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Trends in eLearning – Week 2 – 4 Feb 2014
This week we looked at the 2014 Horizon Report for Higher education and discussed MOOCs.
We looked at the 2014 report and discussed the key trends, challenges and time to adoption horizons. In the key trends it was clear to me that the fast trends will feed the mid-range trends and these will feed the long-range trends. For example social media challenges and integration of online, hybrid collaborative learning in the short term will fuel the shift from student as a consumer to student as a creator driven by big data; which in turn with agile approaches to change will see an evolution of online learning. It may be simplistic to to link them but I believe if the tends in the short term are met it will allow for the others.
Through the discussion an article by Michael Barber, Katelyn Donnelly, Saad Rizvi published in 2013 called An avalanche is coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead was recalled. In the post linked above I detail what I got from the article and I feel that yes third level institutions need to adapt to the new digital revolution, however it is not the first revolution the incumbents have had to deal with. The likes of Harvard and Oxford will always be around with others trying to emulate them, however only time will tell if niche university will stand the test.
MOOCs were also discussed with Kevin encouraging us to at least register for a course. I did and posted a comment on the discussion forum, replicated here, about my experience. I initially thought I could argue Alison provide MOOCs however it is clear there is no collaboration or networking involved and this makes them online courses rather than MOOCs.
Before next week I hope to look at a real MOOC, the 3 main providers of MOOC’s; Coursera, Udacity and edX.
I tried a MOOC
Through work I came across a company in Galway offering their version of MOOCs, the site is http://alison.com. I completed a course on Google Apps and passed the assessment, this was a series of questions and I was able to guess a few. The course consisted of a number of video files about Google […]
MOOC
MOOC stands for Massive – Open – Online – Course. See also What is a MOOC I Tried a MOOC I found this image on Wikipedia that I thought was a describer of it. source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MOOC_poster_mathplourde.jpg Creative Commons license CC-BY. Author Mathieu Plourde {(Mathplourde on Flickr)}
2014 NMC Horizon Report – Higher Education Edition
Johnson, L., Adams Becker, S., Estrada, V., Freeman, A. (2014). NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Higher Education Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium. The Horizon Report is an internationally recognised report that identifies and describes emerging technologies. The research is done online amongst a panel of 53 experts in many fields including education and […]
Trends in eLearning – Week 1 28 Jan 2014
This week we started the trends in eLearning with Kevin ORourke. In his description of the module he stated we will be looking at the Horizon Reports and Gartner Hype Cycles and discuss the findings. We review the preview of the of the 2013 Higher Education Horizon report and discussed tablet computing, big data, Gamification […]
ePortfolio – Work so far presentation 21 Jan 2013
An avalanche is coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead
Barber M., Donnelly K., Rizvi S. (2013), An avalanche is coming: Higher education and the revolution ahead, http://www.ippr.org/images/media/files/publication/2013/04/avalanche-is-coming_Mar2013_10432.pdf Author(s): Michael Barber, Katelyn Donnelly, Saad Rizvi Published date: 11 Mar 2013 Source http://www.ippr.org/images/media/files/publication/2013/04/avalanche-is-coming_Mar2013_10432.pdf What I got out of the article was as follows: Globalisation and Technology is fuelling change The ubiquity of data, proliferation of the internet and mobile connectivity […]
New technology trends in education: Seven years of forecasts and convergence
Martin, S., Diaz, G., Sancristobal, E., Gil, R., Castro, M., & Peire, J. (2011). New technology trends in education: Seven years of forecasts and convergence. Computers & Education, 57(3), P1893-1906. This article looks at the trends identified over a 10 year period in seven Horizon reports on technology. See Post on 2014 Horizon Report for […]
Learning Theories Assignment
Learning theories that have been utilised in an informal education organisation NameStudent Number Course Module Hugh McLainD13124350 MSc in Applied eLearning (DT580) Learning Theories Introduction In this paper I explore a selection of learning theories and critically discuss how I have applied them in an authentic real life situation in which I […]
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