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Coursera and the higher education

Coursera and the uncertain future of higher education

Coursera is blurring the lines between itself and institutions. The implications for the future of college education are profound.

https://fortune-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/fortune.com/2021/10/25/coursera-uncertain-future-of-higher-education/amp/

The future of higher education is being led by a publicly traded company in California that is growing like gangbusters. Its online platform has a portfolio of thousands of courses from the world’s leading universities, corporations, and nonprofits.

Coursera, which since the spring has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange, is valued at 7 billion dollars and seems to be making all the right moves.

While college and university enrollments have been declining during the pandemic, Coursera’s enrollment rose from 53 million to 78 million students this spring—an increase greater than total U.S. higher education enrollment.

Coursera is only the tip of the iceberg of an explosion of non-collegiate higher education providers. They range from libraries and museums to media companies and software makers, not to mention a burgeoning number of online providers just like Coursera. Microsoft and Google are both offering more than 75 certificate programs.

As our society becomes more fragmented and divided, we have reason to worry that higher education’s transformation will further fragment us. 

Equally important, we need to reintroduce a common curriculum to strengthen social bonds. General education should focus on the shared human experience—linking our past with our present and future, our heritage with the realities that will confront us today and tomorrow.

In the new Coursera world that will be increasingly corporatized, we need to ensure that we don’t lose our core values, our ethics, and our ability to tell fact from fiction.

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more on Coursera in this blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=coursera

Обърната Класна Стая

Иновационни стратегии и подходи за подобряване на  педагогическите процеси в училищната организация
Същност и особености на образователните иновации

  • Основни направления на иновационна дейност в образованието
  • Модели за осъществяване на иновационния процес в училище – МОДЕЛИ НА ХИБРИДНО ОБУЧЕНИЕ
  • Обърната класна стая като разновидност на ротационния модел

o   Дефиниция

o   Организация

–       планиране и внедряване

–       оценяване – формативно, обобщаващо

–       процесът на създаване на видео

–       участници и тяхната подготовка

–       отстраняване на проблеми

o   Внедряване -от ОКС към обърнато обучение

  • Въпроси, идеи, пректи, решения

за контакти:
Галин Цоков <gal.tzokov@gmail.com>

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  • Какво знаете за ОКС?

Интернет търсене: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%D0%9E%D0%B1%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0+%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%8F&atb=v1-1&ia=web

  • Какво според вас треява да знаем за ОКС?
    Какво според вас трябеа да разберем още за ОКС?

    • Дефиниция
    • Оргаянизация
      • планиране и внедряване
      • оценяване
        • формативно
        • обобщаващо
      • процесът на създаване на видео
      • участници и тяхната подготовка
      • отстраняване на проблеми
    • Понтатъшно внедряване
    • Въпроси, идеи, пректи, решения

за контакти:
Пламен Мклтенов: pmiltenoff@stcloudstate.edu,
http://web.stcloudstate.edu/pmiltenoff/faculty/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/miltenoff/

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повече материали в класа на ППС Управление на иновациите в образователната система: Class code d53kkz3
https://classroom.google.com/u/0/c/MzE1OTUzNTAzODk1/m/MzI1Mzc1ODczMDgz/details

Instructional approaches

A Beginner’s Guide to Flipped Classroom

https://www.schoology.com/blog/flipped-classroom

Our 2018-2019 Global State of Digital Learning research study revealed some interesting insights about instructional approaches. It was taken by 9,279 education professionals from all across the country in various roles and districts.

When we look at instructional approaches most frequently used, the top ones are differentiated instruction (73.5%), blended learning (54.8%), and individualized learning (47.8%). And while flipped learning, personalized learning, and gamification command the most press, they aren’t being practiced as much as one might think. In many ways, this makes a lot of sense. These approaches require more time and resources than many of the others.

