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MOOCs and online Education:les évolutions technologiques au service de l'Education
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Lucas Gruez
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This past September the Cornell Forum on Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) hosted Daphne Koller and Anant Agrawal for remote video presentations about their respective organizations... 
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Publishing, music, shopping, journalism – all revolutionised by the internet. Next in line? Education. Now US academics are offering world-class tuition – free – to anyone who can log on, anywhere in the world, is this the end of campus life?...
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Yesterday, the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation announced the final recipients of grants for research and development specific to massive open online courses (MOOCs)...
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n Fall 2011, Stanford announced three, free massively open online courses, or MOOCs. Two of these courses, database and machine learning, corresponded to spring 2012 courses that I would be teaching at Vanderbilt University. I recognized that I could use the lecture materials from these classes to “flip” my own classes by having students view lectures before the class meeting, which then could be used for other learning activities....
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We are again talking about innovation in higher education and it is a refreshing change. The most conspicuous, challenging and controversial subject of these discussions is “MOOCs” – massive open online courses. MOOCs such as Coursera, Udacity and edX, all launched in early 2012, have received extensive media coverage accompanied by a lot of commentary. What type of education is offered here? Will it last? How do we judge its quality? Is there a role for accreditation?... http://www.scoop.it/t/easy-mooc
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OpenCourseWare benefits both learners and educators. The free and open publication of materials from online programs does not negatively affect enrolment but it attracts new, and a more diverse group of students and leads to a better match between student and school...
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What is social media, Google + and technology’s role in MOOC? What sort of MOOC model would be useful for online learning? Is MOOC suited for the education and learning of any subjects and topics? What would be the future MOOC like? ...
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Are MOOC’s really about FREE education? Coursera reveals how it intends to generate revenue off of “freely” available MOOC’s. In fact, many MOOC companies are launching business models where students and institutions will pay.Competition heats up between MOOC’s and traditional LMS companies...
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MOOC may be a silly-sounding acronym, but this new breed of online classes is shaking up the higher education world in ways that could be good for cash-strapped students and terrible for cash-strapped colleges...
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... Gilfus comments that: ‘Sustainability is not assured with the MOOC organizations until they can find an economic model that rewards all stakeholders. It might in fact be easier for existing LMS companies to pursue these models as the technology already exists on campus. Simply put companies like Blackboard, Desire2Learn, Moodlerooms and others are quickly devising strategies to develop high quality courses in addition to their current capabilities.‘...
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... On the other hand, distance education delivered could offer the needed alternative. Distance education employs several methods of learning such as eLearning and correspondence to extend education to students who are unable to access facilities within the physical classroom due time and space constraints...
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As President Obama develops his second-term agenda, his administration will no doubt focus on a range of higher-education priorities, including affordability, attainment levels, and career preparation. Yet as important as these issues are, something more fundamental is happening: We’re witnessing the end of higher education as we know it. This transformation is being brought on by “MOOCs”...
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Bonnie Stewart talks about different models of Massive Open Online Course and some of their implications for students.
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... Degrees will remain the currency of higher education. The most recent evidence of this is the rapid progress MOOCs are making to conform to the degree economy. Antioch recently announced that it would license Coursera MOOCs to provide its students with a lower-cost path to a bachelor’s degree. And this week Coursera announced that the American Council on Education...
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Ten thousand students have just taken the final exam in MITx's course "6.002x Circuits and Electronics." The sheer size of this course (120,000 first registered back in March), the high-wattage backing of MIT for a certificate of completion to all those who make it through to the end, and the free, open access nature of this MOOC (a "massive open online course") seemingly ushers in a fundamentally new paradigm in higher education...
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Amid all the hyperbolic proclamations that massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are poised to take over the educational universe, dispassionate and well-trained minds are needed to assess just exactly what is going on with digital and online learning and what we can reasonably expect....
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Get free online courses from the world’s leading universities. This collection includes over 540 free courses in the liberal arts and sciences. Download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player...
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... Beginning in the fall of 2013, the program will be open to any student enrolled in an undergraduate program anywhere in the world, with courses set to debut next fall (along with a handful of new institutions). Semester Online’s courses will feature the same faculty and curricula as their brick-and-mortar counterparts...
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...Higher education is now being disrupted; our MP3 is the massive open online course (or MOOC), and our Napster is Udacity, the education startup...
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... Cela renvoie à une vision de partage. Mais en fait ces termes ont de bien différentes acceptions suivant le nom auquel il est accolé. Certaines sont plutôt décevantes, d’autres au contraire enthousiasmantes et offrent de belles opportunités qu’il s’agit de cerner. Le panorama est plus fourni que la simple notion parfois associée au logiciel libre. Faisons un petit tour dans le domaine de la formation...
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...La richesse d’un MOOC connectiviste réside pour une grande part dans le contenu produit par ses participants. ITyPA n’est pas un rivière à laquelle on s’abreuve, mais plutôt un champ bien fleuri à partir duquel chacun doit constituer son bouquet. Mais par où commencer la cueillette ? ...
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The advent of Internet-enabled mass access to college level educational content offers a number of opportunities to both consumers and providers. Consumers can shop for any number of content items online from a wide array of providers, choosing products based on the subject, the prestige of the provider, and the subsequent value of participation...
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There seems to be a lot of animosity toward MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) at the moment, mostly it seems because they don’t offer the same experience as a traditional on-campus course and because of the issues around assessment. But I wonder how many of those nay-sayers have actually taken a MOOC?...
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