Re-thinking School Architecture in the Age of ICT
What will the school of the future look like?Most likely, it will largely look like the school of today -- but that doesn't mean it should. Few will deny that it will most likely, and increasingly,...
View ArticleMOOCs in Africa
MOOCs? MOOCs! The excitement about the promise and potential of Massive Open Online Courses is white hot in many quarters. For those who aren't familiar with the phenomenon:A MOOC is an online course,...
View ArticleMaking Sense of MOOCs -- A Reading List
A few years ago I participated in a fascinating online course. I had earlier read a thought-provoking article called Connectivism: A Learning Theory for the Digital Age by a Canadian academic named...
View ArticleMissing Perspectives on MOOCs -- Views from developing countries
Excited discussions about 'MOOCs' are reaching a fever pitch in some quarters. Separating the hope from the hype related to the phenomenon known as Massive Open Online Courses, in which tens, and in...
View ArticleDebating MOOCs
Three recent posts on MOOCs (MOOCs in Africa, Making Sense of MOOCs -- A Reading List& Missing Perspectives on MOOCs -- Views from developing countries) have generated a large amount of traffic and...
View ArticleMore about MOOCs and developing countries
an award-winning mooc(ow), as Joyce might say The New York Times famously labeled 2012 the 'year of the MOOC', acknowledging the attention and excitement generated by a few high profile 'massive open...
View ArticleEducation & Technology in an Age of Pandemics (revisited)
consider this picture MOOCs -- massively open online courses of the sort that can simultaneously enroll thousands, even tens of thousands, of learners simultaneously -- have been a hot topic of...
View ArticleEdtech and MOOC Times in China
The Chinese word for MOOC is ... MOOC If you want to see the future of online education, lots of people will tell you to head out to Silicon Valley or New York City or Cambridge (either of them) or...
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