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  1. click to bbc 4 - 30 minute radio interview with coursera founders made July 2013
  2. discuss bbc interview

1.0 Q When is www.coursera.org (content from over 50 worldwide universities)  uniquely best for youth? A When some of a course's 9 minute audio training modules viralise around millions of youth who then collaborate round job creation- or progressing investments in millennium goals from the bottom up

-see eg MOOCyunus as several thousand entrepreneurs at Skoll 10th world championship cheering such an idea

 

reference- search how both daphne koller as designer of coursera and sal khan as designer of khanacademy see the 9 minute training module as the most impactful feature the world of education has ever been blessed to use

 

 

1.1 coursera has many features that may help to start up such a viralisation- also the fact that several hundreds of thousand people may be action learning live around a best for world's coursera makes these feature possibilities very different from uses you may heave encountered where barely any audience is coming back again and again

2.0 students of coursera are asked to sign a content secrecy pledge so as not to spoil the course's surprise impact on future course-takers - regarding open value multipliers, this is a relative weakness of coursera compared with khanacademy's 24/7 free learning access but it does help to ensure that you get that year's most motivated youth signing up-

 

2.1 Secrecy pledges also make it difficult to discuss what a best for youth coursera looks like - we hope that Jeff Borland at University of Melbourne doesn't mind us showing this mock up

 

.. Searching who sees mooc free university as humanity's greatest ever collaboration project....

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Platforms : koller  NG : Khan, Berners Lee

Entrepreneurial Revolution Content partners : BRAC , Soros

Investors in humanity Soros, Skoll, Barrett, Butler-Sloss,

Investors in brands that could value freeing their sectir's most sustainable purpose- Mackey, head of Tata, Jack Ma, Anderson (deceased), Riboud

Lifelong pro-youth educators: Gandhi Family, Blecher,

Other friends of Norman Macrae Remembrance Parties: Japan Ambassadors, JICA

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3MOCK-up of a best for youth Coursera

The picture below comprises to the main features students can linkin while the course is alive- also part of a post I made to the forum- and 3 ads to open learning I would love to post if future coursera ever take ads that support youth open education revolution

 

3.1 Below we guide to you each of the features - discussing both the way coursera expects them to be used and more massive collaboration job creating experiments youth may want to free

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These are 9 standard components of coursera

The middle one "video lecture" is pivotal once the course goes live for typically a period of 8 weeks which form quite strict schedule. Each week will typically contain just over an hour's video content comprised of maximum 9 minute modules ...each modules has a parallel transcript or slide version. When we say videos- the typical format is mainly audio, with either the presenter or the slides he is guiding you through on the screen. It really is the audio that matters, as we also see more explicitly in the platform designed into Khanacademy. In other words if we can search out leaders who are prepared to make 9 minute audios that millions of youth need to interact around, THEN we can always edit in any visual content. On coursera the audio/video permits a lecturer to program an intermission- used to pose a multiple choice question to check whether the student is listening

 

Typically the top button announcement section (combined with next 2 buttons how to study course and syllabus) offer a roadmap of the course and clarify exact schedule of all the course's deadlines which often include weekly tests (usually multichoice quizzes,) and as you can see in the bottom button the occasional peer assessment. It has been found that if a presenter is going to ask 10000 students to write a short essay, peer assessment by 3 random peers is an adequate way of getting the marking done

 


ALUMNI EXPERIENCE
Until you have experienced it in the Coursera context, you are unlikely to be able to imagine how powerful discussion forums are when themed week by week on content hundreds of thousands of young minds may be simultaneously studying. In 17 years on the internet, I haven't seen discussion forums stay so deeply on content nor be a space where you might meet alumn that your work may wish to partner. Of course it can depend on whether the main presenter is interested too. This doesn't mean that he needs to follow every discussion but it makes a heck of a difference if the lecturer does pop in a few of the discussions each week - even better if he or she thanks the students for actually learning from them too. After all the best course in the world - as we define it - mobilises youth to create jobs or sustain extraordinary collaborations. If that total youth power isn't cherished by the lecturer to be more valuable than he alone is as an individual, then I am not sure I understand why that person wants to be a courser lecturer.

