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2014-06-09 20:12:39     About Us - | Open Culture

http://www.openculture.com/faq

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2011-05-16 17:44:22     About Us | Open Culture

http://www.openculture.com/faq

Open Culture brings together high-quality cultural & edu... the worldwide lifelong learning community. Web 2.0 has g... amounts of intelligent audio and video. It’s all free.... enriching. But it’s also scattered across the web, and... Our whole m

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2014-01-10 16:48:48     After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought - NYTimes.com

http://www.nytimes.com/...ine-courses-are-rethought.html?...

Two years after a Stanford professor drew 160,000 studen... globe to a free online course on artificial intelligence... widely viewed as a revolution in higher education, early... large-scale courses are disappointing, forcing a rethink... instruction

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2012-08-23 11:43:10     Amid plagiarism reports, Coursera adds honor code reminders — Tech News and Analysis

http://gigaom.com/...coursera-adds-honor-code-reminders/?...

After a report last week about plagiarism incidences on ... offers free online courses, the startup has added honor ... help keep students honest.

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2012-07-26 18:11:18     BBC News - Top US universities put their reputations online

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18191589

This autumn more than a million students are going to ta... experiment that could re-invent the landscape of higher ...
Some of the biggest powerhouses in US higher education a ...
Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ha ...
Sounding li

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2012-07-17 17:48:53     BBC News - UK university joins US online partnership

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18857999

Edinburgh University is to be the first UK institution t... influential US-based online university project.
Edinburgh is part of a major expansion in the Coursera p ...
The online platform was set up this year with content fr ...

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2012-08-16 07:07:17     Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education | Video on TED.com

http://www.ted.com/...earning_from_online_education.html?...

Daphne Koller is enticing top universities to put their ... courses online for free -- not just as a service, but as... how people learn. Each keystroke, comprehension quiz, pe... discussion and self-graded assignment builds an unpreced... on how know

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2012-10-02 09:24:56     Doodling in Math Class: Connecting Dots - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pyuaThp-c&feature=relmfu

Anti-parabola propoganda, plus musing on math class, car... dots, envelopes of lines, even a bit of origami.

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2012-08-16 07:14:29     elearnspace › MOOCs are really a platform

http://www.elearnspace.org/b.../moocs-are-really-a-platform/

Our MOOC model emphasizes creation, creativity, autonomy... networked learning. The Coursera model emphasizes a more... learning approach through video presentations and short ... testing. Put another way, cMOOCs focus on knowledge crea... whereas xMO

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2016-09-07 09:15:20     Frontiers for Young Minds

http://kids.frontiersin.org/

Frontiers for Young Minds provides a collection of freel... scientific articles by distinguished scientists that are... audiences by the input of their own young peers.

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2012-07-17 17:54:14     Higher Education's Monopoly on Credibility Is Ending | Business | TIME.com

http://business.time.com/...cations-monopoly-on-credibility/

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2012-08-16 07:07:57     I’ve been in this really good MOOC for the past 20 years, it called “The Internet.” « CIOh-no

http://pmasson.wordpress.com/...ears-it-called-the-internet/

I’d like to suggest a great MOOC that has been around ... “massive” (nearly a half million members), it is ope... (anyone can join without cost), it is open–as in share... copyright: all content by all contributors is in the pub... online (www

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2012-07-31 15:21:10     Inkling Debuts Version 3.0, Bringing Its Interactive E-Books To The iPhone | TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/2012.../inkling-iphone-ipod-touch-3-0/

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2012-08-06 11:45:20     Khan/khan-exercises

https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises

Khan Academy has created a generic framework for buildin... framework, together with the exercises themselves, can b...
The framework exists in two components:
An HTML markup for specifying exercises.
A jQuery plugin for generating a usable, int

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2012-07-29 17:15:29     Memo to higher ed: get ready for remote learning to rock your world — Tech News and Analysis

http://gigaom.com/...for-remote-learning-to-rock-your-world/

Like it or loathe it, web-enabled remote learning is inc... its way into colleges and universities around the world.... a survey from the Pew Internet and American Life Project...
In a report released today, Pew and Elon University said ...
The researc

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2012-08-19 21:29:25     Move Over Harvard And MIT, Stanford Has The Real “Revolution In Education” | TechCrunch

http://techcrunch.com/...e-real-revolution-in-education/?...

Lectures are often the least educational aspect of colle... taught college seniors and witnessed how little students... four years in higher education. So, while it’s noble t... are opening their otherwise exclusive lecture content to...
A revolutio

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2012-07-25 10:18:58     No such thing as a free MOOC : JISC

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/no-such-thing-as-a-free-mooc/

In his recent JISC blog, David Kernohan asks: ‘Why bot... fees to attend university? …What if you could get it a... online?’ Of course, it is tongue in cheek, because as ... suggests, you don’t get something for nothing.
And that brings me to o

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2015-04-18 12:44:11     Ocular Reflexes

http://www.rvc.ac.uk/Review/ocular_reflexes/

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2012-08-06 11:51:46     Overblown-Claims-of-Failure Watch: How Not to Gauge the Success of Online Courses - Rebecca J. Rosen - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201.../260159/

Online courses are experiencing sky-high dropout rates, ... a good thing.

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2013-03-10 12:29:27     Public libraries: 150 years of advance is being destroyed | That's How The Light Gets In

http://gerryco23.wordpress.com/...dvance-is-being-destroyed/

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2012-07-26 18:07:23     Review of the Coursera Human Computer Interaction Course | Reflections

http://reflectionsandcontemplations.wordpress.com/...course/

I’ve now finished the Coursera Human Computer Interact... await my final grade, I reflect on my experience, on the... student numbers, and on how the platform can develop.
It’s been a wonderfully wide-ranging course, spanning ...

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2012-08-06 11:53:48     SocialLearn | Learning Through Social Connection

http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/sociallearn/

SocialLearn is an experimental online learning space on ... The latest evolution in virtual learning, SocialLearn co... networking, Open University and wider web resources and ...
Developed in response to feedback about the need for inf ...
The platfor

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2016-01-02 12:00:33     Student puts science fair project behind a paywall, wins first prize

http://pnis.co/scinews/vol2_24.html

Wendell’s science fair project consists solely of a tr... display board covered by a white sheet that displays cur... options. Patrons can view the display board for 15 minut... $39.95 one-time fee, or they can purchase a subscription...
Tommy says

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2011-05-21 09:13:49     The Right to Read - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

The right to read is a battle being fought today. Althou... years for our present way of life to fade into obscurity... specific laws and practices described above have already... many have been enacted into law in the US and elsewhere.... 1998 Digita

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2014-02-17 10:13:36     U. of the People earns accreditation, challenging view that agencies stifle innovation | Inside Higher Ed

http://www.insidehighered.com/...-agencies-stifle-innovation

But last week brought word of a very different kind of a... outcome, one that arguably challenges parts of that meme... Education and Training Council gave its stamp of approva... the People, a five-year-old global, online institution t...
The univers

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2012-10-02 09:15:51     Vi Hart - Behind the Scenes and Interview - YouTube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4x5FZyzLyQ&feature=related

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2012-07-26 18:12:30     What It's Like to Teach a MOOC (and What the Heck's a MOOC?) - Robinson Meyer - The Atlantic

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/201.../260000/

But because MOOCs are so new, and so limited before yest... first-hand discussion of what it's like to teach one has... current MOOC moment began less than a year ago, when Sta... free, chunked artificial intelligence course online, and... signed up.

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