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Michael:
1. You are not a rebel introducing the idea of free higher education to a waiting world. the idea is a commonplace, widely held, but with its prospects increasingly dim in this time of economic troubles.
2. Education is never free: someon…
Michael, you ask:
Yes, that's exactly what I am saying.
Consider avoiding the history of "the free education movement": it is a much longer and complicated history than you're aware of now, and
The intent of the OER institutions like MIT is NOT to make money. Quite the opposite:OER costs MIT a great deal, and a number of foundations have contributed large sums to the OER initiative. The motivation is provide high-quality teaching materials…
Michael, you are trying to invent a very old wheel.
It is called "credit by examination," and there are agencies and colleges around the world providing this service. See, for example, "CLEP."
http://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/clep/about…
Thanks for the references, Jim.
An interesting venture in globalizing education.
Steve
Reid suggests that we "digital converts" ought to be cautious and supportive of the "digital natives", including those middle -age converts who fancy themselves natives.
Reid, what is right way to respond to rhapsodies of this kind:
"I personally…
I think our copy goes a long way to connecting the forces to the proposals, Jim.
The notion of students in different parts of the world communicating and collaborating via the Internet lends itself to much elaboration, and really connects the idea…
I went to "e-learningforkids.org" and signed up for the English course called "Mingoville." To go through the sign up routine to get to the game of course I had to be a proficient English user. More important, the game asked me immediately to choose…
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- At 9:53am on April 2, 2009,
Ellen said… - Hi Steve,
I just joined the group, hence my dated reply! Apple has excellent deals on refurbs. They arrive nicely equipped and squeaky clean, complete with an excellent warranty. http://store.apple.com/us/browse/home/specialdeals/mac?mco=MTE3NjY
Cheers,
Ellen
- At 2:13pm on September 10, 2008,
Susana said… - Hi Steve,
I have not been back because school has just started. I teach Linguistics at Montclair State University (MSU), which started out as a normal institution. MSU became a research university in 2001. I love research, don't get me wrong, but what counts for promotion in 2008 is the number of books and articles you have published. Nothing else. For a public institution with students from middle-class and working-class backgrounds, that is ridiculous! We need to be innovative in our approach to teaching, but that detracts from our time spent on editing manuscripts.
- At 9:39pm on July 25, 2008,
Steve Eskow said…
- Thanks, Tadeusz: I learned from your message as well. As I said in my message, we need some new ways of thinking about new media and education, and why the slow rate of adoption. On the one hand we have "insistence of change" and the other "resistence to change": that view just doesn't seem much of an explanation for the endless argument that makes very little progress, but repeats itself endlessly.
- At 2:03pm on July 24, 2008,
Tadeusz Lemańczyk said… - I'd like to thank you for your comment posted today to Steve Wheeler ( http://steve-wheeler.blogspot.com/2008/06/pole-position.html ). It provides the inspiration for discussion initiated three days ago by Jim.
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