by Eliza Anyangwe, the Guardian
Our live chat panelists from universities including Cornell, Bath, MIT and Glasgow Caledonia suggest how to successfully extend the classroom into virtual environments. Companies want graduates who can source, filter and use existing knowledge to create new knowledge, and the university is key to equipping students with these skills. Yet we seldom see technology tools being used in radically new ways in HE. They are usually used to replicate lectures – think of websites or podcasts – rather than enabling students to learn in new ways. Massive Open Online Course is one example of transformational learning. The courses are semi structured, decentralised, and (crucially) open. People contribute via blogs, tweets and a variety of other web 2.0 tools. Students can source and bring together ideas, using hashtags, mashups and a range of technologies. The real power of a MOOC is that people learn together. But it requires a high level of self-regulation and it would seem that students going into universities today are less self-regulated than a decade ago.
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