To stay in the game universities need to work with tech companies
For many universities, working with private edtech companies could be the only way of keeping pace with the changing world of education.
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When I grow up, I want to be a researcher…
How do we and should we work with the first generation "digital native" doctoral researchers?
Why data-driven science is more than just a buzzword
Science today is increasingly data-driven, but our education system has not caught up.
Interview: Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder and inventor of the home computer
David Glance sits down with Apple co-founder and inventor of the Apple 1 computer, Steve Wozniak, to talk about his life, his thoughts on Apple then and now and how technology is changing the world.
How online courses can bring the world into Africa’s classrooms
MOOCs are an opportunity for African universities to bring the continent's thinkers and theories to the world. They also have great benefits for full-time students to experience a flipped classroom.
Confessions of a MOOC professor: three things I learned and two things I worry about
A scholar who has taught 250,000 students worldwide through the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) reflects on the changes that these courses are bringing. Should all those in higher ed be worried?
‘Powerpoint was not his thing’: a poem on teaching and technology
A professor of literature who is also a poet tackles the issue of the inroads technology has made in the relationship between teacher and learner.
An innovative form of cheating emerges in MOOCs
Students are creating 'multiple personalities' to cheat on MOOCs. How do they do that? What are its implications?
Far from bust: five ways MOOCs are helping people get on in life
How Massive Open Online Courses are maturing into useful tools.
As learning moves online, trigger warnings must too
Lecturers need to flag up graphic material with their students before they click on it.
In defense of the great MOOC experiment
Is there an impatience to write the history of MOOCs? Have universities even given sufficient time to experiment with MOOCs?
Why MOOCs will fail – they’re not dating sites
One of my Phd students is studying how parents make decisions about education for their children (you can participate in his survey here). We economists treat this as a problem of investment under uncertainty…
Is online education good or bad? And is this really the right question?
For the past twenty years, I’ve heard this question asked many times about online education. It might be tempting for enthusiasts to say “of course it is good,” but I see this as a kind of “trick question…
MOOCs and meetups together make for better learning
Everyday, thousands of students around the world perch themselves in front of computer screens in homes, libraries, coffee shops, and Internet cafes to take a massive open online course (MOOC). It’s no…
MOOC your way to a free MBA?
It has been suggested that, with care and dedication, you can assemble a Masters of Business Administration for free. Perhaps unsurprisingly for those in the know, the idea hasn’t caught on. When leading…
Explainer: what is a Small Private Online Course?
If you have studied an online course at a university over the past couple of decades, you’ve probably already experienced a SPOC, or Small Private Online Course. SPOC is a new term for an old concept…
Online vs face-to-face learning: why can’t we have both?
Ever since the invention of the printed word, academics have been arguing about the proper place of technology in teaching. On one side are those who I’ll call the traditionalists who insist on the primacy…
Does the age of online education herald the death of academics?
In the mid-1980s as a further education lecturer I was mocked by some more traditional colleagues for using “lantern slides”, their term for the then newfangled technology of the overhead projector, or…
Search results show MOOCs are driving online brand awareness for universities
Think of a university, any university. Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard or Yale may spring to mind. Or your local university, or the one you or someone you know attended. I’m fairly sure that the University…
Don’t dismiss MOOCs – we are just starting to understand their true value
Over the past couple of years, massive open online courses (MOOCs) have taken the academic world by storm. Despite much debate about whether the idea of running free online courses for everyone is both…
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