Don’t wait for permission
Tim Bush,
The UK Schools Blog,
Aug 13, 2012
Calling MOOCs "too expensive", Ben Betts touts a new collaborative learning platform, Curatr and a new method, The Collaborative Learning Cycle. According to the website, "Curatr's Social Learning platform is a fraction of the cost when compared to developing hours of E-learning Courseware. And it is more effective, engaging and enjoyable to boot!" Basically, Curatr is a learning object browsing system (yes, it actually uses the word 'learning object'?) which allows instructors to feed contents into a course; users gain points by viewing the material;s and attempting to 'level up'. Yes, it's all very derivative - but that doesn't make nit wrong, per se. Betts argues, "I think adaptive learning as a trend is probably helping students. Systems like Knewton and Grockit are very clever and are starting to do the job of one-to-one tutors. But they remain expensive to build and maintain."
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