The learning commons, sometimes called an “information commons,” has evolved from a combination library and computer lab into a full-service learning, research, and project space. As a place where students can meet, talk, study, and use “borrowed” equipment, the Modern Learning Commons brings together the functions of libraries, labs, lounges, and seminar areas in a […]
Continue reading Modern Learning Commons Posted in: Emerging Markets Poll A Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) is an emerging model for interactive online learning experiences designed to accommodate possibly unlimited numbers of learners who potentially arrive, attend, participate, and leave on their own terms. MOOCs can take advantage of existing social media and gaming environments as platforms to host both formal and informal learning experiences. Opportunity Statement […]
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Stanford, MIT, and Harvard (http://www.edxonline.org/) have fully jumped in. MOOCs are disruptive in higher learning, not in the future, but right now.
The backbone of Digital Identity is the ability to employ a single, private, secure identity system as the key to enter any number of applications and environments you might have access to. In broader strokes however, especially in education, it can encompasses the ownership (by the learner) of the learning experience and the authority to […]
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Although I realize how important digital identity is, whether it is for ventures or directly linked to educational technology, I must say I evade it like the plague, for I find there are so many political battles related to digital identity. I find that to get interested in this subject one really has to delve into the politics of digital identity and I personally find this extremely complex. I do try to respect digital identity when using online material and hope others do the same with my own work, but that is as far (for now) as my interest goes on this subject.
Marie-France
Marie-France
I think the digital identity for the time being hails or paves the way towards creating a relentlessly materialized approached to education. Realistic modifications have to be introduced to the field in order to make it suitable for the fast-growing world of digital information and for the real needs of users (people).
Hussain
Digital identity sounds like a good concept but I would always question how secure the “secure” system would be.
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Danielle 9:26 pm on May 9, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
The link above is broken but I may have found the correct article here: http://www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbouttheMo/227141
Brian H 12:58 pm on May 13, 2012 Permalink | Log in to Reply
I am going solo on this one I think. I believe we need to attempt to connect face to face with others when the opportunity presents itself. For example, there are a few other MET students in Victoria that I have met with at a local pub during courses. With our laptops and a pint in hand, we manage to have significant MET conversations and use each other as sounding boards in a way that can only be done face to face.
For the University level students coffeeshops/pubs are already taking up this endeavour but there may still be a market for a style or franchise that nails this demographic. Study lounge by day and a night life hub at night. A place of work and play, sounds fun right?
A PG model will need to be set up for public middle and high schools. I do not know what it would to look like but I do know that brick and mortar schools with row by row seating, are not conducive to the types of learning I see coming in the future.