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Category Archives: #CFHE12
The Tower of Babel: MOOCs, Online Learning, and Language…
Machine translation may soon, under certain conditions, make concerns about the role of language in online learning and MOOCs obsolete (e.g., Google’s ‘Babel fish’ heralds future of translation). Though this will solve the issue of translation, it will still not … Continue reading
The other “M” in the future of higher and distance education (#CFHE12)
While the current debates and discourses surrounding higher and distance education are focused (if not obsessed) with MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), there are also other “M”s to reflect upon. No, I am not talking about the Head of the … Continue reading
Posted in #CFHE12
Tagged distance education, higher education, managerialism, mobile learning, MOOC
8 Comments
Send in the clowns – managers and leaders in higher education (#CFHE)
We can possibly describe 2012 in higher education as alternating between revolution and carnival as higher education institutions across the world respond to the stampede to roll out online learning, embrace various forms of open courseware, teaching and accreditation, different … Continue reading
Posted in #CFHE12
Tagged Cynefin, distance education, e-learning, higher education, MOOC, open distance learning
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Cattle in the mist: the promise of learning analytics (#CFHE12)
“If you have three pet dogs, give them names. If you have 10,000 head of cattle, don’t bother” (David Gelernter in Long & Siemens, 2011, p. 32). Once upon a time, education consisted of small, intimate Socratic circles where learners … Continue reading
Posted in #CFHE12
Tagged distance education, George Siemens, higher education, learning analytics, massification, MOOCs
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The Ni-Ni generation: thoughts on the purpose of higher education (#CFHE12)
Can higher education change the future social stratification of society or will higher education continue to duplicate and perpetuate inequality? Should we hold higher education accountable for decreasing existing and future inequalities? With increasing numbers of graduates finding themselves joining … Continue reading
Posted in #CFHE12
Tagged distance education, graduates, higher education, Stefan Collini, unemployment, universities, Zygmunt Bauman
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In the antechamber of hope: Higher and distance education and (un)employment (#CFHE12)
There are different reasons why people hope. Many people believe that there is a reason why things happen, or that things will work out fine. This group most probably overlaps with another group who believes that the future will be … Continue reading
Of missiles, the three little pigs and the future of higher education (#CFHE12)
“… we no longer possess a home; we are repeatedly called upon to build and then rebuild one, like the three little pigs of the fairy tale, or we have to carry it along with us on our backs like … Continue reading
Posted in #CFHE12
Tagged distance education, Gregory Bateson, higher education, open distance learning, Zygmunt Bauman
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Unfit for purpose – adapting to an open, digital and mobile world (#oped12) (#CFHE12)
How important is it for a higher distance education institution to ‘fit’ into its local context? Is fitting into a local context more important than fitting into a global context? What happens when a higher distance education institution loses its … Continue reading
Posted in #CFHE12, Oped12
Tagged distance education, fitness-for-purpose, higher education, institutional fit, open distance learning
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