TED演讲:为什么MOOC仍然重要(8)

Learners are telling us that they go to bed at night dreaming of the green check mark. 学习者告诉我们,他们晚上上床睡觉都做着绿色对号的梦。 In fact, one of our learners who took the circuits course early last year, 事实上,有一名学习者去年年初学习了那门电路课程, he then went on to take a software course from Berkeley at the end of the year, 接着,他就在同年...

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TED演讲:为什么MOOC仍然重要(5)

But what if we embraced technology, embraced the millennial generation’s natural predilections, 但如果我们使用在线技术,接受千禧一代天生的优待, and really think about creating these online technologies, blend them into their lives. 真正去创建这些在线技术,将其融入他们的生活,会怎样呢? So here’s what we can do. So rather than driving our kids into a...

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TED演讲:为什么MOOC仍然重要(3)

So at edX and a number of other organizations, we are applying these technologies to education through MOOCs to really increase access to education. 所以在edX网站和一些其他的组织我们将这些技术应用于教育通过MOOCs,真正增加人们受教育的机会。 And you heard of this example, where, when we launched our very first course 大家应听说过这个事例,当时我们推出了第一档课程, ...

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TED演讲:为什么MOOC仍然重要(4)

I call it teen-lish. It’s a digital language. It’s got two sounds: a grunt and a silence. 我称之为少年语言。它是一种数字式的语言。它有两种声音:咕哝声和沉默。 “Honey, come over for dinner.” “Hmm.” “Did you hear me?” Silence. “Can you listen to me?” “Hmm.” “亲爱的,过来吃饭”“嗯”“听见我说的话了吗...

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TED演讲:为什么MOOC仍然重要(10)

It can also solve a practical problem of MOOCs, the business aspect. 它也能解决大规模网络公开课在其商业方面的实际问题。 We can also license these MOOC courses to other universities, 我们还可以授权这些网络公开课面向其他的大学, and therein lies a revenue model for MOOCs, where the university that licenses it with the professor 其中蕴藏着MOOCs的收益模式,那些授...

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TED演讲:为什么MOOC仍然重要(2)

Everything else has changed around us. You know, from healthcare to transportation, everything is different, but education hasn’t changed. 生活中一切其他的事物都在改变。从医疗业到运输业一切都有所变化,但是教育领域仍保持原样。 It’s also been a real issue in terms of access. So what you see here is not a rock concert. 在是否有机会接受教育上,这也是个切实...

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TED演讲:为什么MOOC仍然重要(9)

Let me tell you a story. When we did our circuits course for the 155,000 students, 给大家讲一个故事。当我们的电路课程要为那155,000的学生上线时, I didn’t sleep for three nights leading up to the launch of the course. 为了引领课程上线,我连着三个晚上没睡觉。 I told my TAs, okay, 24/7, we’re going to be up monitoring the forum, answering questions. ...

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TED演讲:为什么MOOC仍然重要(7)

And this is a form of learning called active learning, 这是一种学习形式叫做主动学习, and really promoted by a very early paper, in 1972, by Craik and Lockhart, where they said and discovered that learning and retention 早期文件显示,这种学习方法在1972年经由克雷克和洛克哈特推行而兴起他们提出并发现学习和持久记忆 really relates strongly to the depth of mental proc...

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TED演讲:为什么MOOC仍然重要(1)

I’d like to reimagine education. The last year has seen the invention of a new four-letter word. 我想要重新定义教育。去年出现了一个新的四字单词。 It starts with an M. MOOC: massive open online courses. 以M开头的缩写词MOOC:大规模网络公开课。 Many organizations are offering these online courses to students all over the world, in the millions, for free. ...

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TED演讲:为什么MOOC仍然重要(6)

We were also doing other pilots. So we did a pilot experimental blended courses, working with San Jose State University in California, 我们也在做其他的试验。我们做了一个试验性的混合实验课程,再一次关于电路与电子技术 again, with the circuits and electronics course. You’ll hear that a lot. That course has become sort of like our petri dish of learning. 同加利福...

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