Sep 292012
 

By Dr. Brian C. Mitchell at HuffingtonPost.com…

There has been substantial discussion in the past few years about how technology is beginning to move beyond older concepts of distance learning and technology-assisted education to new arrangements like Coursera and the MOOC innovations and experimentations at institutions like Harvard and MIT. These approaches bear watching. Collectively, they signal that the delivery methods, learning approaches and increasingly global scale of products produced from new thinking are likely to reshape 21st century education in ways not yet

via Dr. Brian C. Mitchell: The Other Side to Technology in Higher Education.

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Sep 072012
 

By Kayla Webley at Time.com…

MOOC may be a silly-sounding acronym, but this new breed of online classes is shaking up the higher education world in ways that could be good for cash-strapped students and terrible for cash-strapped colleges. Taking a class online might not sound revolutionary—after all, in the fall of 2010, 6.1 million students were enrolled in at least one online course

via MOOC Brigade: Will Massive, Open Online Courses Revolutionize Higher Education? | TIME.com.

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