https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=439262 2016-09-07T09:15:20Z https://www.snipit.org/images/scissors.gif https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewchannel.php?catid=439262 Snip!t channel - Alan Dix: Channels > education > open learning 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. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1577744 http://kids.frontiersin.org/ 2016-09-07T09:15:20Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1540772 http://pnis.co/scinews/vol2_24.html 2016-01-02T12:00:33Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1470264 http://www.rvc.ac.uk/Review/ocular_reflexes/ 2015-04-18T12:44:11Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1372854 http://www.openculture.com/faq 2014-06-09T20:12:39Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1341547 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2014/02/17/u-people-earns-accreditation-challenging-view-agencies-stifle-innovation 2014-02-17T10:13:36Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1296935 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/11/us/after-setbacks-online-courses-are-rethought.html?_r=1& 2014-01-10T16:48:48Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=1023251 http://gerryco23.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/public-libraries-150-years-of-advance-is-being-destroyed/ 2013-03-10T12:29:27Z Anti-parabola propoganda, plus musing on math class, car... dots, envelopes of lines, even a bit of origami. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=858305 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-pyuaThp-c&feature=relmfu 2012-10-02T09:24:56Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=858304 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4x5FZyzLyQ&feature=related 2012-10-02T09:15:51Z After a report last week about plagiarism incidences on ... offers free online courses, the startup has added honor ... help keep students honest. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=835131 http://gigaom.com/2012/08/22/amid-plagiarism-reports-coursera-adds-honor-code-reminders/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OmMalik+%28GigaOM%3A+Tech%29 2012-08-23T11:43:10Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=831324 http://techcrunch.com/2012/05/09/move-over-harvard-and-mit-stanford-has-the-real-revolution-in-education/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29 2012-08-19T21:29:25Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=829887 http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/2012/07/25/moocs-are-really-a-platform/ 2012-08-16T07:14:29Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=829873 http://pmasson.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/ive-been-in-this-really-good-mooc-for-the-past-20-years-it-called-the-internet/ 2012-08-16T07:07:57Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=829871 http://www.ted.com/talks/daphne_koller_what_we_re_learning_from_online_education.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2012-08-02&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email 2012-08-16T07:07:17Z SocialLearn is an experimental online learning space on ... 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A jQuery plugin for generating a usable, int https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=825068 https://github.com/Khan/khan-exercises 2012-08-06T11:45:20Z Video Comment 0 inShare3 ... h of its e-book titles to the iPhone and the iPod Touch. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=822445 http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/31/inkling-iphone-ipod-touch-3-0/ 2012-07-31T15:21:10Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=821529 http://gigaom.com/2012/07/27/memo-to-higher-ed-get-ready-for-remote-learning-to-rock-your-world/ 2012-07-29T17:15:29Z 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. https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=820227 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/what-its-like-to-teach-a-mooc-and-what-the-hecks-a-mooc/260000/ 2012-07-26T18:12:30Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=820223 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18191589 2012-07-26T18:11:18Z 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 ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=820221 http://reflectionsandcontemplations.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/review-of-the-coursera-human-computer-interaction-course/ 2012-07-26T18:07:23Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=819269 http://www.jisc.ac.uk/blog/no-such-thing-as-a-free-mooc/ 2012-07-25T10:18:58Z https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=815381 http://business.time.com/2012/07/12/the-glorious-end-of-higher-educations-monopoly-on-credibility/ 2012-07-17T17:54:14Z 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 ... https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=815377 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-18857999 2012-07-17T17:48:53Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=442519 http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html 2011-05-21T09:13:49Z 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 https://www.snipit.org/public/alan/viewsnip.php?id=439261 http://www.openculture.com/faq 2011-05-16T17:44:22Z