This article on the death and life of Higher Education provides an interesting insight into how HE could be run in an entrepreneurial manner, where “the most powerful solution will be a comb...
Join Scoop.it for Free
Share ideas that matter on the social web and experience
the benefits of curating the world's best content.
I don't have a Facebook, a Twitter or a LinkedIn account
Already have an account: Login
Examining the development of the Massive Open Online Course
Curated by
eLearning and Design
|
Scooped by Peter Mellow onto Massively MOOC |
Scoop.it!
No comment yet.
Sign up to comment
Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
 Your new post is loading...
Scoop.it!
The diverse team of eLearning advisors provide elearning workshops, send out periodic newsletter, provide customised consultation, support the eScholar program and more.
Use the 'Filter' pull-down menu above to search for topics by keywords. Via Kim Flintoff 
Kim Flintoff's comment,
June 13, 2:12 AM
The website was redesigned and we disappeared ... This scoop is simply a flag about who's curating... We didn't expect anyone wold ever want to visit us.....
Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
In a move aimed at buttressing its position as a leader in online education, Deakin University launched its first massive open online course (MOOC) on 17 June and plans to use it as a test-bed for redeveloping its full learning environment. Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have certainly got higher education folks talking. These free online courses, often from prestigious universities, have prompted one obvious question: why should students pay to go to university when they can get quality courses for free? Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
In a move aimed at buttressing its position as a leader in online education, Deakin University will launch its first massive open online course (MOOC) on Monday. Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
In this post I review a recently completed Coursera course using a quality scorecard approach to measure and quantify five key dimensions of the course. I’m in the final week of a Coursera MOOC, Sp... Via Bronwyn Disseldorp Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
I am one of the signers of the open letter by the professors of philosophy at San José State University to Professor Michael Sandel of Harvard University concerning his involvement in edX, a start-up company that offers massive open online courses (MOOCs). The letter, collaboratively written by members of the department and approved by all, explained our reasons for resisting the implementation of JusticeX, a course based on videotaped lectures from Sandel’s massively popular Harvard course on justice, in our curriculum. We wrote:
Although our letter sparked much needed discussion about the value of MOOCs, confusion remains about the options presented by new education technologies and the potential value they may have for higher learning. 
Fiona Harvey's curator insight,
June 16, 2:10 PM
Whilst I agree that watching videos and taking quizzes is a backward step for education, Coursera MOOCs (and EdX) have been developed so that the courses are improved through the analytics that are gained as the students participate. I don't think MOOCs save money, they are reputation raising, and highlight how classes are delivered within the institutions. Any MOOC that offers watching videos without interaction, or any formative assessment is probably doing a disservice to their institution.
We should learn to learn about online education as a viable alternative (done properly). Then MOOCs will be good for on campus students 
Will Stewart's curator insight,
June 17, 4:34 AM
An interesting take on the threat to the traditional model from MOOCs. Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
We shouldn't assume peer-to-peer (or P2P) interactions in MOOC forums are essentially the same or as good as on campus. A MOOC forum may have less interaction despite having a larger number of people and being more convenient. Via MOOC News & Reviews, Andy Tattersall Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
As massive open online courses (MOOCs) gain publicity and popularity, it's time to address the legal concerns affecting this trend in higher education. Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
Recently published MOOC research on student behavior reveals interesting insights about the persistence of the certificate earners and about the time they put into the various course activities.
“Learning in the Worldwide Classroom: Research Into edX’s First MOOC” was produced by a group of MIT and Harvard researchers, led by Lori Breslow, director of MIT’s Teaching and Learning Laboratory, and published in the summer 2013 issue of RPA Journal from Research & Practice in Assessment. The analysis looked at Circuits and Electronics (6.002x), taught in early 2012 by edX President Anant Agarwal to nearly 155,000 students, and they particularly focused on the 7,100 students who earned a certificate for passing the course Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
Preparing the course is labour intensive. It involves recording video lectures in a MOOC Studio as well as defining assignments and evaluations. The preparation time is of course smaller if you start from a well prepared course that you have been teaching for an extended time and for which you have pedagogical ressources readily available. Via Peter Mellow Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
Massive open online courses are being promoted "for the students." But software execs and politicians pushing MOOCs have money and disruption at the top of the agenda. Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
iversity’s jury announced the 10 winners of its MOOC Production Fellowship contest. It will launch the courses for students in Germany, Europe and the rest of the world. Our view is that it is interesting – and a little surprising – that all the winners were from Europe. The list of finalists we looked at showed many good proposals from North America and other parts of the world, many with sexier ideas and titles than their European counterparts. So it makes us wonder if the contest was really ever a global one or just appeared to be so? Anyways, it’s great to have MOOC players emerging from Europe, including iversity. But perhaps they should have been more up front that it was an EU competition? Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
|
Scoop.it!
