Hi Christoph, Thanks for sharing I'm already taking the Gamification course from U. Pennsylvania at coursera.org ( https://www.coursera.org/course/gamification ) but just enrolled in this one as well, who knows what will come out of all this online learning :-) Regards, Sebastian
On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 09:38:14 +0200 Christoph Derndorfer <e0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just saw that one of Stanford's online courses for the next term is > called "Designing A New Learning Environment" ( > http://venture-lab.org/education). The description sounds quite interesting > so I'll probably enroll in it. (Though given my past experiences with > online courses I'll probably drop out of it within a few weeks;-): > > "What constitutes learning in the 21st century? Should education be based > on delivering contents and getting students to memorize facts? Should > reading, watching, and taking exams be part of all learning? Should there > be more interactive, collaborative, and constructive learning activities > integrating mobile and social networking tools of today? Should new > training and learning activities be more fun and game-like? > > In this course, we discuss and answer these questions." > > Cheers, > Christoph > > -- > Christoph Derndorfer > > volunteer, OLPC (Austria) [www.olpc.at] > editor, OLPC News [www.olpcnews.com] > contributor, TechnikBasteln [www.technikbasteln.net] > > e-mail: christ...@derndorfer.eu -- Sebastian Silva <sebast...@somosazucar.org> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep