Loading...
Stephen's Web ~ Link
OLDaily - Text Edition by Stephen Downes Mar 08, 2017
What’s the problem with competency based education?
,
-------------------------------------------------------------
Link
I know competences are the next big thing and that a lot of
time and money i being devoted to competency-based
education, but I can't help feeling uneasy about them. This
article identifies some reasons why. First "is the myth
that employers always know best... the problem with
employers is that they tend to look to the present or the
short term future in defining skills requirements." Second
is "the relationship between ‘competence’ and
knowledge and how to define performance to meet such
competence." Finally, "I would be deeply suspicious of just
what they mean by 'tuition model is subscription based'?
This seems like just another attempt to package up
education for sale in nice chunks: a step forward in the
privatisation of education."
Comment: Link
Direct Link:
Link
Foreign enrolment surging in China
,
-------------------------------------------------------------
Link
It used to be the case that students left China to study
abroad. This continues, but a new trend is that students
are traveling to China to study. "More than 440,000
international students were enrolled in China last year, an
increase of 11.4% over 2015." This would over time be
accompanied by increased enrollments in Chinese online
learning classes. This poses a challenge to countries like
Britain and Australia who have developed an overseas
education market. Image: Wikipedia. Related: cultural
experience
Link
is a primary motivator of overseas study.
Comment: Link
Direct Link:
Link
Interested in Teaching Online?
,
-------------------------------------------------------------
Link
Introduced today at the SUNY COTE 2017 conference I'm
attending. From the website: "This course is designed to
introduce you to teaching online – the concepts,
competencies, pedagogies, and practices that are required
to plan, develop, and teach an online course. Along with
introducing you to these key topics, this course will
showcase the perspectives of students, faculty, and
instructional designers who have a wide range of experience
teaching and learning online." It's still a work in
progress, so be kind to the authors.
Comment: Link
Direct Link: Link
OntarioLearn: 24 Public Colleges in Ontario Collaborate
,
-------------------------------------------------------------
Link
OntarioLearn "is a consortium of Ontario’s 24 public
colleges who partner to share more than 1,200 online
courses and several online programs to make them accessible
to students across the province and beyond. In 2015-16,
there were over 70,000 registrations in their shared online
courses." This article provides an overview of OntarioLearn
describing recent innovations, benefits, and challenges.
Comment: Link
Direct Link:
Link
For Young People, News Is Mobile, Social, and Hard to
Trust, Studies Find
,
-------------------------------------------------------------
Link
I recently covered the Shattered Mirror
Linkreport, which suggests
(among other things) that young readers still trust media.
I think that it is an outlier, and I'm seeing more
studies with the current conclusion: young people (and
people in general) find it very difficult to trust media.
The cherry-picking of a single study to make the opposite
point is a case in point. It's not false news, fake news,
or even a lie, exactly, but it's very misleading, and it
happens all the time. No single study says anything. I wish
news media would learn that, and I'm hoping that young
people are learning that as they become much more
media-savvy than their parents.
Comment: Link
Direct Link:
Link
Build a Custom Serverless CMS: Part 2
,
-------------------------------------------------------------
Link
The second part of this series is now available (I covered
the first part here Link and it
directly relates to some of what I will be talking about
tomorrow. The first part described how to build a
serverless static site generator; this one covers a
serverless content management system (CMS). This ties in to
the idea that everybody will (eventually) have their own
web presence. This is the mechanism that frees us from the
hands of Facebook and Twitter (and puts us into the hands
of AWS and Azure).
Comment: Link
Direct Link:
Link
Archive Link
Discuss Link
Search Link
About Link
Options Link
This newsletter is sent only at the request
of subscribers. If you would like to unsubscribe:
Link
Know a friend who might enjoy this newsletter? Feel
free to forward OLDaily to your colleagues.
If you received this issue from a friend and
would like a free subscription of your own,
you can join our mailing list.
Link
Copyright 2017 Stephen Downes
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License
Link
Loading...
Loading...
