Check this out: Celebrations of Teaching & Learning
- Wes Moore (and his book, The Other Wes Moore), starting at minute 22
- Kahn Academy guy
- Henry Winkler – celebrating different intelligences, personalizing education
- Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Flipped Classrooms
Instead lecturing/imparting knowledge during class, the teacher assigns videos and other knowledge-acquiring activities that students complete on their own. Collaborative, face-to-face time is spent working through problems (what is traditionally assigned for homework), troubleshooting, and discussing.
NROC Algebra 1 Pilot Case Story from Eileen Akin on Vimeo.
MITx
MIT was already in the free “open” model, but the new part is this: if you want personal feedback from a professor, evaluation, and certification or credentials, that’s what you pay for. (I like it! I especially like how it relates to WGU’s model.) Get more info about MITx. The first one (available now) is being offered with certificate for free.
Harvard Justice
Harvard professor Michael Sandel is opening his Justice course to the world. Thousands of people will be able to participate and discuss what the right thing is to do in different situations and why. (I think it’s a really interesting way to check the moral pulse of America, or even the whole world.) Get more info about Harvard Justice.
Open, Personalized Learning
Utah State and David Willey are very influential in this movement. Here are the resources we browsed through tonight:
- OER Commons: These are the communities that share resources (all levels); use the “browse” categories (CK12 and open textbooks is another big movement related to this)
- Open CourseWare Consortium: These are people who gather open courses (not just individual resources); look at the different course partners – they include all sorts of different universities
- UEN Hippocampus: You can find full courses or course modules; e-media (for UEN) is indexing all the different video content
- MIT Open CourseWare These are full, open courses offered by MIT
- MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) Highlights for High School
- Khan Academy: Lots of video modules and practice in several different subjects; includes tracking (check the “about” section)
- Open University UK-OPenLearn: In the UK, worth looking into more
- John Hopkins OpenCourseWare: All about health – I wonder if we looked at these for our MSN/BSN resources . . . the topics look good, but it would take more time to determine whether they’re at an appropriate level and good quality
- Florida Virtual School: High school option for online learning (I went to Pearson’s session about this at UCET)
- Open Yale Courses: Similar to MIT OCW, there are several different subjects to choose from, some including several courses (not a huge selection, but it looks like there’s some interesting stuff in there)
- Open High School of Utah: This is a big deal in Utah right now, and they’re getting national attention; growing like crazy right now – students in any district can register for one or two classes
- Open Study: A group from California put together open virtual homework help, networking for students and educators – funded by volunteers and donations – the one I looked into seemed like students just wanted people to answer all the questions on a quiz or homework assignment they were doing . . . if that’s what people use it for, they’re not really learning much.
- Open Badges: By Mozilla, made with the idea of the whole community collaborating and improving the product; the DML Competition is a partner. You can earn badges based on what you’ve done. [I tried several different badges but kept getting an error when I tried to add it to my backpack. Investigate this later.]
- P2PU: Peer to Peer University – you can take any of the courses and work through them with a community of other learners and educators – people can make their own course or join something that’s already there, currently a lot of focus on writing and web development (which makes sense)
This discussion will be continued next week.
Fun with IDET 