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OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Oct 05, 2016
Internet and is making education available to many more
people these days
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Jan 31, 2010
January 2010 / By Eva Millet
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Online Education Is Now a Global Market
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The Chronicle interviews FutureLearn head Simon Nelson. The
gist of the interview is, first, that universities have
completely absorbed MOOCs, and second, that this is opening
up international markets. "Universities are using MOOCs in
a whole range of much more strategic ways. To teach their
own students, to create pathways into their core programs,
to work in different ways with employers and transform the
way they offer training and development services to them,
etcetera. I don’t see any of that narrowing the
supply of free open courses to the world. Actually, I think
it’s going to significantly expand it."
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Citizen scientists now do more than collect data
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I've always felt that there is a huge learning opportunity
here. "The nature of citizen science is changing; citizens
aren’t simply used solely for data collection,”
says Steven Gray, assistant professor of community
sustainability at Michigan State University and the
study’s lead author. “They are designing the
protocols, conducting the experiments, securing funding,
and implementing the plans. They may not have the
credentials of scientists, but they have the capacity to
engage in the same approaches.”
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Coursera’s superheroes: Meet the Mentor team
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Coursera is now - and a bit surprisingly - drawing on
volunteer labour. "Coursera Mentors are learners who
volunteer to provide academic support in courses
they’ve already completed on Coursera. To be eligible
to be a Mentor, a learner must have passed the course with
a good grade and an exemplary forum participation record.
Mentors also complete a 2-week training course that covers
best practices..." You can see some of them here
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