What's it about?
In this subject you will explore Education as a social institution charged with communicating the knowledge, skills and cultural values that society considers most important. Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
DEAKIN University is offering assessment and credit for a fee as part of its first step into so-called massive open online courses launched yesterday.
The free online course is open to anyone but doesn't offer any credit. However for $495, Deakin will assess a student's work and, subject to the student completing a separate research paper and passing an interview, they will be able to earn credit towards a Deakin postgraduate qualification in international and community development. Deakin has at this stage limited the fee and assessment option to a maximum of 100 students. Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
After becoming the first Australian university to join prestigious international online course provider Coursera, the University of Melbourne has been stunned by uptake of its suite of free subject offerings from people the world over. Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
The bottom line is that the simple idea of making and making use of relevant courses, made free (or cheap) and accessible to millions of young Africans, is as good an example as any of Africa leapfrogging a Western Higher Education system that has proved slow, cumbersome and far too expensive. Via Nik Peachey 
Motonobu Kasajima's curator insight,
June 15, 6:00 PM
I am very skeptical of this kind of pro discourse for such a eye product on African contient... 
Anne Sturgess's curator insight,
June 15, 10:32 PM
While I want accessible quality education for everyone, I have doubts about the long-term effectiveness of online only approaches for in-depth learning. Willing to be proved wrong. 
Le Page Gilles's curator insight,
June 16, 2:04 AM
Penser à des MOOCs africains c'est échapper au modèle occidental dominant de l'enseignement supérieur Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
Leddy says this because he seems to be familiar with only one kind of MOOC - those of the MIT and Stanford model. Not all MOOCs are alike, yet despite the fact that he has had the traditional education that would allow him to read, think about, and intelligently respond to any field of study, that does not seem to extend to education itself. I am not sure what publications like the Boston Review or the Chronicle of Higher Ed is up to, but the majority of articles about MOOCs in such publications are typically written by those who have never taught online, taught a MOOC, or even taken a MOOC. They are written by people who have not even reviewed the history or literature (however scant) on MOOCs. Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
Conclusion
When these people presented their visions for African MOOCs, it was disappointing to hear predictable responses about drop-outs, certification and quibbles about the history of MOOCs. This is to apply old narrow narratives to something entirely new and disruptive. This was in stark contrast to the visionaries, who were actually doing real work, on real MOOCs, with large numbers of real learners. We needn’t worry. The digital genie has escaped from the Ivory Tower and caught the imagination of people who really care about access. Thinking of MOOCs in Africa makes you see the potentials for escape from the dominant and oppressive western model of Higher Education; remote, inaccessible, expensive, elitist and overly-academic. I wish them well. Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
And I think everyone should. It certainly is on the edge of turning over education. Coursera is offering many more interesting courses than I could possibly take and the choice of which ones to sti... Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
MOOC. Another acronym to add to your collection. Stands for Massive Open Online Course. Translation: Free, online courses taught by experts in their fields, featuring professors from the nation’s most elite institutions of higher learning. Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
A BUSINESS model appears to be emerging for "massive open online courses" but it will not make the true work of universities redundant, says educator Shirley Alexander.
Professor Alexander, deputy vice-chancellor for teaching and learning at the University of Technology, Sydney, cited a recent change whereby major MOOCs had begun to pursue collaborations that would allow MOOC units to be counted towards formal, on-campus qualifications.
This could complement the role of the university, she told an Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows' forum at UTS yesterday. Employers placed greater weight on the interpersonal and communication skills of graduates, skills developed on campus, than on sheer academic results, which could equally be attained via a MOOC.
"If what we're doing (at university) is such that it can be replaced by a MOOC, then we should give it up, and give back the taxpayers' dollars," Professor Alexander said.
"What we should be providing on campus has to be qualitatively different to the kind of experience students can have on a MOOC". Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
Online learning empowers students and offers alternatives to traditional higher education. Via Susan Bainbridge, Carole McCulloch Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
From a stopgap measure for under-served college students to a massive enterprise forming new partnerships with research and public universities alike, the role of massive open online courses (MOOCs) in higher education has undergone a massive shift... Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
Scoop.it!
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) is a growing phenomenon in higher education. MOOCs open up many short-term and long-term questions in regards to the viability of the current MOOCs model and wha... Delete the scoop?
Are you sure you want to delete this scoop?
Yes
|
