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A few days ago Paige Harris contacted me to let me know about an article she had written about MOOCs. She indicated that the resource provides an intro on the… 
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Hardly a day goes by without a story appearing in a major new outlet about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
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Designing a quality MOOC for the right Purpose - MOOC Quality Design: Interesting collection of resources and ideas about MOOCs and OER.
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MOOCs only have a history of about a little more than four years. The term MOOC was coined in 2008 by Dave Cormier and B
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Stanford's Lytics Lab gathers data from massive open online courses to learn more about how we learn. The group studies student behavior to measure interaction and performance.
Marci Segal, MS's curator insight,
April 13, 2013 10:57 AM
Good to have a peek inside what's going on, eh? Ready to take the plunge? 
Daniel Tan's curator insight,
July 4, 2014 9:42 PM
The greatest contribution of MOOCs to education will not be the demographic and geograhic reach it claims to provide, but the disruption it creates on the limitations and previous beliefs of the instructivist pedagogy model. Data and learning analytics will document how the student, and more specifically, how the brain learns. The truism that "(s)he who speaks the most learn the most" will be based on data Collected and analyzed. For now, we content that in teaching a class, that teacher has learned the most. :)
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RT @SalientResearch: Are #MOOCs becoming mechanisms for int'l competition in global #highered? OU UK, Canada & more.
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During my life I have always been interested in how ICTs can contribute to a better and sustainable development of the world. Education is one of the areas where that contribution can really make a difference.
Dr. Susan Bainbridge's insight:
MOOCs may be part of the 'great equilizer' evolution bringing all information to the world.
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Philip Bishop, a professor in the Honors College, usually teaches classes of about 25 students. But when he offered arts and humanities course last fall, “What Does it Mean to Live Well?
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"Just like anything else that involves human experience or interaction, the act of learning does not happen in a vacuum"
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Here's how MIT professor Eric Lander's introduction to biology course is being turned into a massive open online course for remote students.
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Are Assumptions part of the MOOC story? I reckon people have been making lots of assumptions about MOOCs since their inception, based on Assumptions Theory. Photo image: Google Are people assuming ...
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In this talk I discuss what will be coming 'After Moodle' by means of a discussion of open learning, connectivism, and personal learning environments, including
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Presentation slides for my 1-day MOOC workshop at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) on the 13 April, 2013.
Dr. Susan Bainbridge's insight:
Excellent slideshow.
Morgane Massart's curator insight,
April 30, 2013 6:27 AM
Voilà quelque chose de très complet et très intéressant! J'en recommande chaudement la lecture...
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There's mutterings in the air at the moment relating to MOOCs - Massive(ly) Open Online Courses: over the last few days, missives from David and Jim and Pat and Stephen amongst others. Arguably pri...
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Dr. Susan Bainbridge's insight:
Stephen's right . . . the point of MOOCs is not to make it 'fit' into ivy league colleges, but to open the doors to allow students without the means to attend these schools, to have access to further learning.
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RT @oerglue: The most popular MOOC platforms seem to have totally missed the 'open' part http://t.co/9xNONDnggV #OER #MOOC #edtech
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Connectivism A theoretical framework for understanding learning. Main proponents George Siemens (2005) and Stephen Downes (2006) Key principles of connectivism are: the recognition that learning an...
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“Cooperative Learning” is thus closely correlated with both connectivism and social learning theory in that the learning takes place in a social context.
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@polarisdotca @mathplourde @onlinelearningl For fun, I'm throwing this side debate in here too: http://t.co/R5HlNmfqr1 #MOOC #etmooc
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“It’s gone from 100,000 people learning about AI (artificial intelligence) to ‘I want Math I, and I want to get credit for it,” says Dean Florez, president of the Twenty Million Minds Foundation, which pushes for affordable higher education.
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As we plan the #diffiMOOC, I have been mulling over the principles of connectivism, and trying to determine the way that these will play out in the MOOC environment. Our MOOC is made up of students...
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Does a MOOC have to embrace Connectivism?
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There are xMOOCs adopting the mentoring approach. Soon most xMOOCs would use such pedagogy. In this post and this Harvard asks alumni for help with humanities mooc. For the first time, Harvard has...
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Some thoughtful charts.
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The bull sessions and hallway discussions of the physical college environment are replaced by online forums, social networks and video conferencing in the MOOC environment. And like reading, discussion largely boils down to a numbers game.
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Presentation slides for the OER and MOOC workshop facilitated at Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) on the 25th March, 2013.
Henri-Damien Laurent's curator insight,
March 25, 2013 4:46 AM
very compreensive presentation on OER and MOOC |
