BBC Arts Editor
Will Gompertz "interviews Daphne Koller &
Andrew Ng, co-founders of Coursera, the company that is revolutionising
education much in the same way that Amazon and iTunes turned publishing
and music on their heads. Daphne and Andrew have together created a
platform which allows anyone from anywhere in the world (who has
internet access) to attend lectures and classes given by the best
teachers in the world - for free. Universities as we know them may soon
be a thing of the past" (Radio 4 web site). See what you think by listening to this 30 min introduction to MOOC phenomenon.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036j3qc
Notes of the Learning and Teaching Forum of the Computing Division of CEM, University of Brighton. Comments on posts are welcome. If you'd like to contribute to the blog by writing your own posts, just contact Lyn Pemberton - lp22@bton.ac.uk - so that I can set you up.
Saturday, 6 July 2013
Sunday, 12 May 2013
Should we still be lecturing?
There's a perennial discussion of the value or otherwise of lectures. We depend heavily on lectures in Computing, but do they work as well as they should as a means of encouraging learning? Shouldn't we have moved on from this?
Read about Adrian Chown's workshop on the topic for the CLT: http://cltbrighton.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/makingthemostoflectures/
Read about Adrian Chown's workshop on the topic for the CLT: http://cltbrighton.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/makingthemostoflectures/
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