Why Go Online? External Factors Driving the Big Push
1. Why Go Online?
External Factors Affecting the Big Push to Go Online!
By Dr. James May
Valencia College
Presentation for Softchalk Innovator Series
Teaching F2F, Blended & Online – Week Two: Institutional Concerns
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3. What are the driving forces?
Michael Olmert, Smithsonian Book of Books (Smithsonian Institution, 1992)
4. What are the driving forces?
Image shared with me by Kyle Bowen at Perdue University
5. What are the driving forces?
Image screen captured from http://teachertricks.org
6. What are the driving forces?
S The Open World
S Open APIs
S Open Content & Courseware
S Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
S Flipped Classrooms
S Flip Teaching, Inverted Classrooms, Reverse Classrooms,
Backwards Teaching Etc.
S Video On-Demand Learning
7. What Are Open APIs?
S API stands for Application Programming Interface, and
simply put, it refers to sets of technologies that allow
websites to interact with each other.
8. What is Open Content
S Open Courseware Consortium http://www.ocwconsortium.org/
9. What is Open Content
S MIT Open Courseware http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
10. What is Open Content
S Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org/
11. What are MOOCs
S Massively Open Online Courses
S Fall 2011 about 160,000 people signed up for Sebastion Thrun and
Peter Norvig’s Artificial Intellegence Course at Stanford University
S Peter Norvig’s TED Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYclUdcsdeo
S Google’s upcoming Free MOOC
http://www.google.com/insidesearch/landing/powersearching.html
13. What are the driving forces?
S The Open World
S Open APIs
S Open Content & Courseware
S Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
S Flipped Classrooms
S Flip Teaching, Inverted Classrooms, Reverse Classrooms,
Backwards Teaching Etc.
S Video On-Demand Learning
14. So Why Flip My Classroom
Flipped Classrooms are also known as…Flip Teaching - Inverted
Classrooms - Reverse Classrooms - Backwards Teaching - Etc.
Often considered flipped class because what is traditionally
considered in class activities (i.e. "lecture" is done at home via
teacher-created or teacher shared videos) and what used to be
homework (assigned problems) is now done in class under the
mentorship of the instructor.
16. So Why Flip My Classroom
Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education
(Chickering & Gamson)
1. Encourage Contact Between Students and Faculty
2. Develop Cooperation Among Students
3. Uses Active Learning
4. Gives Prompt Feedback
5. Emphasizes Time on Task
6. Communicate High Expectations
7. Respects Diverse Talents and Ways of Learning
I like to think of open APIs as the gasoline on the Web 2.0 ExplosionTwitter (age 6 has 140 million users) broke the million registered app mark in July 2011 built on its API by more than 750,000 developersAs of yesterday, facebook (age 8 has 900 million) reported an average number of 20 million apps installed on their platform daily