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MOOCs, Massively Online Open Courses The idea of the MOOC has come to prominence in the last year or so. The idea is that courses can exist online provided by organisations such as universities or... 
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Marginal Revolution University created by professors Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok is the latest entrant into the MOOC market and is the real thing. It’s a Massive Open Online Course that ap...
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In his reflection on the first week of #cfhe12, Bryan Alexander looks at the continued fervor behind MOOCs, as well as the focus of economics in the initial discussions coming from #cfhe12. Bryan ...
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Open isn’t so open anymore « Connectivism: http://t.co/nHwOae7l... (Open isn’t so open anymore
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With the Chronicle of Higher Education’s recent story, “MOOC Mania,” even more people are talking about MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses – and a lot of this dialogue is happening right here on www.hastac.org. Check out the links below for insightful posts on MOOCs and how to use them to revolutionize teaching and learning.
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"I would like to make just one point, that it is not "Siemen's 'Connectivism,'" that he gave a name to a theory and approach a number of us had been working on for some time. I don't mind saying I borrow the name from him, but I would certainly say this is as much my theory (and that of numerous other people) as it is his."
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What is learning? Peter Sloep posted here in response to a post by Steve Wheeler. One of the characteristics of learning through digital media is the ability to crowd source content, ideas and art...
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"It's funny how things come together to give you a better understanding of your own mind. A couple of weeks ago I got caught up the internet debate on mass-participation online education started by an American stats professor critiquing Udacity'sIntroduction to Statistics by Sebastian Thrun."
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My dance with NCURA’s social web network. I first looked at their Twitter feed and found that the majority of tweets (and I mean almost all) were pointing followers to their “YouTube Tuesday” sessi...
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"Once it is, I think there will really be two parts to the Learning Space. One is the instructor’s own Personal Learning Network, where they can pull in ideas from other experts, articles, current events, and all kinds of other content. As George Siemens has pointed out, instructors need to avoid teaching alone – so pulling in others in very important. The other part of the Learning Space would be the aggregation and distribution tools that export this content out to the learners, as well as importing student work for review and distribution."
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With fees rising and applications down and, it seems appropriate to re-ignite the debate on the future of Higher Education (Keyword: connectivism.
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Figure 1 My learning network (Figure 1.) has grown significantly over the years. Before computers (if you can imagine), I focused mostly on books from the library and my fellow students at school...
Anita Young's curator insight,
June 24, 2015 9:59 AM
Great views of how we are mainly connectivism learners. Mentions that we are losing human contact as we interact more with appliances.
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A trackback a week or two ago to my blog from this personal blog post: #SNAc week 1: what are networks and what use is it to study them? highlighted me to a MOOC currently running on Coursera on so...
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Below, I have included the evolution of a simple diagram as evidenced by several linguistic translations and a video inspired by the concept.
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The organization is like a magnetic field, within which each individual has certain role and contribution to make learning possible. The individuals with similar minds and common interests will contribute as a whole, while each of them can benefit from the organization.
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Massive Open Online Courses (aka MOOCs) are the biggest trend affecting education right now. They've gotten the attention of VCs, Harvard, MIT, and students around the world. So what's the big deal and what does the future hold?
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"I previously posted an item on Sir John Daniel's discussion of MOOCs, but I have added more extensive comments on Tony Bate's review - I rather suspect it is much more likely to be read by him there than on any site of mine. "
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MOOCs already need an overhaul. Let's get to "version 2" as soon as possible.
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Cisco recently released their Connected World Technology Report in which they interviewed college students and young professionals from around the world... (Connectivism, the new world order?
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In this video, virtual community pioneer Howard Rheingold interviews educator Jonathan Shaw about his groundbreaking experiments in online, collaborative learning in the arts. The Coventry MOOCs use transmedia narrative to teach transmedia narrative: teachers and students, physically co-present students and online participants from six continents, show, tell, remix, mashup, and discuss.
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