Today’s guest post comes from Pamela Pollock, the Bok Center’s Instructional Specialist for International Teaching Fellows. What is the future for universities, given the shift to thinking more seriously about the potential for online learning? The creation of EdX and all this talk about flipped classrooms are just the beginning. Everyone is talking and speculating……
On May 23 the Bok Center hosted a discussions with Phil Soffer, VP of Operations for Piazza, and science faculty and preceptors. We asked Phil to write a guest blog post about the conversation; here are his thoughts on best practices for use of interactive social media in college courses. Phil’s post gives some pedagogically…
Open Culture has compiled a list of 425 courses at top universities that are available online, for free, in audio or video format. The courses are organized by subject, with links throughout to free online textbooks, and the list includes 24 Harvard courses. Get cracking!
There has been a lot of buzz lately about the educational uses of iPads and iTunes U. Additionally, Harvard has been making a few of its popular courses available for download at iTunes U over the past year. Recently, we learned that Stat 110, taught by Professor Joe Blitzstein, is one of the new courses that is…
The Chronicle of Higher Education has a special issue out on online education, well worth reading in full. (In a sign that online is here to stay, Idaho became the first state to require credits earned online for a high school diploma.) Many of the articles in the special issue discuss ways in which online education does…
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