Some courses add outside spaces such as a linkedin group or twitter to offer a way to ensure that some of the knowledge and alumn solidarity collaboratively multiplied during the 8 week course stays on the net for the rest of the year. Ultimately we advise practotioers whose organisation is open sourcing best for youth world action maps to be present both in coursera and khanacasdemy - and by focusing on your 9 minute audio module this can be done

It is worth continuously debating what are the alternative advantages of being live for one 8-week mass class a year and being live all the time- as well as where do the 2 forms need to partner each other if worldwide youth is to gain maximally from MOOC - Massive, Open, Onlice - and the 3C's collaboration, course and curriculum. For example while we are not aware of a case yet, a cousrea on youyth entrepreneurship could be timed to also be the world's number 1 student competition and guest judges could be brought in for that part of the course including investors and those with the most inspirational youth pulling power (such as dr Muhammad Yunus)

so far the only open education models to have massively scaled start by being configured around 9 minute mainly audio training modules - however these are connected with very different add on experiences - khan academy is always there and offers unlimted online eercises-

 

coursera markets each course a s a typically once a year event - so maximizing live simultaneous audiences and its design builds social features

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notes from bbc radio interview with koller and Ng july 2013

koller believes within 5 years coursera we will have a good enough course on anything people might want to learn

=cost basis of coursera currently free but with pay for version to get a certificate (cost about $60)

note coursera is a for profit model - currently with 22 million dolar of venture capital investment coordinated by John Doerr associates

 

coursera has built technology scape so that it can serve 100000 students on same online course and expects to get to larger numbers

 

coursera is proud of its peer review technology making it possible for 100000 students to grade each other's essays- this supplements the weekly multi-choice tests that also make up course grades

 

points koller enjoys debating

 

1 action learning based instruction gives students more real understanding than traditionaluniersity models

 

in some developing countries like india to cater for planned expansion of tertiary students they would need to build 10000? universities; moreover in developing countries many universities already cant get the quality staff they want - all reasons why online education may not be a choice but a necessity in some nations' futures

as bbc radio interviewer added - the past of one job or even one career for life doesn't look like being the future- maybe the model of expecting students only to go to universities once when they are young and can least afford it is also unsustainable- commentator also mentioned that UK's open university will be launching an online platform future learning soon

in parallel to coursera there is the open courseware consortium http://www.ocwconsortium.org/en/courses/ocwsites

End announcement from world best course leader Jeff Borland

Hi Generating the Wealth of Nation MOOCers,

Congratulations to those of you who have now completed all the assessment requirements. It will take us a little time to process and check the marks, and then we will be able to send out the Statements of Accomplishment. 

As we reach the end of the course, I thought you might be interested to know some statistics on participation and outcomes. At the end of last week, out of the 28,922 enrolments in Generating the Wealth of Nations, 12,197 people had actually participated in the course at some stage, and in the last week 1,935 had been active. There had been 164,946 viewings of individual lecture videos. On the Discussion Forum there were 423 threads, 2370 posts and 1413 comments. About 700 of you completed the first assessment (average grade was 2.86), and about 500 the second assessment (average grade 3.09). These averages indicate that the standard of assessment work submitted has been high. 

I wanted to reiterate my message from the final section of lecture 11 by saying thanks to all of you who have participated in the course in some way – be it viewing the lecture videos, submitting the assessments and peer reviews, or posting on the Discussion Forum. I especially appreciate the time that so many of you have committed to the Discussion Forum – Raising and answering questions; Suggesting extra resources; Debating the causes of economic development. This has made the course a much richer learning experience for everyone. Everyone, of course, includes me. The Princeton sociology Professor Mitch Duneier commented on his MOOC that ‘…Within three weeks I had received more feedback on my sociological ideas than I had in a career of teaching…’. My experience has been the same. Not only have I come away from the course with pages and pages of notes on new ways to think about the history of economic development, there have also been many valuable suggestions on extra references and resources, and on aspects of the course such as assessment and presentation. I’m grateful for this feedback, and for the constructive approach you’ve taken to giving it. More generally, the whole team who put together Generating the Wealth of Nations have been delighted to see the positive comments about the course in recent weeks – Thanks to everyone for your kind words.

This is the end of the course, however, I hope that it’s just the beginning (or a continuation) of your learning on the history of economic development. So from all of the team, we wish you many happy years of MOOCing in the future.

All the best, Jeff Borland

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KERRY GLASGOWIS HUMANITY'S LAST BEST CHANCE - Join search for Sustainaabilty's Curricula

101ways-generation.docx 101 ways education can save the world WHAT IF WE DESIGNED LIFELONG LIVELIHOOD LOEARNING SO THAT so that teachers & students, parent & communities were empowered to be ahead of 100 times more tech rather than the remnants of a system that puts macihnes and their exhausts ahead of human life and nature's renewal 2016 is arguably the first time thet educatirs became front and centre to the question that Von neummn asked journalist to mediate back in 1951- what goods will peoples do with 100 times more tech per decade? It appears that while multilaterals like the Un got used in soundbite and twittering ages to claim they valued rifghts & inclusion, pubblic goods & safety, they fotgot theirUN tech twin in Genva has been practising global connectivity since 1865, that dellow Goats of V neumnn has chiared Intellectual Cooperation in the 1920s which pervesrely became the quasi trade union Unesco- it took Abedian inspired educations in 2016 ro reunite ed and tecah as well as health and trade ; 7 decades of the UN not valuing Numenn's question at its core is quite late, but if we dare graviate UN2 aeound this digital coperation question now we give the younger half if the world a chnace especially as a billion poorest women have been synchronised to deep community human development since 1970

