Harvard will offer exclusive MOOCs to alumni
Harvard University plans to make some MOOC materials available exclusively to alumni in an effort to help Harvard graduates reconnect with the university and one another.
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Proceedings of the European MOOC stakeholder summit 2014
The second MOOC European Stakeholders Summit recently published a 293-page collection of articles on MOOC research and pedagogy.
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Free online university receives accreditation
The University of the People, a tuition-free, four-year-old online institution built to reach underserved students around the world, announced on February 13, 2014, that it had received accreditation.
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San Jose State U. adopts new policy for online and hybrid courses
San Jose State University has adopted a new policy on how “technology-intensive, hybrid, and online courses” may be created and run on its campus.
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Pearson offers a badge platform
Pearson recently announced that it would offer a proprietary badge platform based on Mozilla’s open standard for badges that recognize educational or professional achievement.
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Teaching to learn, learning to teach: Using digital media to teach science
Garry Hoban, an associate professor of science education and teacher education at the University of Wollongong, recently presented at a UBC Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology seminar about his research which targets new ways for science and science education students to explain content by creating different forms of digital media.
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Assessment on the web
Peer 2 Peer University, as part of a series on online assessment, examines design principles and showcases web platforms and learning networks that do online assessment well.
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Let’s scramble, not flip, the classroom
Pamela Barnett, an associate vice provost and director of the Teaching and Learning Center at Temple University, argues that instead of a flipped classroom model that creates a "simple inversion that places all lecture online and all active learning in class," that students will be better served by a scramble or mix of direct instruction and practice and feedback.
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NMC 2014 horizon report
The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative recently released the 2014 Horizon Report, an annual report on current trends in technology in higher education.
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Stanford economist: Elite colleges should not give credit for MOOCs
Caroline M. Hoxby, an economist at Stanford University, has published a white paper arguing that if elite universities give credit to students who pass their MOOCs, those institutions "could undermine their ability to invest in promising students."
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