[FRIAM] University Spotlight: See courses offered by UCSD, Case Western, UNC, Northwestern and more!
An update on the universities working with coursera. There are now 11 of them. List is below. http://blog.coursera.org/post/44688625384/university-spotlight-see-courses-offered-by-ucsd-case -- Owen - Case Western Reserve University https://www.coursera.org/casewestern: Case Western Reserve is a leading national urban research university committed to imagining and influencing the future. Their alumni includes the inventor of the Nike Air Sole, the developer of Gmail and founders of Fortune 500 companies. Already ranked as one of the nation’s best colleges, Case Western Reserve was recently listed by Huffington Posthttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/30/the-trendiest-colleges_n_887602.html?ref=fbsrc=sp#s299822title=Macalester_Trendiest_Quirky as one of the “trendiest colleges” in the States. - Northwestern University https://www.coursera.org/northwestern: Founded in 1851, Northwestern University is a private research and teaching university. The school combines innovative teaching and pioneering research in a highly collaborative environment that transcends traditional academic boundaries. The university’s twelve schools and colleges span disciplines from arts, sciences and communication to social policy, medicine, and music. - Penn State University https://www.coursera.org/psu: Penn State was chartered in 1855 as one of the nation’s first colleges of agricultural science. Today, the institution has a broader mission of teaching, research, and public service, with an emphasis on encouraging student leadership with a global perspective. Annual enrollment at the school’s University Park campus totals more than 44,000 undergraduate and graduate students, making it one of the largest universities in the United States. - Rutgers University https://www.coursera.org/rutgers: Rutgers is the sole university in the United States that is a colonial college, a land-grant institution, and a public university. Founded in 1766, the heart of the Rutgers mission is preparing students to become productive members of society and good citizens of the world. Rutgers teaches across the full educational spectrum: preschool to precollege; undergraduate to graduate and postdoctoral; and continuing education for professional and personal advancement. - UC San Diego https://www.coursera.org/ucsd: UC San Diego is an academic powerhouse and economic engine, recognized as one of the top 10 public universities by U.S. News and World Report. Innovation is central to the university, which takes pride in teaching students that knowledge isn’t just acquired in the classroom—life is their laboratory. The campus is committed to community engagement, public service and industry partnerships in order to advance the health and well-being of our region, state, nation and the world. - UC Santa Cruz https://www.coursera.org/ucsc: UC Santa Cruz is an outstanding public research university with a deep commitment to undergraduate education. The institution connects people and programs in unexpected ways while providing unparalleled opportunities for students to learn through hands-on experience. In its 45 years, UC Santa Cruz has earned national and international recognition for quality research and world-class teaching. - University of Colorado, Boulder https://www.coursera.org/boulder: CU-Boulder is a dynamic community of scholars and learners on one of the most spectacular college campuses in the country. As one of 34 U.S. public institutions in the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), the school has a proud tradition of academic excellence, with five Nobel laureates and more than 50 members of prestigious academic academies. - University of Rochester https://www.coursera.org/rochester: The University of Rochester is one of the nation’s leading private universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the university provides exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College, School of Arts and Sciences, and Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are complemented by its Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, School of Nursing, Eastman Institute for Oral Health, and the Memorial Art Gallery. - University of Minnesota, Twin Citieshttps://www.coursera.org/minnesota: The University of Minnesota is among the largest public research universities in the country, offering undergraduate, graduate, and professional students a multitude of opportunities for study and research. Located at the heart of one of the nation’s most vibrant, diverse metropolitan communities, students on the campuses in Minneapolis and St. Paul
Re: [FRIAM] Twitter
I thought the whole point of twitter was the noise. At least, that is what I put on my feed and how I use it - it is like the fleeting pleasure of being in a loud, crowded room. I find it indicative that most of Twitters pageviews come from external sites, being linked in from people's little embedded boxes listing their recent tweets. -Arlo James Barnes FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
