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The dirty little secret of online learning: Students are bored and dropping out
Online education has been around for a long time. But massive open online courses are finally making it respectable. Maybe even cool. Let’s not forget, though, that they are still experiments.Andreas...
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Uni is all about teaching, not research papers
'We were wrong. In Rwanda … we were wrong.'' The lecture hall is listening attentively.Andreas Kuswara's insight:an interesting article about university and different perspectives of its role.See it...
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Bill Gates: Teachers need real feedback
Until recently, many teachers only got one word of feedback a year: "satisfactory." And with no feedback, no coaching, there's just no way to improve. Bill G...Andreas Kuswara's insight:feedback to...
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Meet Alyx, a REAL Google Sales Intern
Alyx interned at Google on the Small and Medium Business team in Sales. As an intern, she became a social media expert and successfully pitched a $300,000 so...Andreas Kuswara's insight:"something you...
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Reconciling the M & O in MOOCs
I can relate to the author of this article, having tried several MOOCs my self, i must say that i have a mixed feelings about it. Is there a dilemma here that the MOOCs professors had to face?...
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The Ed Techie: If education were free, what would MOOCs be?
Interesting 'thought experiment', if we take out the economical argument out, what's there to discuss? I think, a lot, okay, but what are they? Would MOOCs still massive? Would it still be open? How...
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Mobile Learning In The Classroom and at the workplace
There has always been at least some sort of disconnect between how things like mobile learning are taught in a classroom and how things work in the 'real world'. An interesting info graphics about the...
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The Dynamics of Creativity
A short post by sir Ken about his view of creativitySee it on Scoop.it, via Good Pedagogy
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Extending the Boundaries of Learning: A Challenge for IT in Higher Education
A description of the information technology revolution in higher education and the future challenges waiting for our education institutions and the higher education IT community.Andreas Kuswara's...
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Studying Learning in the Worldwide Classroom: Research into edX’s First MOOC...
Research & Practice in Assessment is an online journal dedicated to the advancement of scholarly discussion between researchers and practitioners in the field of student learning outcomes...
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Learning, Learning, Learning not Apps, Apps, Apps
"An app on its own is like a thinker without thoughts!" Actually it's probably more like a plate without the dish, since apps role is only to provide affordances for learning activities to occur, the...
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Using YouTube In The Classroom
"If you like to bring multimedia into your lessons (and who doesn't?) then you probably use YouTube in the classroom from time to time." YouTube also can go beyond merely viewing video, it gives us the...
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Massive: What Good is the M in MOOC?
Andreas Kuswara's insight:Interesting question, why massive? as in why so many students have to enroll in a single class? why not making the class small, but roll out the multiple classes? each...
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The Essence of MOOCs: Multi-Venue, Non-Linear, Learner-Initiated Learning
A discussion of MOOCs as the logical outcome of the move toward learner-initiated learning.Andreas Kuswara's insight:MOOC, LIL & BYOD enabling students to move from externally imposed learning...
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Get Started Coding: A Student's Experience
Etsy has received attention for its partnership with Hacker School to recruit more women for both coding education generally and for its engineering departme... obviously this video was made for...
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Falling asleep with Angry Birds, Facebook and Kindle
Andreas Kuswara's insight:"the average session with an application lasts less than a minute, even though users spend almost an hour a day using their phones."..."We also find that despite the variety...
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MOOCs are really a platform
Andreas Kuswara's insight:cMOOC (connectivist MOOC / the real MOOC) and xMOOC (not-connectivist MOOC) ... the author argue about the two, then make a point that MOOC is just a platform. I tend to agree...
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Ontario Today | Getting an education on-line
Andreas Kuswara's insight:This is a very useful talk, and great comments from the callers; to look at what MOOC is, so far.Curious, if it's just connecting people, would not the community such as...
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A University's Offer of Credit for a MOOC Gets No Takers
Colorado State University-Global Campus made the $89 offer but may have to adjust its thinking, officials say.Andreas Kuswara's insight:Curious if university have explored MOOC as a subscription model...
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A Simple Guide To 4 Complex Learning Theories - Infographic
Do you know the actual theories of learning? A learning theory is an attempt to describe how people learn, helping us understand this inherently complex process.Andreas Kuswara's insight:I ‘m not a...
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