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…
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Why standardised testing should not be the dominant culture in education
Ken Robinson outlines three important principles to be adhered to if learning is to flourish in educational institutions — cater for diversity, nurture curiosity, and encourage creativity. Unfortunately, many education systems are characterised by conformity, standardisation, and compliance. Testing has a lot…
Tagged with: Ken Robinson, learner centric, participatory pedagogy, personalised curriculum, standardised testing, student engagement
Posted in Creativity, Exemplary practice
Posted in Creativity, Exemplary practice
How to promote digital literacies among faculty
In the recently published NMC Horizon Project Regional Analysis, Technology Outlook for Australian Tertiary Education 2013-18, it stated (p.3) that (shock, horror) there is a need for more faculty training to improve digital media literacy ‘before being asked to teach,…
Tagged with: 21st century skills, digital literacy, disruptive innovation, Horizon Report, learner centric, LMS, m-learning, MOOC, new literacy, OBOW, online education, participatory pedagogy, personalised curriculum, PLE, social media, student engagement, teaching, technology, tools, universities, VLE, web 2.0
Posted in Academic literature, Exemplary practice, Online learning, Practical advice, Social networking
Posted in Academic literature, Exemplary practice, Online learning, Practical advice, Social networking
Why MOOCs matter
Amid all the hoo-har about MOOCs and the will-they won’t-they debate over their impact on university business models, a piece by Tom Friedman caught my eye the other day on the rise of the ‘celebrity professor’. The stimulus for the…
Tagged with: disruptive innovation, Harvard, MIT, MOOC, MOOCs, online education, technology, Tom Friedman, universities
Posted in Exemplary practice, Flexible delivery, Online learning
Posted in Exemplary practice, Flexible delivery, Online learning
The Star Alliance model of higher education
Image source: thaicargo.com I read a great piece, Jailbreaking the Degree, in TechCrunch the other day (courtesy of Meetali Mukherjee). In essence the author — @davidblake, founder of Degreed — makes the point that a university degree continues to be the…
The adoption of digital pedagogies in Singapore
I have blogged about Singapore’s FutureSchools projects in the past, and this latest clip from Edutopia would seem to indicate that serious progress is being made. The true success of this initiative, of course, will be the extent to which…
Tagged with: 21st century skills, digital literacy, digital native, digital pedagogies, K-12, learner centric, m-learning, new literacy, online education, participatory pedagogy, personalised curriculum, student engagement, teaching, technology
Posted in Creativity, Exemplary practice, Flexible delivery, Online learning
Posted in Creativity, Exemplary practice, Flexible delivery, Online learning
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