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• 11 Oct 09
  

  J Black

  education edupunks openuniversity college2.0

  • What WGU is doing is using the Internet to disaggregate the various functions of teaching: the "sage on the stage" conveyor of information, the cheerleader and helpmate, and the evaluator.
  • surveys both graduates and their employers to find out if they are lacking in any competencies so they can continue to fine-tune their programs.
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  • • Universitas doesn't mean campus, or class, or a particular body of knowledge; it means the guild, the group of people united in scholarship.
    • scarcity of knowledge to unimaginable abundance
• 24 Sep 09
  

  Nils Peterson
  • WGU constantly surveys both graduates and their employers to find out if they are lacking in any competencies so they can continue to fine-tune their programs.
  • So far, the open-education movement has been supported, to an astonishing extent, by a single donor: The Hewlett Foundation has made $68 million worth of grants to initiatives at Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Rice, Stanford, and Tufts. Today, such foundation money is slowing, but new sources of financing are emerging. President Barack Obama has directed $100 billion in stimulus money to education at all levels, and he recently appointed a prominent advocate of open education to be undersecretary of education (Martha Kanter, who helped launch the 100-member Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources and the Community College Open Textbook Project)
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  • • Today, we've gone from scarcity of knowledge to unimaginable abundance. It's only natural that these new, rapidly evolving information technologies would convene new communities of scholars, both inside and outside existing institutions.
• 17 Sep 09
  

  Joan Van Duzer

  Interesting take on the future of higher education.

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• 17 Aug 09
  

  Lana Camiel

  edupunk education openuniversity college2.0 ideas online

• 13 Aug 09
  

  Brett Boessen
  • Illuminated manuscripts of the period show a professor at a podium lecturing from a revered volume while rows of students sit with paper and quill -- the same basic format that most classes take 1,000 years later.

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      Brett Boessen on 2009-08-13

      Now that's a statistic that'll make you sit up in your chair.
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  Carol Furchner

  edupunk education openuniversity college2.0 ideas online

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  Kim FLINTOFF

  edupunks education

  • Mendenhall is impatient with those who argue that what he's doing with education and technology is unworkable. "Technology has changed the productivity equation of every industry except education," he says. "We're simply trying to demonstrate that it can do it in education -- if you change the way you do education as opposed to just adding technology on top."

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      Kim FLINTOFF on 2009-08-13

      This is one dimension that many formal tecahers (university or school) seem to miss - the change occurs in their minds and their behaviours - the change of technology is just the superficial part.
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      Brett Boessen on 2009-08-13

      That's a nice way to put it, although I think "just the superficial part" may be a bit too soft. Still, when a person does change her attitude about education, what technology she uses to implement it is in some ways immaterial.
• 11 Aug 09
  

  Barbara Lindsey
  • For every 80 students, a PhD faculty member, certified in the discipline, serves as a full-time mentor. "Our faculty are there to guide, direct, counsel, coach, encourage, motivate, keep on track, and that's their whole job," Mendenhall says. Multiple-choice tests are scored by computer, while essays and in-person evaluations are judged by a separate cadre of graders. What WGU is doing is using the Internet to disaggregate the various functions of teaching: the "sage on the stage" conveyor of information, the cheerleader and helpmate, and the evaluator. WGU constantly surveys both graduates and their employers to find out if they are lacking in any competencies so they can continue to fine-tune their programs.
  • "Technology has changed the productivity equation of every industry except education," he says. "We're simply trying to demonstrate that it can do it in education -- if you change the way you do education as opposed to just adding technology on top."
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  • • The transformation of education may happen faster than we realize. However futuristic it may seem, what we're living through is an echo of the university's earliest history. Universitas doesn't mean campus, or class, or a particular body of knowledge; it means the guild, the group of people united in scholarship. The university as we know it was born around AD 1100, when communities formed in Bologna, Italy; Oxford, England; and Paris around a scarce, precious information technology: the handwritten book. Illuminated manuscripts of the period show a professor at a podium lecturing from a revered volume while rows of students sit with paper and quill -- the same basic format that most classes take 1,000 years later.
    • Today, we've gone from scarcity of knowledge to unimaginable abundance.
• 10 Aug 09
  

  David Bill

  pd education future idea teaching online openeducation

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  Brett Boessen on 2009-08-13
  That's a nice way to put it, although I think "just the superficial part" may be a bit too soft. Still, when a person does change her attitude about education, what technology she uses to implement it is in some ways immaterial.
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  Kim FLINTOFF on 2009-08-13
  This is one dimension that many formal tecahers (university or school) seem to miss - the change occurs in their minds and their behaviours - the change of technology is just the superficial part.
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  Brett Boessen on 2009-08-13
  Now that's a statistic that'll make you sit up in your chair.

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