Stories to TEL - Peter B. Sloep

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76205713138989109982026-07-11T21:26:35.992+02:00Stories to TEL - Peter B. SloepThis is my professional website. The various tabs detail my work as an academic and consultant. The website's point of entry is my blog on Technology Enhanced Learning.Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-23991308813026697582014-10-10T13:57:00.003+02:002020-03-20T16:27:37.362+01:00MOOCs, every letter is negotiable

Massive Open Online Courses have put online education on the agendas of the boards of many universities. And that cannot be a bad thing. For too long universities have hand-cuffed innovation by ignoring the opportunities offered by the information and social webs that the Internet has woven. What is at stake here is the quality of the educational experience. And the big question is whether MOOCs

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-91707984719045233462014-05-02T15:22:00.000+02:002014-05-02T15:22:17.465+02:00All my scoops in February, March and April 2014

As a service to my scoop.it follwers and readers, a blog post of mine containing the publication date, title, author and source of my scoops in February, March and April 2014. This will be the last overview a will be publishing this way, at least that is my intention. I will try out the monthly newsletter that Scoop.it generates automatically. Don't know yet if and how that exactly works,

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-28756625482291097322014-04-21T21:59:00.002+02:002014-04-21T22:03:02.385+02:00Who does what in a Massive Open Online Course? Comments on an article in the Communications of the ACM

In this blog post I look in some detail at an article* that analyses the behaviour of some 150,000 registrants for the inaugural edX course — 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics, which was offered in the spring of 2012. What makes the article interesting is that the analysis in it is based on the log files for the course, constituting an exemplary case of the application of learning analytics in

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-73883499997521667942014-03-04T16:28:00.001+01:002014-03-04T16:28:42.900+01:00All my scoops from August 2013 until February 2014| Peter Sloep

As a service to my scoop.it follwers and readers, a blog post of mine containing the publication date, title, author and source of my scoops since July, 2013 (I have been lax, I know ...) 21-08-2013 The attack of the MOOCs - The Economist, Higher Education 27-08-2013 Money Models for MOOCs Dellarocas & Van Alstyn Communications of the ACM 15-09-2013

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-61152526450055522222014-02-12T23:13:00.000+01:002014-02-12T23:13:16.595+01:00European MOOCs Stakeholder Summit 2014 - EMOOCs 2014

Today, the second European stakeholder summit on MOOCs - EMOOCs 2014 - ended. It lasted two days and a half days and was held at the Ecole Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne, which is situated  on the shores of pretty Lac Léman, Switzerland. Reportedly, it was attended by 450 delegates, also from countries outside Europe. Apart from several keynotes, the conference featured four tracks of

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-91657591978602232552013-11-17T18:37:00.001+01:002014-10-10T14:19:31.661+02:00MOOCs democratising education? I am not so sure!

There are many ways to look at MOOCs, but my preferred way is to regard them as one particular design for a technology-enhanced environment for learning. However, they are not just some random kind but one that has dominated the educational headlines for over a year now. Their notoriety comes, I surmise, from their association with elite or tier-one universities in the USA and the massive

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-54417041252254215172013-09-15T15:46:00.002+02:002014-05-09T19:21:01.004+02:00Learning in networks and in communities of practice

In the context of an article on MOOCs I co-author, one of the reviewers raised the question of how networks and communities, in particular networks for learning and communities of practice, are different from each other. Without tracing the complex history of learning in social networks, one can safely say that all of it is rooted in the pioneering work on social learning done by such people

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-84705596992614657792013-07-29T19:02:00.000+02:002013-07-30T11:08:53.601+02:00All my scoops in July 2013 | Peter Sloep

As a service to my scoop.it follwers and readers, a blog post of mine containing the publication date, title, author and source of my s6 scoops in July, 2013. 02-07-2013 On the MOOC Challenge to Traditional Higher Education Jonathan Marks  Commentary Magazine 04-07-2013 MOOCs in Europe, an overview Pierre Dillenbourg slides 05-07-2013 How to

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-36526576281843824382013-07-05T16:15:00.000+02:002013-07-05T16:15:21.690+02:00How to value the merits and demerits of MOOCs?

MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses over the last year have dominated the headlines, in blogs and periodicals on higher education and educational technology (cf. my collection of scoops). This is particularly so in the USA but increasingly also in the rest of the world. Serious, scholarly journals and their publishers are following suit. Publisher MaryAnn Liebert for instance is about to launch

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-22008579684083165332013-07-01T21:15:00.002+02:002013-07-29T19:11:42.919+02:00All my scoops in June 2013 | Peter Sloep

As a service to my scoop.it followers and readers, a blog post of mine containing the publication date, title, author and source of my 16  scoops in June, 2013. 01-06-2013 A year of content curation with Scoop.it Peter Sloep Stories to TEL, blog 02-06-2013 The MOOC as Three Kinds of Learning Management System Justin Reich  EdTech Researcher, blog 05-05-2013

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-43453387100892047672013-06-01T14:42:00.000+02:002013-06-01T14:47:55.299+02:00A year of content curation with scoop.it

May 4th, 2012 I decided to collect and share interesting tidbits on networked learning and learning networks and use Scoop.it as my content curation conduit. A year and 379 posts later,  I have noticed that content curation with Scoop.it has taken an important place in my academic life. As an academic, you want your work to be noticed by your fellow academics and, if at all

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-61737173387067253062013-05-31T12:53:00.001+02:002013-05-31T12:53:04.120+02:00All my scoops in May 2013 | Peter Sloep

As a service to my scoop.it followers and readers, a blog post of mine containing the publication date, title, author and source of my 2  scoops in May, 2013. This is a record low, I know, but I've got a good excuse ;-) 05/07/2013 The pedagogical foundations of massive open online courses David G. Glance, Martin Forsey & Miles Riley First Monday 31/05/2013

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-47643750484584411992013-05-07T10:30:00.003+02:002013-05-07T10:30:23.739+02:00All my scoops in April 2013 | Peter Sloep

As a service to my scoop.it followers and readers, a blog post of mine containing the publication date, title, author and source of my 19  scoops in April, 2013.  02-04-2023 MOOC Manifesto - Conecta 13 03-03-2013 Stanford teams up with edX Ry Rivard  Inside Higher Ed  04-03-2013 Fight the MOOC-opalypse! Fred Martin

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-58973533866324700732013-04-02T12:22:00.002+02:002013-04-02T12:22:44.268+02:00All my scoops on 'Networked learning - MOOCs and more' in March 2013

The second instalment of my overview of scoops. This time of the month March, in which I made a total of 28 scoops. 04-03-2013 How to Evaluate a MOOC Sara Goldrick-Rab The Education Optimists blog 04-03-2013 Siemens' "Connectivism" and faith in management Ted O'Neill ELT and e-Learning Professional blog 05-03-2013 Essays on the flaws of peer grading in

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-41751625849760692912013-03-10T23:43:00.002+01:002013-03-25T15:15:23.664+01:00Communities of Learning and the effect of existing hierarchies

Last week (March 1, 2013) , I had the honour of  being asked to sit in on a PhD defence committee. The thesis was about the impact existing hierarchies have on the learning that goes on in communities of learning. I very much enjoyed participating since the topic of communities of learning is close to my heart and to my own research on networked learning. Martin Rehm's research was carried

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-60091039070192416932013-03-04T20:38:00.001+01:002013-03-10T13:50:41.812+01:00Scoops on 'Networked learning - MOOCs and more' in February 2013

This month, I made a total of 43 scoops of topics related to networked learning. As a service to the readers of these scoops and as a means to maintain an overview for myself, below you'll find a list of all the scoops, with their publication date, title, author, source and permanent url (to my post, that is). Not sure whether there will be more instalments, but anyway, here's the first.

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-16205999753984865142013-02-24T16:51:00.000+01:002014-02-02T13:27:05.579+01:00What responsibilities should MOOC platforms assume?