[FRIAM] The Professors’ Big Stage
Interesting MOOC discussion .. starting with one of the best courses I've taken, Michael Sandel's political philosophy course Justice. I'm sending a scrape of the NYT page due to their limited access policy. The last sentence is the key: When outstanding becomes so easily available, average is over. Guess we all gotta get special to keep up! -- Owen The Professors’ Big StageBy THOMAS L. FRIEDMANhttp://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/thomaslfriedman/index.htmlPublished: March 5, 2013 421 Commentshttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/opinion/friedman-the-professors-big-stage.html?hp_r=0#commentsContainer - FACEBOOK - TWITTER - GOOGLE+ - SAVE - E-MAIL - SHARE - PRINThttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/opinion/friedman-the-professors-big-stage.html?hp_r=0pagewanted=print - REPRINTS - I just spent the last two days at a great conference convened by M.I.T. and Harvard on “Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education” — a k a “How can colleges charge $50,000 a year if my kid can learn it all free from massive open online courses?” Josh Haner/The New York Times Thomas L. Friedman Go to Columnist Page »http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/thomaslfriedman/index.html [image: Opinion Twitter Logo.] Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow@nytopinion https://twitter.com/#!/nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow @andyrNYThttps://twitter.com/#!/andyrNYT . Readers’ Comments Readers shared their thoughts on this article. - Read All Comments (421) »http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/opinion/friedman-the-professors-big-stage.html?hp_r=0#comments You may think this MOOCs revolution is hyped, but my driver in Boston disagrees. You see, I was picked up at Logan Airport by my old friend Michael Sandel, who teaches the famous Socratic, 1,000-student “Justice” course at Harvard, which is launching March 12 as the first humanities offering on the M.I.T.-Harvard edX online learning platform. When he met me at the airport I saw he was wearing some very colorful sneakers. “Where did you get those?” I asked. Well, Sandel explained, he had recently been in South Korea, where his Justice course has been translated into Korean and shown on national television. It has made him such a popular figure there that the Koreans asked him to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a professional baseball game — and gave him the colored shoes to boot! Yes, a Harvard philosopher was asked to throw out the first pitch in Korea because so many fans enjoy the way he helps them think through big moral dilemmas. Sandel had just lectured in Seoul in an outdoor amphitheater to 14,000 people, with audience participation. His online Justice lectures, with Chinese subtitles, have already had more than 20 million views on Chinese Web sites, which prompted The China Daily to note that “Sandel has the kind of popularity in China usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars and N.B.A. players.” O.K., not every professor will develop a global following, but the MOOCs revolution, which will go through many growing pains, is here and is real. These were my key take-aways from the conference: ¶Institutions of higher learning must move, as the historian Walter Russell Mead puts it, from a model of “time served” to a model of “stuff learned.” Because increasingly the world does not care what you know. Everything is on Google. The world only cares, and will only pay for, what you can do with what you know. And therefore it will not pay for a C+ in chemistry, just because your state college considers that a passing grade and was willing to give you a diploma that says so. We’re moving to a more competency-based world where there will be less interest in how you acquired the competency — in an online course, at a four-year-college or in a company-administered class — and more demand to prove that you mastered the competency. ¶Therefore, we have to get beyond the current system of information and delivery — the professorial “sage on the stage” and students taking notes, followed by a superficial assessment, to one in which students are asked and empowered to master more basic material online at their own pace, and the classroom becomes a place where the application of that knowledge can be honed through lab experiments and discussions with the professor. There seemed to be a strong consensus that this “blended model” combining online lectures with a teacher-led classroom experience was the ideal. Last fall, San Jose State used the online lectures and interactive exercises of M.I.T.’s introductory online Circuits and Electronics course. Students would watch the M.I.T. lectures and do the exercises at home, and then come to class, where the first 15 minutes were reserved for questions and answers with the San Jose State professor, and the last 45 were devoted to problem solving and discussion. Preliminary
Re: [FRIAM] University Spotlight: See courses offered by UCSD, Case Western, UNC, Northwestern and more!
