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- How the 'hypernet' is changing the Internet [1 Update]
Topic: Thank you all
Ray Schroeder <raysch...@gmail.com> Aug 23 04:06PM -0500 ^
Hi to all-
The dust is settling on eduMOOC. Thank you all for you engagement and
participation. We are fully engaged in launching 350 online classes (and
many more using online tools) this week at the University of Illinois
Springfield, so we are a bit behind in posting the recordings of the panels.
But, we will make sure they are up soon.
The kind folks at education-portal posted another great article about the
MOOC, thanks to Polly Peterson for her fine report:
http://education-portal.com/articles/Where_Were_Going_We_Dont_Need_Classrooms.html
This has been a wonderful learning experience for all of us. We hope to
share what we learned broadly and to apply it in another MOOC in the coming
months.
Thank you again!
Best wishes for fulling learning experiences online.
ray
Ray Schroeder
Prof Emeritus/Director
Center for Online Learning, Research and Service
University of Illinois Springfield http://colrs.uis.uis.edu ~~
http://sites.google.com/site/rayschroeder
Osvaldo Rodriguez <cor...@yahoo.com> Aug 23 05:53AM -0700 ^
For those interested in Education and the developing world.
What Makes Educational Technology Successful in the Developing World? By David Risher
What
makes some technology so compelling and transformational that it
thrives in a school setting and others languish? We've all heard stories
of computers gathering dust in storage rooms while students and
teachers everywhere have taken to photocopiers, calculators and, of
course, cell phones.
One of my most surprising moments upon
entering a very basic primary school in rural Ayenhyah, Ghana - a room
with no electricity or running water - was being told that the school
had a no cell-phone policy. Students have such a hunger for
communication that they get their hands on a mobile phone by any means
necessary. They keep them charged using the full power of their
creativity, hooking them up to the small solar cell powering the
community's medical clinic or latching them onto a motorcycle battery.
Kids from Botswana to the U.S. to Zambia love to text.
Read the complete article on ReadWriteWeb here:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/what_makes_educational_technology_successful_in_th.php
Osvaldo
C. Osvaldo RODRIGUEZ
cor...@yahoo.com
Ines <inesca...@fibertel.com.ar> Aug 23 07:17AM -0700 ^
Hi Osvaldo,
A most interesting article, an eye-opener, these are memes, this is
viral. Children and adolescents have the same urges eveywhere in the
world.
Thank you for your contributions to EduMOOC, I´ve been mostly a lurker
but have been able to follow, reflect on and profit by all the
positive discussions going on.
Ines Cambiasso
inesca...@gmail.com
Osvaldo Rodriguez <cor...@yahoo.com> Aug 23 06:27AM -0700 ^
How the 'hypernet' is changing the Internet
At the Always On
Silicon Valley Innovation Summit, Elevation Partners' Roger McNamee
argues that the devices we attach to our belts are changing the
fundamental architecture of the Internet.
http://www.zdnet.com/videos/tech-news/vc-how-the-hypernet-is-changing-the-internet/6268521?tag=nl.e550
Osvaldo
C. Osvaldo RODRIGUEZ
cor...@yahoo.com