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James Ronholm's bookmarks
IBM Research: the classroom will learn you
By James Ronholm 29 December 2013 @ 10:15pmwww.research.ibm.com - This seems to follow what I've been reading from Stephen Downes about the next generation of knowledge/learning/community, found on George Siemens' page "Connectivisim" (Connectivism.ca).Business Model for Education Venture Calls for ‘Empowering Adjuncts’
By James Ronholm 7 August 2013 @ 11:15am Comments (2)chronicle.com - The article describes it as an anti-MOOC because it will have small class sizes and cost money - but it's not your traditional model either. They don't have any accreditation yet but hope to receive it in Vermont. It will be online but different...Watering the Roots of Knowledge Through Collaborative Learning
By James Ronholm 15 July 2013 @ 2:25am Comments (1)chronicle.com - It reads a little like an advertisment for QuestU but it is about a different teaching model. They use block teaching and no lectures and the professor's first job is to teach. As is often the case there is very interesting reading in the discussionMath, Science Popular Until Students Realize They’re Hard
By James Ronholm 12 July 2013 @ 11:17amblogs.wsj.com - Actually - they dropped out because their marks were low (not because the courses were hard). "The survey results also showed that the students who dropped out didn’t do so because they discovered an unexpected amount of the work ... The...Oregon state passes a "pay it forward" model of funding PSE
By James Ronholm 8 July 2013 @ 12:45pm Comments (2)www.huffingtonpost.com - Oregon state passes a "pay it forward" model of funding PSE. Students pay nothing. Graduates pay a percentage of their paycheck into a fund for 24 years. Significant problem: startup funding
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