On the coursera website, they say 62 universities have partnered with coursera. What am I missing ? Joe On 2013 01 05 8:55 AM, Owen Densmore wrote: An update on the universities working with coursera. There are now 11 of them. List is below. http://blog.coursera.org/post/44688625384/university-spotlight-see-courses-offered-by-ucsd-case -- Owen * Case Western Reserve University https://www.coursera.org/casewestern: Case Western Reserve is a leading national urban research university committed to imagining and influencing the future. Their alumni includes the inventor of the Nike Air Sole, the developer of Gmail and founders of Fortune 500 companies. Already ranked as one of the nation's best colleges, Case Western Reserve was recently listed by Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/30/the-trendiest-colleges_n_887602.html?ref=fbsrc=sp#s299822title=Macalester_Trendiest_Quirky as one of the trendiest colleges in the States. * Northwestern University https://www.coursera.org/northwestern: Founded in 1851, Northwestern University is a private research and teaching university. The school combines innovative teaching and pioneering research in a highly collaborative environment that transcends traditional academic boundaries. The university's twelve schools and colleges span disciplines from arts, sciences and communication to social policy, medicine, and music. * Penn State University https://www.coursera.org/psu: Penn State was chartered in 1855 as one of the nation's first colleges of agricultural science. Today, the institution has a broader mission of teaching, research, and public service, with an emphasis on encouraging student leadership with a global perspective. Annual enrollment at the school's University Park campus totals more than 44,000 undergraduate and graduate students, making it one of the largest universities in the United States. * Rutgers University https://www.coursera.org/rutgers: Rutgers is the sole university in the United States that is a colonial college, a land-grant institution, and a public university. Founded in 1766, the heart of the Rutgers mission is preparing students to become productive members of society and good citizens of the world. Rutgers teaches across the full educational spectrum: preschool to precollege; undergraduate to graduate and postdoctoral; and continuing education for professional and personal advancement. * UC San Diego https://www.coursera.org/ucsd: UC San Diego is an academic powerhouse and economic engine, recognized as one of the top 10 public universities by U.S. News and World Report. Innovation is central to the university, which takes pride in teaching students that knowledge isn't just acquired in the classroom---life is their laboratory. The campus is committed to community engagement, public service and industry partnerships in order to advance the health and well-being of our region, state, nation and the world. * UC Santa Cruz https://www.coursera.org/ucsc: UC Santa Cruz is an outstanding public research university with a deep commitment to undergraduate education. The institution connects people and programs in unexpected ways while providing unparalleled opportunities for students to learn through hands-on experience. In its 45 years, UC Santa Cruz has earned national and international recognition for quality research and world-class teaching. * University of Colorado, Boulder https://www.coursera.org/boulder: CU-Boulder is a dynamic community of scholars and learners on one of the most spectacular college campuses in the country. As one of 34 U.S. public institutions in the prestigious Association of American Universities (AAU), the school has a proud tradition of academic excellence, with five Nobel laureates and more than 50 members of prestigious academic academies. * University of Rochester https://www.coursera.org/rochester: The University of Rochester is one of the nation's leading private universities. Located in Rochester, N.Y., the university provides exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary study and close collaboration with faculty through its unique cluster-based curriculum. Its College, School of Arts and Sciences, and Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences are complemented by its Eastman School of Music, Simon School of Business, Warner School of Education, Laboratory for Laser Energetics, School of Medicine and Dentistry, School of Nursing, Eastman Institute for Oral Health, and the Memorial Art Gallery. * University of Minnesota, Twin Cities https://www.coursera.org/minnesota: The University of Minnesota is among the largest public research universities in the country, offering undergraduate,
Re: [FRIAM] The Professors’ Big Stage
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: increasingly the world does not care what you know. Everything is on Google. The world only cares, and will only pay for, what you can do with what you know. I think the most interesting line is, increasingly the world does not care what you know. Everything is on Google. The world only cares, and will only pay for, what you can do with what you know. *-- Russ Abbott* *_* *** Professor, Computer Science* * California State University, Los Angeles* * My paper on how the Fed can fix the economy: ssrn.com/abstract=1977688* * Google voice: 747-*999-5105 Google+: plus.google.com/114865618166480775623/ * vita: *sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ CS Wiki http://cs.calstatela.edu/wiki/ and the courses I teach *_* FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
