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How Changes Are Shaking Up Higher Ed

CLO Magazine

Business schools have adopted the case-study method as a step away from the academic lecture and toward the real world. Coursera offers 116 courses from Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, University of California — Berkeley, University of Michigan and Princeton. million online students.

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Learning Facts and Foundational Knowledge with Stories

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I am teaching a course on interactive elearning design at the University of California, Irvine and a nagging question has surfaced. Feynman Lectures – Boat Time Richard Feynman, Nobel Laureate in Physics, used real-life examples to state his problems. This is similar to the very familiar illustration of “Newton’s apple” on gravity.

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Corporate Classrooms: Adapting to change

CLO Magazine

Apple has hired several high-profile academics and thinkers to teach at its development center, Apple University. A more traditional model of teaching might require an instructor to prepare a lecture or presentation.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

In Defense of Powerpoint - Free as in Freedom , September 5, 2010 In the past couple of years that I’ve had a Mac, a lot of people I’ve spoken to about presentation skills have remarked to me, “Oh, but you have Apple Keynote for presentations. Why are lectures so improbably still ‘alive’?&#. They all go together.