Money is an important consideration in education. For schools on public funding, it comes in the form of costs, which should be kept low in order to balance the budget. For MOOC providers such as Coursera and Udacity, it comes in the form of revenue, which should be maximised in order to keep the venture capital firms happy that have seeded them with start-up capital. On the matter of the need to

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-71728313911808915582013-01-18T17:02:00.000+01:002013-07-17T21:55:55.985+02:00MOOCs, arguments at cross purposes

This post is about two articles that may serve as examplars of two kinds of arguments that have often been advanced with respect to MOOCs. They are about the question of whether society at large should reject or embrace MOOCs as a form of online learning.   The first article I scooped on my networked learning - learning networks Scoop.it site the other day. It is written by Jennifer Cost

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-56534784779883825482013-01-03T23:21:00.000+01:002013-01-16T18:28:28.525+01:00MOOCs, what about them? Some moral considerations

In my previous blog post I discussed the question of whether we should approve of MOOCs from a normative point of view. Do MOOCs contribute in any way to an educational system which is better from a normative point of view? I argued that I had a hard time to believe they would, the reason being that they are run by private companies, funded by venture capital who are in it for the money. So MOOCs

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-87520555067600198352012-11-27T01:10:00.000+01:002013-07-17T21:39:24.474+02:00MOOCs, what about them?

MOOCs have caught the public eye and not just those of education professionals. The reason is that potentially they change the game of higher education. Not just because some claim they will (as does Sebastian Thrun of Udacity) but also because many fear or predict they will. So, engaging in ongoing debate about them is necessary, to steer their future development and to be prepared for their

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-74136051714229824532012-11-04T01:59:00.002+01:002012-11-04T02:45:27.789+01:00About 'setting up' a learning network

Kinds of learning networks  Learning networks come in a variety of different kinds. First, there is the personal variety, the personal learning network or PLN, which the individual person sets up and maintains, and provides him or her with  a view of or a lens on the outside world (cf. Rajagopal et al., 2012). In social network analysis, this is called an ego network for the obvious

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-35045172161020757102012-10-05T18:01:00.001+02:002013-06-27T12:30:51.795+02:00How to improve teaching with technologies?

Today, I had the privilege to participate in a seminar by Katie Vale. The seminar was organised at the Caledonian Academy in the context of the Technology Enhanced Professional Learning Special Interest Group (TEPL-SIG). At Harvard, Katie heads the Academic Technology Services unit, a group of some 13 people who reach out to faculty and help them improve the quality of their courses. 13 may sound

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-64760073922128769062012-09-30T23:33:00.003+02:002012-10-01T00:06:56.664+02:00What's learning? A way to approach the question, in response to Steve Wheeler

Preliminaries The other day, Steve Wheeler in his blog asked the question What is learning? and invited his readers to comment. To explain why he asks this question, he mentions the existing, bewildering variety of learning theories - including Connectivism, discusses that learning needs not be fun necessarily, quotes Dewey in support, and finally wonders if learning has changed

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-85686636790133856502012-09-06T22:59:00.000+02:002012-10-24T16:20:26.473+02:00Reaction to two comments on 'about formal and informal learning'

This blog post is a reaction to comments by Jay and Nick to my original post on formal and informal learning. Thank you for your reactions, as they helped me to refine and extend my thinking on the issue. I knew I was getting into murky waters and your reactions pay testimony to that. You raise a lot of issues in your reactions and consequently there is a lot to be said in response to that.

Peter B. Sloephttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02563604068247115182noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7620571313898910998.post-80509424813713093242012-08-31T18:42:00.000+02:002013-07-23T22:06:44.529+02:00About formal and informal (non-formal) learning

Discussions abound about how to properly differentiate formal and informal learning. To make things even more complicated, some throw in the notion of non-formal learning as a further refinement. On the one hand, the distinction has been made loosely to differentiate between learning in schools (formal) and all the other learning (informal). As long as you don't think to deeply, this works.

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