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microcredentials Australia

Stacks on: Get the max from micro-credentials

https://www.smh.com.au/business/workplace/shift-to-short-courses-and-online-learning-to-expand-careers-20210322-p57cvl.html

“This measure will provide additional options for students and the recently unemployed to engage with higher education across a wider range of fields, which will help further the position of the nation and our workforce to move out of the economic downturn,” a department spokesman said.

“There is some crossover between the terms ‘micro-credential’ and ‘short course’; both are generally something shorter than a full qualification. The short courses are a type of micro-credential. The short course is a credit-bearing micro-credential, meaning that it can be used to ‘stack’ into a full qualification at a later time.”

” The Australian Cyber Security Growth Network said the cyber security workforce had grown by 4000 to 26,500 since 2017. The sector grew by 6 per cent a year, compared with overall national growth of 2 per cent a year.”

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more on microcredentials in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=microcredential

Engageli

Zoom-alternative Engageli raises $33M to grow its digital learning platform

https://www.highereddive.com/news/zoom-alternative-engageli-raises-33m-to-grow-its-digital-learning-platform/599901/

Rather than create plug-ins for Zoom or similar services, however, Engageli’s founders created a standalone platform that combines video with active-learning features such as quizzes and small-group breakouts. Instructors can also track engagement.

Class, formerly named ClassEDU, last year began testing add-on software for Zoom that allows instructors to administer assignments and track student engagement.

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more on Zoom in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=zoom

Dos & Don’ts Teaching With Technology

7 Dos & Don’ts for Post-Pandemic Teaching With Technology

Here’s what students hope you’ll keep doing in the fall — and what they hope you’ll drop.

https://www.chronicle.com/article/7-dos-donts-for-post-pandemic-teaching-with-technology

February panel of students sharing their views on pandemic teaching….

  • DON’T lecture with slides for an entire Zoom class.
  • DO offer more active-learning and discussion exercises in class. 
  • DON’T require students to use a tech tool that you don’t understand. 
  • DO keep using anonymous polling.
  • DO get students up and about.
  • DO provide more asynchronous materials and activities.
  • DO emphasize interaction with and between students.

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more on online learning in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=online+learning

gamification and online teaching

Study: Gamification Techniques Can Improve Online Teaching

https://campustechnology.com/articles/2021/04/12/study-gamification-techniques-can-improve-online-teaching.aspx

A new study out of MIT‘s Sloan School of Management explores the use of ideas and tools from the gaming community to improve online teaching and student learning outcomes.

four key elements for maximizing student engagement in online learning:

  • Narrative — a specific storyline or overarching theme. For instance, study co-author Brian Stevens, senior lecturer at the University of Tennessee‘s Haslam College of Business, created a video game theme for his statistics class, incorporating “Boss Battles,” “Speed Runs” and wacky characters to spice up his lectures.
  • Continuous flow of action in sight and sound, even before class starts. For example, Lo uses a countdown timer and upbeat music on his course page about 30 minutes before the start of a synchronous lecture, to build anticipation for class. He also switches tasks and/or scenes every 15 minutes to help maintain students’ attention and interest levels.
  • Opportunities for two-way communication. To help turn students from viewers into participants, Lo uses a combination of the “Raise Hand” function in Zoom, polls, breakout sessions, surveys and the chat window.
  • High production quality. Lo built a home studio with various input devices, professional lighting, a green screen and more to create richer, more engaging presentations for students.

The full study, “The World of EdCraft: Challenges and Opportunities in Synchronous Online Teaching,” is openly available online

serious gamers and gamification experts on that panel. More here on the initiative: https://tinyurl.com/IABOL2021

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more on gamification in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=gamification

Terrible Internet speed?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/got-terrible-internet-speeds-the-fcc-wants-to-hear-about-it

The FCC is accepting data via an online form, where you can presumably talk about anything, whether it be slow speeds, lack of providers, data caps, or high costs. The FCC is asking you to describe the problem in three to five sentences, and provide your name, the state where you live, ZIP code, phone number, and any attachments you’d like to include.

The FCC has currently been using its own broadband maps

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more on net neutrality in this IMS blog
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims?s=netneutrality

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