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Tonight! MOOC Madness: Technapex's Panel on Online Education - Technapex
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Tonight! MOOC Madness: Technapex's Panel on Online EducationTechnapexWe couldn't be more excited for our fantastic mixer and panel tonight! MOOC Madness: Technapex's Panel on Online Education is a happy hour event to discuss the recent hype around MOOCs and online education in higher education. The MOOC Madness ... [Link] Mon, 20 May 2013 15:19:58 GMT

MOOCs Explained: Radio Interview with University of Delaware
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Just over a week ago I had the opportunity to participate in a radio interview for the University of Delaware’s local station WVUD, with the Campus Voices interview airing on May 17th. The interview was in advance of Delaware’s summer faculty … Continue reading → The post MOOCs Explained: Radio Interview with University of Delaware appeared first on e-Literate. [Link] Mon, 20 May 2013 14:00:36 +0000

What Professors Can Learn From 'Hard Core' MOOC Students - Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
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Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)What Professors Can Learn From 'Hard Core' MOOC StudentsChronicle of Higher Education (subscription)It's unlikely that MOOC addiction will grow into a pressing social problem—after all, Coursera already claims more than 3.5 million students, so these junkies are a small minority. But most of the people I interviewed say that they are somewhat ...Is a MOOC a Textbook or a Course?Education Week News (blog)Commentary: Creative destruction meets higher educationWashington Postall 3 news articles » [Link] Mon, 20 May 2013 14:42:34 GMT

MOOC Skeptic Proposes an Anti-MOOC MOOC - Inside Higher Ed
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MOOC Skeptic Proposes an Anti-MOOC MOOCInside Higher Ed"If you've read the (rather long) letter, you'll have seen that it's not actually an invitation to co-teach a course, but rather a thinly veiled attack on Coursera and the whole MOOC model," she wrote. " When we launched Coursera we introduced a ...Daily DebriefingThe Dartmouthall 2 news articles » [Link] Mon, 20 May 2013 07:10:03 GMT

MOOC Skeptic Proposes an Anti-MOOC MOOC
, Inside Higher Ed
Here's a course topic not currently offered by any of the providers of massive open online courses: "The Implications of Coursera’s For-Profit Business Model for Global Public Education." The course was proposed last week by Robert Meister, professor of political and social thought in the department of the history of consciousness at the University of California at Santa Cruz and president of the Council of UC Faculty Associations. He sent a letter with his idea to Daphne Koller, a computer science professor at Stanford University and co-founder of Coursera,... [Link] Mon, 20 May 2013 07:00:00 +0000

Thoughts on a Manifesto
, Inside Higher Ed
Blog: Confessions of a Community College DeanSean Michael Morris’ “Manifesto for Community Colleges, Lifelong Learning, and Autodidacts” is getting some traction, and it’s easy to see why.  Morris argues that we’re in the midst of a massive transformation of higher education, in which students are left much more to their own devices than they once were. As Morris puts it, The new culture of learning is one where learning takes place all the time, everywhere, and according to learners’ own preferences and motivations... [Link] Mon, 20 May 2013 01:38:07 +0000

'Laptop U' Misses the Real Story
, Inside Higher Ed
Blog: Technology and LearningNathan Heller's terrific New Yorker article Laptop U has been making the rounds in our professional networks. By Tweet and e-mail, photocopy and blog post, many of us are spending some quality time with some of the good folks responsible for bringing higher education to scale. Like most of the colleagues I have spoken to who have read Laptop U, my responses to the article on first read were positive. Heller is both an engaging writer and a terrific storyteller, and he approaches the whole MOOC phenomenon with an open mind and a refusal to draw sim... [Link] Mon, 20 May 2013 01:00:00 +0000

Bollywood Goes to College
, Inside Higher Ed
Blog: University of VenusMay third marked the 100th anniversary of the first Hindi film’s release.  BBC World News spent much of the day in celebratory analysis. Those of us immersed in international education would do well to take note, because Bollywood captures South Asian educational as well as romantic fantasies.   A debate about what constitutes an international educational success takes place in Mumbai megaplexes and London lounges on screens large and small.  Famed director Yash Chopra died last October. Chopra’s passing garnered ... [Link] Mon, 20 May 2013 00:20:00 +0000

