Education

Moocs as Learning Experiments

On March 12, I attended TEDxBayArea, hosted by Tatyana Kanzaveli. The invited speaker was Eren Bali, CEO and co-founder of Udemy, a startup that aims to democratize education by supplying a platform that enables anyone to teach and learn online. “Students” vote with their attention and wallets, providing feedback on which instructors, formats and content have the most value.

Post-session, I found myself noodling on a few questions:

  1. How might instructors develop online classes that satisfy learning styles that differ from their own bias?
  2. How might brick-and-mortar institutions (educational, government and corporate) learn from online engagement metrics to inform decisions on best topics, instructors and curriculum designs?
  3. As more people learn new subject matter using Massive Open Online Classes (MOOCs), how will businesses evolve to evaluate true mastery of the topic? Will degrees become less important?

 

Education  Posted by 25 Mar 2013 / 0 comments

Design for America | Stanford Studio

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Design for America uses student-led teams and human-centered design to tackle national challenges in Education, Health, our Economy and our Environment. I’m mentoring teams working out of the Stanford Studio.

I was asked to do a Mentor guest blog for Design for America. Click here to read it.

I believe innovation is a team sport. There are lots of opportunities to share design thinking wisdom and prototype feedback with participating students. If you are interested, and in the Bay Area, respond to this post and I’ll add you to our event list.

Cheers and happy holidays!

Erin

Education  Posted by 15 Dec 2012 / 0 comments