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Viewing the 'one thing' in Octel's week 8

Posted on by Tom Posted in Blog posts, Course Reader

If you only do one thing…

Task: Watch

Option: 1: Saylor video


Michael Saylor:
"We're reached an inflection point where it's now cheaper to teach someone to read on a tablet computer than …on paper…. You've got this...
  • Profound,
  • Disruptive,
  • Egalitarian,
  • Utilitarian...
...tornado, that's blowing through everything..."
"Our contribution is design" 12 Academic majors, including:
  • Art History
  • History
  • Psychology
The elective courses include courses that are always on, but which in a standard university may not be always on, but sporadic, "every four years".
4:59 = Professor Consultants -> Course Outlines -> Open Education Materials -> 1. Content, 2.Form

Their flowchart for getting course material

Good bit now on OER.
  1. They make it clear that they look for OER first.
  2. Second, they look for copyrighted materials on the internet and then 'reach out' to the copyright holders to get permission to use them. "We now host over 1000 … resources from this process"
  3. Finally, if neither of the above works, they develop their own materials. The examples they offer in the video are made available by CC licence.
  4. They use Moodle to provide assessments.
  5. At 12:00 mins in, they discuss e-Portfolios.

Task: Watch

Option: 2: xMOOC model (Udacity) video

Watch... this 9 minute video about one MOOC model. I can see that this one features Sebastian Thrun from Udacity.

  • Good point at 0:53 (from 'Ingrid') that having control of the video may facilitate more social learning - you can ask your friend a question.
  • 2:30 "Rather than seeing a professor lecturing, our concept is all focused around quizzes", and they way they do it is:
    1. Write up the problem, the hand with a marker writing on the OHP slide.
    2. the student programs it into an interface and is marked
    3. if they get it wrong, they can watch a video to see how they can get it right.
  • 4:00 People come up and say, "I know you from class", which they see as restoring teaching to a first-class role.
  • 5:45 The scores are up compared to the classroom scores.
  • Around 7:00 discusses money for referring students to employers.
  • After 8:00 discusses how it offers a second chance to people, and that a good number are outstanding too.