Competency based versus hour based assessment
the idea of badges - a badge represents a framework achieved
Gates Foundation
Hewlett Foundation
Western Governors University
UniversityNow
Current course at School of Ed
EDUC 288
this is a flipped classroom approach
school of ed going in this direction
The experience of students taking an online course and getting independent study units (example from Brigham Young)
US Department of Ed accreditation page
Two startups dealing with crowd-sourced assessments
Smarterer
Degreed
Can the model of Sakai, CourseWork, be scaled up for MOOC purposes?
Open Source
Scalable open source LMS is Canvas
Intellectual Property Issues
difficulty in moving faculty into public view conflated with criticism of the pedagogy of the MOOCs
Does Stanford think it is insulated from this upcoming wave of changes
If you would like to join the online/hybrid production group (media/tech/platform rather than pedagogy oriented) please contact:
Joe Benfield
benfield@stanford.edu
Michael Atkisson's blog post on the original MOOCS http://woknowing.wordpress.com/2011/08/28/comparing-moocs-mits-opencours... Michael's email: atkisson@stanford.edu
Stephen Arod Shirreffs' email is arod@stanford.edu
