Democratization of Education - How do you define this?
Fri, Dec 18 2015 07:00
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I've been trying to catch up with things I've saved in my Pocket reading list over the course of this past semester, and one of the articles (or blog posts?) came across was about how MOOCs have failed to democratize education, and given that this was one of the fundamental goals of MOOCs this is a problem.I don't think I know where exactly this goal, or rhetoric, about democratizing education came
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What IS mLearning anyway?
Mon, Sep 10 2012 10:11
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One of the first things to deal with when tackling any topic is quantifying what we are talking about. Since this is MobiMOOC, one of the key terms that ought to come up in the discussion is what exactly is mobile learning? This discussion did indeed come up yesterday (see forum here).Let me just say that mLearning definitions are probably incomplete and they are subject to an ever evolving
Quack! (If it looks like a duck...)
Tue, Aug 9 2011 05:19
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I was just about to give up on eduMOOC when this thread was started (or rather evolved from a previous thread) about what is an isn't a MOOC. A Similar discussion came up on the Wikieducator list for eduMOOC. A MOOC is a Massive Online Open Course, or so says the acronym. The concept of a MOOC was articulated by Cormier and Siemens (2010) in Educause (free read). The words Massive, Online
Definition of a PLE
Fri, Jul 9 2010 09:39
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This came across my twitter stream today, pretty interesting what you can do with a Prezi (haven't spent much time on Prezi - I suppose I should once I finish Applied Linguistics and I have some more free time on my hands :-) ).prezi-player { width: 500px; } .prezi-player-links { text-align: center; }Definition of a PLE on Prezi