Innovative Pedagogy 2013

Open University selected pedagogies that might transform education – and interestingly included assessment. Innovating Technology starts with MOOCs and moves to a maker culture.

• Badges to accredit learning
• Citizen inquiry
• Crowd Learning
• Digital scholarship
• Geo-learning
• Learning analytics
• Learning from gaming
• Maker culture
• MOOCs
• Seamless learning

Open University report

In just the bli…

In just the blink of an eye, the key challenge for higher education has switched from selecting who gets in, to grading who gets out.

Another shift in higher education  – who controls access and who controls assessment and credentials?

 

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Free books now with MOOCs

First came free online courses. Now come — with a few conditions — free online textbooks.Coursera to offer students free online textbooks, with conditions

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/free-online-textbooks-with-conditions/2013/05/07/b49364ce-b761-11e2-92f3-f291801936b8_story.html

Coursera, a provider of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, from dozens of universities, announced Wednesday a partnership with several publishers to provide portions of certain textbooks free for students to use while they take the courses. course materials — from publishers including Cengage Learning, Macmillan Higher Education, Oxford University Press, SAGE and Wiley — would be available through e-readers from the student-services company Chegg.