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Kolowich, S. (2009) Hybrid education 2.0 Inside Higher Education, December 28 An interesting article that provides more information about the Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative, particularly the instructional design behind the initiative. The importance of the model (if I understand it correctly) is that while providing a more or less self-standing online learning environment, instructors can gather [...] Van Dusen, C. (2009) eSN Special Report: Beyond the Virtual School eSchool News, Nov 1 Because of the volume of stuff that comes through my portal, I don’t usually cover k-12 reports, but I’m including this one because it provides some excellent examples of what I like to call hybrid learning (reduced but not eliminated face-to-face [...] Carter, D. (2009) Program goes beyond open course model eSchool News, September 16 Parry, M. (2009) Obama’s Great Course Giveaway Chronicle of Higher Education, August 3 These two articles discuss Carnegie Mellon University’s Open Learning Initiative, which takes open educational resources to the next level. Carnegie Mellon is making available to other institutions (mainly community colleges) specially [...] Simmi Aujla (2009) In Rural India, Learning English via Cellphone Chronicle of Higher Education, October 21 A project based at Carnegie Mellon University will study how effective games on cellphones are at teaching English to students in rural India. Comment Why am I deeply skeptical of such a worthy effort? Could it be that loaning 450 cellphones to [...] |
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