainable system of higher education in the USA and how organizations like edX (the soon-to-launch amalgamation of MITx and Harvardx), Coursera, and Udacity offer low- to no-cost education to … Continue reading
Posted in Academia, Assessment, Chad Raymond, Online Classes
Tagged Alison, Coursera, edX, Homer Simpson, Khan Academy, massive open online course, MITx, Udacity, Udemy
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Instructional Design: Online and Face-to-Face Are Not So Different
On Monday, two of my annual online courses start. I’m also in the midst of designing websites for blended (a.k.a. hybrid) and web-enhanced courses that will begin in the fall semester. Every year I see the firewall between the traditional … Continue reading
Posted in Assessment, Chad Raymond, Online Classes
Tagged online, Post-It Note, Rapid E-Learning, Tom Kuhlmann
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I’ll Have the Merlot Please
A brief mention of the Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching (MERLOT), which I stumbled upon while in a training workshop for teaching blended/hybrid courses: MERLOT is an immense searchable directory of learning materials that are available online for … Continue reading
Posted in and Simulations, Chad Raymond, Online Classes
Tagged Ayiti, Gamelab, Global Kids, Haiti, MERLOT, poverty, productivity shock, UNICEF
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