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Tag Archives: e-learning
Book review: The Internet is not the answer (Andrew Keen, 2015)
There are too many examples to mention where the Internet and access to the Internet is lauded (sold?) as the answer. Recent examples include Facebook’s scheme to provide access to some services in India, of course through Facebook as platform. … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Keen, e-learning, education, Internet, technology
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Seeing Jesus in toast: Irreverent ideas on some of the claims pertaining to learning analytics
“In 2004 Diane Duyser sold a decade-old grilled cheese sandwich that bore a striking resemblance to the Virgin Mary. She got $28,000 for it on eBay” (Matter, 2014), and in 2009 Linda Lowe found an image of Jesus staring at … Continue reading
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, learning analytics, predictive modelling, student success
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Silence as counter-narrative in higher, open, distance and e-learning
At the start of 2014 it is important to claim a space in the blogosphere by making predictions for 2014 or analysing the trends in 2013. Writing a blog on being silent or ‘pausing’ is therefore most probably strange (or … Continue reading
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Tagged blog, blogging, distance education, e-learning, education, higher education, Nicoli Humphry, open distance learning, power, silence
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Alliances of hope: breaking cycles of poverty and despair
Amidst increasing concerns that higher education does not seem to make a dent in unemployment rates; many stakeholders (including students) ask various questions not only with regard to the purpose of higher education, but also about its curricula, assessment strategies, … Continue reading
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Tagged e-learning, education, Henry Giroux, higher education, neoliberalism, open distance learning, unemployment, Zygmunt Bauman
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Hashima, Foucault and the state of higher education
As 2012 winds to a close, many beg for a reprieve in the daily onslaught of changes, and reports of changes facing higher and distance education. Looking back at the end of 2011 and the start of 2012, nothing could … Continue reading
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Tagged Audrey Watters, distance education, e-learning, Foucault, Hashima, higher education, open distance learning
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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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Is the future of higher and distance education asynchronous, open and just-in-time (#oped12)?
Just in case, just in time, just enough, just for me… What do these say about our degree structures, the time (and resources) our students need to complete full qualifications designed in a bygone era and where the reality of … Continue reading
Of kittens and tigers in open education (#oped12)
In a blog post in 2003, George Siemens wondered whether OER, at that stage, was not just (yet another) cute kitten. It is almost incomprehensible that one would find someone who does not love cute kittens, and therefore, by the … Continue reading
Fifty shades of grey in higher and distance education (#oped12)
Not a day goes past without someone, somewhere claiming a new form of higher and distance education whether it is a new type of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), a Little Open Online Course (LOOC) or various degrees of for-profit … Continue reading
Posted in Oped12
Tagged accreditation, distance education, e-learning, education, higher education, LOOC, mobile learning, MOOC, online courseware, open distance learning, Udacity
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