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Revolutionizing #education
▻https://hackernoon.com/revolutionizing-education-7c709c8b40c0?source=rss----3a8144eabfe3---4

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During summer break, I like to use #online classes to keep my programming skills up to par.I am a strong believer that if you don’t use your skills, you lose your skills.I am able to learn effectively in a classroom setting, and use online classes as a supplement. Many students, however, are unable to thrive in a typical brick and mortar classroom.Over winter break I redesigned a website for an online school, Greenways Academy. While working with their team I realized how beneficial online education is. There are many kids that would not get their high school diploma if there weren’t online alternatives.Kids that benefit from online education are not limited to students that are traveling the world, and competitive athletes. Many students with social anxieties and learning disabilities (...)

#schools #online-business

Tribune de Genève | « Une université est lancée pour les sans-papiers »
▻http://www.asile.ch/vivre-ensemble/2015/10/20/tribune-de-geneve-une-universite-est-lancee-pour-les-sans-papiers

Un étudiant allemand fonde une université qui permet aux jeunes sans-papiers ou demandeurs d’asile de suivre des études en informatique, ingénierie, économie, architecture et études interculturelles. En #Allemagne, pour les demandeurs d’asile le chemin est long avant de pouvoir trouver une place à l’université. À l’Université Kiron, pas besoin de carte d’identité ou de certificat [...]

#Articles_de_presse #Documentation #intégration

Online education can be good or cheap, but not both | Reihan Salam
▻http://blogs.reuters.com/reihan-salam/2013/07/26/online-education-can-be-good-or-cheap-but-not-both

Outsourcing this kind of teaching [basic introductory material] could in theory be an enormous boon to the bottom line of colleges and universities, as the most effective providers could spread their online courses across the country, sparing the need for large numbers of expensive faculty members. Indeed, Udacity’s entry-level courses were offered for $150 each, far less than the $620 San Jose State charges for traditional classroom-based courses.

The problem, however, is that between 56 percent and 76 percent of students who took the final exams ultimately failed them.

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True MOOCs that make almost no use of faculty labor will be very cheap to deliver, but one can easily imagine that they will be plagued by an attrition rate at least as high as what we see in today’s for-profit colleges. Blended online courses that stream lectures while also making use of face-to-face teaching assistants might have a success rate closer to land grant public institutions, where interaction with senior faculty is limited but there is a human support system for students. It should go without saying that the latter are going to be much more expensive than the former.

#mooc #université

me rappelle fortement
▻http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2000/04/NOBLE/13691

In a large, randomized experiment Bowen et al. found that students enrolled in an online/hybrid statistics course learned just as much as those taking a traditional class (noted earlier by Tyler). Perhaps even more importantly, Bowen et al. found that the online model was significantly less costly than the traditional model, some 36% to 57% less costly to produce than a course using a traditional lecture format. In other words, since outcomes were the same, online education increased productivity by 56% to 133%! Online education trumps the cost disease!

▻http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2013/04/online-education-trumps-the-cost-disease.html