Tag: online course

So what’s a MOOC…?

Jul 3, 2014

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Graeme Smith

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I thought I better check this out since I’m talking about it the literacy and numeracy conference in Wellington next week. According to the Wikipedia Entry on MOOCs: A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC; /muːk/) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials…
Beat the coming post-industrial education dystopia…

May 20, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Edtech, Education, Embed literacy and numeracy, Embed numeracy, Embedded numeracy, Embedding numeracy, Literacy and Numeracy, NCALNE, Professional Development, Qualifications, Uncategorized

I’m trying to beat this dystopian view of the post-industrial educational future that’s creeping into my nightmares: It is the not-so-distant future. Most countries outsource most of their education to other countries. It’s online and mostly free for most of the people most of the time. A few lucky and dynamic education super-specialists dominate massive online…