Filming for "Online Games" MOOC Begins in Nashville at Vanderbilt University
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Dear HASTAC Community, Filming for Coursera's "Online Games: Literature, New Media, and Narrative" MOOC is now underway at Vanderbilt's Curb Center for Art, Entererprise and Public Policy, just off music row in Nashville. I'm proud to be lead TA and one of five Vanderbilt graduate students working on this exciting project. The course, taught by Jay Clayton, will cover remediation, questing, the history of romance, space and time in virtual narratives, and other interesting topics. The 7-week course will break down as follows:   read ... [Link] Sun, 19 May 2013 18:57:30 +0000

Is a MOOC a Textbook or a Course? - Education Week News (blog)
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Is a MOOC a Textbook or a Course?Education Week News (blog)What exactly is a MOOC? Like most interesting things in this world, the term avoids simple definition. For instance, what constitutes a course? A particular body of knowledge to be delivered? Except maybe in the case of skill-based classes, like a ... [Link] Sun, 19 May 2013 17:31:16 GMT

Why the Past Cannot Predict the Future of MOOCs and Online Learning [#Infographic]
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Higher education has withstood centuries of progress without changing. That’s about to change.See it on Scoop.it, via Connectivism [Link] Sun, 19 May 2013 17:42:24 GMT

Coursera should be subject of Mooc, says professor - Times Higher Education
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Times Higher EducationCoursera should be subject of Mooc, says professorTimes Higher Education“As the course progresses, my more diligent students will come to see…that reducing income gaps through education is not the main problem that Coursera and other Massive Open Online Course (Mooc) providers are trying to solve in their pitch to ... [Link] Sat, 18 May 2013 23:32:53 GMT

Hack Education Weekly News: A MOOC Master's Degree
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MOOCs Udacity, Georgia Tech, and AT&T announced this week a partnership to offer an online Master’s Degree in Computer Science. The degree will cost less than $7000 (significantly cheaper than the MS that the university currently offers, in part because of the financial support for the program from AT&T), although anyone will be able to take the Udacity classes for free via its website. Udacity will take a 40% of the revenues, according to Inside Higher Ed, which also reports that Georgia Tech only plans to hire 8 or so more instructors to handle the new program, whic... [Link] Sat, 18 May 2013 11:41:47 PDT

How to explain the current xMOOCs in terms of education model and pedagogy?
, Connectivism | Scoop.it
Daniel in his post of  a criticism of computer science models or modeles says: The problem is made worse by the fact that researchers working on modèles more easily get the upper hand. They are nev...See it on Scoop.it, via Connectivism [Link] Sat, 18 May 2013 07:07:17 GMT

Google Play for Education Versus...
, Hack Education
Google Play for EducationGoogle held its annual developer conference this week, and during Wednesday’s keynote, the company touted its work in education, including the growing adoption of Google Apps for Education (some 25+ million users worldwide) and Chromebooks (engineering exec Chris Yerga highlighted its recent country-wide implementation in Malaysia). The new news: Google also unveiled plans for a new education-focused section of its Android app store, “Google Play for Education.” The store, which will launch this... [Link] Fri, 17 May 2013 19:11:00 PDT

MOOC Resources

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Building a MOOC collaboratively - Google Groups

(Very) Partial History of MOOCs

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Year: 2012

Mobi-MOOC

Games Based Learning MOOC - designed for educators who want to learn more games, simulations and game-like environments for education.

MOOC MOOC: a mini-MOOC, a meta-MOOC, a MOOC about MOOCs. From August 12 - 19th, Hybrid Pedagogy will host a lively, playful scrutiny and consideration of the Massive Open Online Course. MOOC MOOC will explore the pedagogical approach, the sustainability of the form, and alternatives to MOOCs. More info. in my announcement here.

YEAR: 2011
Change.MOOC - Change: Education, Learning, and Technology! (Fall 2011) 

eduMOOC - Online Learning Today and Tomorrow (Summer 2011)

DS106 - Digital Storytelling (Summer 2011) 

MobiMOOC - Mobile Learning  (Spring 2011)

LAK11 - Learning and Knowledge Analytics (Spring 2011)

CCK11 - Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (Spring 2011) 




YEAR: 2010
PLENK - Personal Learning Environments Networks and Knowledge (Fall 2010)



YEAR: 2009
Connectivism (Fall 2009) 

Connect! Your PLN Lab (Fall 2009)

YEAR: 2008
Connectivism  (Fall 2008) - the first MOOC

Pre-MOOCs

YEAR: 2007
EC&I 831 - Social Media & Open Education (Fall 2007)

INST 7150 - Intro to Open Education (Fall 2007)

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