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Feb

2011

Hacker News | MIT OpenCourseWare Turns 10: What's Next for Open Education?

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MIT OCW is very cool, and they were front runners.
What's next? Putting more course materials on the net isn't really it. What should be next is much more challenging, but has immense payoffs... something like Khan Academy is doing with personalized learning.
How awesome would it be if MIT did something like that, incorporating some of their incredible material?
Their first intent when creating OCW was actually for professors to connect:
"We set out to create a resource other faculty could draw on to improve their classes..."
It seems independent learners were an after-thought. There is immense amount of free educational content out there right now. The next step from here may be challenging. All of the what is available is great for independent learning. But the tools for engaging and collaborating with other students or professors is lacking.
We need something to connect teachers, students, independent learners together with the library of free material. Provide simple tools for collaboration inside documents like notes, bookmarks, etc. Add more extensive tools for authoring documents together.
The Khan Academy is great. But imagine giving the professor the ability to weave those videos and exercises into a textbook built from a library of other creative commons books. That would be exciting stuff.
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- People need to understand OCW and Khan Academy serve two very different purposes. OCW was made to make the awesome materials generated by MIT profs to the general public, while Khan Academy was made specifically for the purpose of giving personalised learning. In my view both of them are noble causes and non of them should be abandoned, you can teach very less material in 10 mins after you cross the K 12 level. For covering one lesson in at the undergraduate level you definitely need at least half an hour.

Dec

2011

MIT launches online learning initiative - MIT News Office

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MITx positions to offer certification for completing courses online | Hacker News

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Aug

2011

Hacker News | Stanford Fall 2011 - Machine Learning

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Aug

2011

Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course - NYTimes.com

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The two scientists said they had been inspired by the recent work of Salman Khan, an M.I.T.-educated electrical engineer who in 2006 established a nonprofit organization to provide video tutorials to students around the world on a variety of subjects via YouTube.
“The vision is: change the world by bringing education to places that can’t be reached today,” said Dr. Thrun.
For example, the Khan Academy, which focuses on high school and middle school, intentionally turns the relationship of the classroom and homework upside down. Students watch lectures at home, then work on problem sets in class, where the teacher can assist them one on one.
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- In place of office hours, they will use the Google moderator service, software that will allow students to vote on the best questions for the professors to respond to in an online chat and possibly video format. They are considering ways to personalize the exams to minimize cheating. Part of the instructional software was developed by Know Labs, a company Dr. Thrun helped start.
- “The idea that you could put up open content at all was risky 10 years ago, and we decided to be very conservative,” he said. “Now the question is how do you move into something that is more interactive and collaborative, and we will see lots and lots of models over the next four or five years.”