Dear Robert - you kindly asked for a short email so that you could see if there is a CGTN anchor in east coast who might confidentially share views with my expectation of how only Asian young women cultural movements (parenting and community depth but amplified by transparent tech in life shaping markets eg health, food, nature..) can return sustainability to all of us
three of my father's main surveys in The Economist 1962-1977 explain imo where future history will take us (and so why younger half of world need friendship/sustainable adaptation with Chinese youth -both on mainland and diaspora)
 1962 consider japan approved by JF Kennedy: argued good news - 2 new economic models were emerging through japan korea south and taiwan relevant to all Asia Rising (nrxt to link the whole trading/supply chains of the far east coast down through hong kong and cross-seas at singapore)
1 rural keynsianism ie 100% productivity in village first of all food security- borlaug alumni ending starvation
2 supercity costal trade models which designed hi-tech borderless sme value chains- to build a 20 million person capital or an 8 million person superport you needed the same advances in engineering - partly why this second economic model was win-win for first time since engines begun Glasgow 1760 ; potentially able to leverage tech giant leaps 100 times ahead; the big opportunity von neumann had gifted us - knowhow action networking multiply value application unlike consuming up things
1976 entrepreneurial revolution -translated into italian by prodi - argued that future globalisation big politics big corporate would need to be triangularised by community scaled sme networks- this was both how innovation advancing human lot begins and also the only way to end poverty in the sense of 21st C being such that next girl born can thrive because every community taps in diversity/safety/ valuing child and health as conditions out of which intergenerational economic growth can spring
in 1977 fathers survey of china - argued that there was now great hope that china had found the system designs that would empower a billion people to escape from extreme poverty but ultimately education of the one child generation (its tech for human capabilities) would be pivotal ( parallel 1977 survey looked at the futures of half the world's people ie east of iran)
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IN MORE DETAIL TECH HUMAN EXPONENTIALS LAST CHANCE DECADE? 
 - we are in midst of unprecedented exponential change (dad from 1960s called death of distance) the  tech legacy of von neumann (dad was his biographer due to luckily meeting him in his final years including neumann's scoping of brain science (ie ai and human i) research which he asked yale to continue in his last lecture series). Exponential risks of extinction track to  mainly western top-down errors at crossroads of tech  over last 60 years (as well as non transparent geonomic mapping of how to reconcile what mainly 10 white empires had monopoly done with machines 1760-1945 and embedded in finance - see eg keynes last chapter of general theory of money); so our 2020s destiny is conditioned by quite simple local time-stamped details but ones that have compounded so that root cause and consequence need exact opposite of academic silos- so I hope there are some simple mapping points we can agree sustainability and chinese anchors in particular are now urgently in the middle of
Both my father www.normanmacrae.net at the economist and I (eg co-authoring 1984 book 2025 report, retranslated to 1993 sweden's new vikings) have argued sustainability in early 21st c will depend mostly on how asians as 65% of humans advance and how von neumann (or moores law) 100 times more tech every decade from 1960s is valued by society and business.
My father (awarded Japan's Order of Rising Sun and one time scriptwriter for Prince Charles trips to Japan) had served as teen allied bomber command burma campaign - he therefore had google maps in his head 50 years ahead of most media people, and also believed the world needed peace (dad was only journalist at messina birth of EU ) ; from 1960 his Asian inclusion arguments were almost coincidental to Ezra Vogel who knew much more about Japan=China last 2000 years ( additionally  cultural consciousness of silk road's eastern dynamics not golden rule of Western Whites) and peter drucker's view of organisational systems
(none of the 10 people at the economist my father had mentored continued his work past 1993- 2 key friends died early; then the web turned against education-journalism when west coast ventures got taken over by advertising/commerce instead of permitting 2 webs - one hi-trust educational; the other blah blah. sell sell .sex sell. viral trivial and hate politicking)
although i had worked mainly in the far east eg with unilever because of family responsibilities I never got to china until i started bumping into chinese female graduates at un launch of sdgs in 2015- I got in 8 visits to beijing -guided by them around tsinghua, china centre of globalisation, a chinese elder Ying Lowrey who had worked on smes in usa for 25 years but was not jack ma's biographer in 2015 just as his fintech models (taobao not alibaba) were empowering villagers integration into supply chains; there was a fantastic global edutech conference dec 2016 in Tsinghua region (also 3 briefings by Romano Prodi to students) that I attended connected with  great womens education hero bangladesh's fazle abed;  Abed spent much of hs last decade hosting events with chinese and other asian ambassadors; unite university graduates around sdg projects the world needed in every community but which had first been massively demonstrated in asia - if you like a version of schwarzman scholars but inclusive of places linking all deepest sustainability goals challenges 
and i personally feel learnt a lot from 3 people broadcasting from cgtn you and the 2 ladies liu xin and  tian wei (they always seemed to do balanced interviews even in the middle of trump's hatred campaigns), through them I also became a fan of father and daughter Jin at AIIB ; i attended korea's annual general meet 2017 of aiib; it was fascinating watching bankers for 60 countries each coming up with excuses as to why they would not lead on infrastructure investments (even though the supercity economic model depends on that)
Being a diaspora scot and a mathematician borders (managers who maximise externalisation of risks) scare me; especially rise of nationalist ones ;   it is pretty clear historically that london trapped most of asia in colomisdation ; then bankrupted by world war 2 rushed to independence without the un or anyone helping redesign top-down systems ; this all crashed into bangladesh the first bottom up collaboration women lab ; ironically on health, food security, education bangladesh and chinese village women empowerment depended on sharing almost every village microfranchise between 1972 and 2000 especially on last mile health networking
in dads editing of 2025 from 1984 he had called for massive human awareness by 2001 of mans biggest risk being discrepancies in incomes and expectations of rich and poor nations; he suggested that eg public broadcast media could host a reality tv end poverty entrepreneur competition just as digital media was scaling to be as impactful as mass media
that didnt happen and pretty much every mess - reactions to 9/11, failure to do ai of epidemics as priority from 2005 instead of autonomous cars, failure to end long-term carbon investments, subprime has been rooted in the west not having either government nor big corporate systems necessary to collaboratively value Asian SDG innovations especially with 5g
I am not smart enough to understand how to thread all the politics now going on but in the event that any cgtn journalist wants to chat especially in dc where we could meet I do not see humans preventing extinction without maximising chinese youth (particularly womens dreams); due to covid we lost plans japan had to relaunch value of female athletes - so this and other ways japan and china and korea might have regained joint consciousness look as if they are being lost- in other words both cultural and education networks (not correctly valued by gdp news headlines) may still be our best chance at asian women empowerment saving us all from extinction but that needs off the record brainstorming as I have no idea what a cgtn journalist is free to cover now that trump has turned 75% of americans into seeing china as the enemy instead of looking at what asian policies of usa hurt humans (eg afghanistan is surely a human wrong caused mostly by usa); a; being a diaspora scot i have this naive idea that we need to celebrate happiness of all peoples an stop using media to spiral hatred across nations but I expect that isnt something an anchor can host generally but for example if an anchor really loves ending covid everywhere then at least in that market she needs to want to help united peoples, transparency of deep data etc