Re: [FRIAM] The Professors' Big Stage
Owen, Something tells me Celebrity Professor Thing is not going to end well. It is the TEDdification of higher education. Vast numbers of silent people, sitting in the dark, watching somebody on a vast stage, in brilliant illumination, before a huge screen THINK FOR THEM. Now, you would be right to suspect some sour grapes on my part, a professor who always strutted a very small stage. I could never lecture like this. I just didnt have the gift. I could question, and offer quixotic examples, and connect what two students had said, or ask a third to make a connection. I could even, when I was at my very best, let long silences fall in the room until the students realized that what was important was what they were thinking, not what I was about to say. So of course I am inclined to think that that sort of retail activity is essential to education. What you describe here sounds more like the Nuremburg Rallies, than higher education. Nick From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2013 8:31 PM To: Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] The Professors Big Stage Interesting MOOC discussion .. starting with one of the best courses I've taken, Michael Sandel's political philosophy course Justice. I'm sending a scrape of the NYT page due to their limited access policy. The last sentence is the key: When outstanding becomes so easily available, average is over. Guess we all gotta get special to keep up! -- Owen The Professors Big Stage By http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/tho maslfriedman/index.html THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN Published: March 5, 2013 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/opinion/friedman-the-professors-big-stage .html?hp_r=0#commentsContainer 421 Comments ·FACEBOOK ·TWITTER ·GOOGLE+ ·SAVE ·E-MAIL ·SHARE · http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/opinion/friedman-the-professors-big-stage .html?hp_r=0pagewanted=print PRINT ·REPRINTS · I just spent the last two days at a great conference convened by M.I.T. and Harvard on Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education a k a How can colleges charge $50,000 a year if my kid can learn it all free from massive open online courses? http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/09/16/opinion/Friedman_New/Friedma n_New-articleInline.jpg Josh Haner/The New York Times Thomas L. Friedman http://topics.nytimes.com/top/opinion/editorialsandoped/oped/columnists/tho maslfriedman/index.html Go to Columnist Page » Opinion Twitter Logo. http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/opinion/Twitter_Avatars/NYT_Twitter_opi nion.png Connect With Us on Twitter For Op-Ed, follow https://twitter.com/#!/nytopinion @nytopinion and to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow https://twitter.com/#!/andyrNYT @andyrNYT. Readers Comments Readers shared their thoughts on this article. · http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/06/opinion/friedman-the-professors-big-stage .html?hp_r=0#comments Read All Comments (421) » You may think this MOOCs revolution is hyped, but my driver in Boston disagrees. You see, I was picked up at Logan Airport by my old friend Michael Sandel, who teaches the famous Socratic, 1,000-student Justice course at Harvard, which is launching March 12 as the first humanities offering on the M.I.T.-Harvard edX online learning platform. When he met me at the airport I saw he was wearing some very colorful sneakers. Where did you get those? I asked. Well, Sandel explained, he had recently been in South Korea, where his Justice course has been translated into Korean and shown on national television. It has made him such a popular figure there that the Koreans asked him to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a professional baseball game and gave him the colored shoes to boot! Yes, a Harvard philosopher was asked to throw out the first pitch in Korea because so many fans enjoy the way he helps them think through big moral dilemmas. Sandel had just lectured in Seoul in an outdoor amphitheater to 14,000 people, with audience participation. His online Justice lectures, with Chinese subtitles, have already had more than 20 million views on Chinese Web sites, which prompted The China Daily to note that Sandel has the kind of popularity in China usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars and N.B.A. players. O.K., not every professor will develop a global following, but the MOOCs revolution, which will go through many growing pains, is here and is real. These were my key take-aways from the conference: ¶Institutions of higher learning must move, as the historian Walter Russell Mead puts it, from a model of time served to a model of stuff learned. Because increasingly the world does not care what you know. Everything is on Google. The world only cares, and will only pay for, what you can do with what
