A number of metaphors have been used to describe the momentous change foreshadowed for the higher education sector. ‘Paradigm shift’ is quite conventional, but ‘disruptive innovation’has become quite fashionable as Clayton Christensen’s theory has been applied to higher education. ‘Tsunami’…
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Want to eliminate cheating? Ask better questions
There was an excellent piece in The Conversation a week or so ago written by Beverley Oliver (@DVCEdDeakin) entitled, Proving knowledge by degrees: MOOCs and the challenge of assessment. The reference to MOOCs in the title is a useful device…
How business schools should be preparing for MOOCs
I presented at the Australia New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) institutional members meeting in Sydney this morning. My key message — in the wake of the Georgia Tech-Udacity tie-up — is that business schools ought to be preparing for…
Tagged with: 21st century skills, business school, digital literacy, disruptive innovation, m-learning, MBA, MOOC, MOOCs, online education, participatory pedagogy, teaching, technology, universities
Posted in Flexible delivery, Online learning
Posted in Flexible delivery, Online learning
Let the mainstreaming begin
There was a piece in Inside Higher Ed the other day, State Systems Go MOOC, that reported on ten state system universities in the United States signing up with Coursera to conduct several pilot projects with various goals. Reading the comments…
Tagged with: Coursera, disruptive innovation, Georgia Tech, MOOCs, teaching, technology, Udacity, universities
Posted in Flexible delivery, Online learning
Posted in Flexible delivery, Online learning
Why the Georgia Tech-Udacity tie up is a big deal
When the news broke last week that Georgia Tech had reached an agreement with Udacity and AT&T to offer a Master of Science degree in computer science for just USD7000, this must have sent shivers down the spines of university…
Tagged with: disruptive innovation, Georgia Tech, MOCs, MOOCs, online education, participatory pedagogy, teaching, technology, Udacity, universities
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Posted in Flexible delivery, Online learning, Theoretical rationale
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