2021 afore ye go to glasgow cop26-

please map how and why - more than 3 in 4 scots earn their livelihoods worldwide not in our homeland- that requires hi-trust as well as hi-tech to try to love all cultures and nature's diversity- until mcdonalds you could use MAC OR MC TO identify our community engaging networks THAT SCALED ROUND STARTING UP THE AGE OF HUMANS AND MACHINES OF GKASGOW UNI 1760 1 2 3 - and the microfranchises they aimed to sustain  locally around each next child born - these days scots hall of fame started in 1760s around   adam smith and james watt and 195 years later glasgow engineering BA fazle abed - we hope biden unites his irish community building though cop26 -ditto we hope kamalA values gandhi- public service - but understand if he or she is too busy iN DC 2021 with covid or finding which democrats or republicans or american people speak bottom-up sustainable goals teachers and enrrepreneurs -zoom with chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk if you are curious - fanily foundation of the economist's norman macrae- explorer of whether 100 times more tehc every decade since 1945 would end poverty or prove orwell's-big brother trumps -fears correct 2025report.com est1984 or the economist's entreprenerialrevolutionstarted up 1976 with italy/franciscan romano prodi

help assemble worldrecordjobs.com card pack 1in time for games at cop26 glasgow nov 2021 - 260th year of machines and humans started up by smith and watt- chris.macrae@yahoo.co.uk- co-author 2025report.com, networker foundation of The Economist's Norman Macrae - 60s curricula telecommuting andjapan's capitalist belt roaders; 70s curricula entreprenurial revolution and poverty-ending rural keynesianism - library of 40 annual surveys loving win-wins between nations youth biographer john von neumann


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