Tagged: education
Ever wondered which kind of researcher are you? Well, probably a combination of different types
Some fields are probably plagued by prince types while others may be more about politicians [ARTICLE]
Leaning lessons out of MOOCs: the fundamentals of online education failure
Three interesting takeaways from a Coursera based MOOC: the course was suspended but very interesting lessons have been learnt [ARTICLE]
There are different kinds of learning with different kinds of skills MIT wants to teach you how to learn almost everything
MIT’s Free Creative Learning Class is going to help you on picking up techniques that make learning new skills and keeping them for the long haul easier [ARTICLE]
Everyone is simply wonderful…at least in Academia
Fine piece about the value and role of references in Academia [ARTICLE]
The Open Online course on Human-Computer interaction has just started
Alan Dix’s MOOC on HCI just started today and looks very interesting with a lot of very accessible materials and for free [WEBSITE]
To MOOC or not to MOOC, that is the question
MOOCs (Massive open online courses) may have started with the best of intentions to open up opportunities for education- but the unintended consequence may well be that they do the opposite and lower the overall standard of higher education [ARTICLE]
Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
The blackboard was the last ubiquitous classroom fixture
Technology is what can be called a “Small Fix” solution. Technology’s disruptive power does not necessarily require a Big Fix as a prerequisite. The right innovations—and the innovations they in turn spawn—could push the discussion in a very different direction. [ARTICLE]
Scientist are you ready for your future? On how to predict your h-index
Do you really want to see your future? It’s not about time machines neither time travel across black holes, it is just about scientometrics [ARTICLE]
Image source: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1868287,00.html
Are you afraid of MOOCsters? Maybe you should
A MOOC is massive open online course and it can be the future tool for teaching and learning but has a lot of potential drawbacks. Moshe Vardi provides an interesting discussion in the following [ARTICLE]
Image source: http://gbl55.wordpress.com/2011/03/08/cck11-man-this-mooc-is-something-else/
Big data on academic publishing
Mendeley Institutional Edition, announced on Monday, is a new data dashboard that takes all of the activity on the site and presents it to universities as a way of gaining deeper insights into what their researchers are doing.[ARTICLE]
Alessio Malizia 