This document discusses updates on educational technology (EdTech) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). It summarizes that EdTech uses tools for e-learning like blogs, podcasts and wikis. MOOCs from universities like Coursera, edX and Udacity offer free online courses to millions of students worldwide. MOOCs are successful because they provide structured learning like traditional classes. The future of MOOCs is predicted to include more students from overseas, universities flipping classrooms, and credits being offered for passing MOOC assessments.

1. Updates on
#EdTech and #MOOC
8th December 2012
By: Akhlesh Agarwal
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2. EdTech
• Acronym of Education Technology connected with tools
for e-learning.
• Currently Edtech specialists are exploring such topics as
integrating Blogs, Podcasts, Wikis, and other types of
interactive technologies into the classroom to engage
students and enhance the learning experience.
• EdTech is a growing field because it is widely
acknowledged that today's students learn in different
ways than students in the past and that teachers need
to learn to reach their students in the most effective
way.
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3. Buzz on Teaching Learning Technologies

4. Biggest MOOCs
http://www.khanacademy.org/ https://www.coursera.org
With over 3,300 videos on Started by Andrew Ng and
everything from arithmetic to Daphne koller from Stanford
physics, finance, and history 208 courses, 2M students
and hundreds of skills to practice
https://www.edx.org/ http://www.udacity.com/
MIT + Harvard + Berkley + U Texas By Sebastian Thrun of Stanford AI
Currently 9 courses course fame
Currently 19 courses
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5. Latest updates
• Growing and growing.
• American council of
education(ACE) announces to
recognize some credits from
select MOOCs.
• Funding by gates foundation +
other funds
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/13/moocs-college-credit/1699671/

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7. Why are they so successful
• Discipline of scheduled classes instead of total
freedom of learning anytime anywhere.
• Cover all 5 parts of real school experience
– Teacher
– Content
– Collaboration
– Practice labs
– Assessments
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8. A win-win for everybody
Students
Students Educators
Educators
Free content. Satisfaction of teaching millions.
Learn from world’s best teachers. Worldwide visibility.
No entry test. Research on new pedagogical
Learn at your own pace. models.
MOOC Organizations Universities
Universities
MOOC Websites/organizations
Solution to faculty shortage: Allow
Funding by various foundations.
course credits to students who
Business model of charging attend classes from MOOC, and
employers or students who ask for pass the assessment by the
certificate. university.
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9. The future of MOOCs and their social impact
26 Nov 2012
Extracts…….
• Despite their pedagogical flaws, however, MOOCs
provide unprecedented access to quality content
for millions of learners.
• Consider the girl in Pakistan who’s too scared to
set foot in a classroom. Consider the teenager in
central Australia whose school has only one
teacher. Consider the young woman in Indonesia
who can’t afford college. Consider the boy in San
Francisco whose maths teacher simply doesn’t
teach very well.
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http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/the-future-of-moocs

10. Predictions
• The vast majority of students will be
overseas.
• Universities will flip their classrooms.
• The role of the teacher will evolve.
• The pedagogy of MOOCs will be enriched.
• Content providers will charge for assessment.
• Universities will offer credits for MOOCs.
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http://ryan2point0.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/the-future-of-moocs

11. Teacher Guides for Technology
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/
• Teacher's Guide on The Use of Blogs in Teaching
• Teacher's Guide on The Use of Wikis in Education
• Teacher's Guide on The Use of Skype in Education
• Teacher's Guide on The Use of iPad in Education
• Teacher's Guide on The Use of QR Codes in The Classroom
• Teacher's Comprehensive Guide on The Use of Social Networking in Education
• A Simple Guide to All That Teachers Need to Know about Digital Citizenship
• Teachers' Easy Guide to Social Learning
• Teacher's Definitive Guide to Google Search Skills
• Teacher's Guide on The Use of Games in Education
• Teacher's Guide to The Most Important Web Tools in Education
• The Entire Guide to Google Search Features for Teachers
http://iowaascd.org/index.php/members1/approaches-to-learning/teacher-guides-for-
technology
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12. If you are a bit baffled by technology, you are not alone
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13. akhlesh.agarwal@gmail.com
@akhlesha
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