Category Archives: Instructional Design

MOOCs, Courseware, and the Course as an Artifact

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Michael Feldstein

As Phil mentioned in his last post, he and I had the privilege of participating in a two-day ELI webinar on MOOCs. A majority of the speakers had been involved in implementing MOOCs at their institutions in one way or … Continue reading →

Posted in Higher Education, Instructional Design, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Tagged Adrian Sannier, Blended learning, Douglas Fisher, Howard Lurie, Jim Hendler, Massive open online course, MIT, Online Education, Pearson-PLC, San Jose State University, Textbook, Vanderbilt University | 25 Comments

A Taxonomy of Adaptive Analytics Strategies

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Michael Feldstein

I almost never quote a blog post in its entirety, but this one from Dan Meyer is so good that I just can’t bear to cut a single word: Stephanie Simon, reporting for Reuters on inBloom and SXSWedu: Does Johnny … Continue reading →

Posted in Instructional Design, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Tagged adaptive learning, Carnegie Mellon, Dan Meyer, Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Kurt VanLehn, learning analytics, Machine learning, OLI | 9 Comments

The OpenClass Vision: An Example

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Michael Feldstein

In my last post, I described a vision for combining elements of MOOC-like scale with a more traditional face-to-face classroom experience, as articulated by Pearson’s Adrian Sannier. (Full disclosure: Pearson is a client of MindWires Consulting.) A couple of months … Continue reading →

Posted in Higher Education, Instructional Design | Tagged Adrian Sannier, Ariel Anbar, Arizona State University, ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, Frank Drake, Josh Kim, Massive open online course, MOOC, Pearson-PLC, Phil Regier, Piazza, SmartSparrow, xMOOC | 2 Comments

OpenClass vs the MOOC

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Michael Feldstein

When Pearson’s OpenClass was announced about a year and a half ago, the natural question to ask was whether it would disrupt the LMS market. But that was then and this is now. (Full disclosure: Pearson is a client of … Continue reading →

Posted in Higher Education, Instructional Design, Tools, Toys, and Technology (Oh my!) | Tagged Adrian Sannier, Ariel Anbar, Massive open online course, MindWires Consulting, OpenClass, Pearson-PLC, Sebastian Thrun | 5 Comments

The Most Thorough Description (to date) of University Experience with MOOC

Posted on February 12, 2013 by Phil Hill

One of the benefits of participating in an interactive event, such as the recent ELI Webinar that Michael and I led yesterday, is that the learning goes both ways. During the webinar, one of the participants shared a link for … Continue reading →