The Future of the Educational Marketplace
I was reading Stephen Downes‘ article on the Future of Online Learning, and ran into a paragraph that hit home more than the rest, about the marketplace for course content. Today, much of the value...
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Coursera announced this week the addition of a Career Services department for students in the organization. According to the website, students who opt-in for the program will submit a resume and other...
View ArticleCould this be a new purpose/goal within K-12, higher ed, and the training...
From DSC: First, what prompted the questions and reflections that are listed below? For that, I turn to some recent items that I ran across involving the use of robotics and whether that may or may...
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Another example of the conversation moving away from traditional higher ed
From DSC: While I think MOOCs have a ways to go, I continue to support them because they are forcing higher ed to innovate and experiment more. But the conversation continues to move away from...
View ArticleThe Graduation Thesis: Insufficient and Outmoded
This the title of a recent article I wrote for my university research journal (Gakuen). In it, I advocate for subsuming the Graduation Thesis, common here in Japan among undergraduates, among a...
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