MOOC, what’s in a name? After spending considerable time and effort on MOOCs in the past the Coursera / University of Edinburgh eLearning and Digital Culture MOOC (#edcmooc) was the first have been able to complete.
The 'Course' in MOOC. A discussion taking place on the OER-Forum Discussion List.
Posts by other people in italics. Abel Caine wrote, "I have to intervene with the developing country perspective. Millions of smart, motivated children/students for many reasons do not complete regular school or university. Given the opportunity, these learners have a burning desire to 'complete' the course. The MOOC Model: Challenging Traditional Education (EDUCAUSE Review.
Key Takeaways A turning point will occur in the higher education model when a MOOC-based program of study leads to a degree from an accredited institution — a trend that has already begun to develop.
Professor studies effectiveness of massive open online courses. By Asha Omelian, GW Hatchet Assistant professor Raluca Teodorescu will use a $10,000 grant to examine the effectiveness of online learning as the University prepares to roll out a set of massive open online courses.
The funds given Teodorescu mark GW’s first investment to examine the effectiveness of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, which have splashed across higher education this year, offering ways for universities to brand themselves and show off innovative learning tools. The University started working last month toward launching a set of pilot MOOCs later this year, but some deans and program directors have doubted their academic credibility.
Five Courses Receive College Credit Recommendations. A Financially Viable MOOC Business Model. Type “MOOC” (massive open online course) into Google, and you get 2.7 million hits.
Type in “MOOC business model,” and you get about 110,000 hits, most of them considering what a viable business model will or should be. More concretely, referring to the websites of the most popular online course providers—Coursera, Udacity, or edX—one is hard pressed to find a clear business model that works, in particular for the institutions that provide the course content. At present, the institutions producing MOOCs (MIT, Stanford, Harvard, and others) have relatively healthy balance sheets, sizeable endowments, and minimal competition. Why Openness Matters: From MOOCs to FlashMobs and Shared Spaces. #MOOC disasters are human and part of educational innovation and why sandboxes are good. With the Coursera course on the Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application being temporarily shut down due to a mix of unfortunate events (human miscalculation, limitations of technology, chaos...), sceptics of MOOC's feel strengthened.
But my heart really goes out to Fatimah Wirth, for she dared to test new approaches but ... fell into the trap that all of us tend to fall into at one time or another: dreaming and as a result wanting to go too far, too quickly. Fatimah, the way I see it you took a blow for all of us explorers. And ... you sure got all of our minds going, including mine. From all the talk on the Web I have read on the subject, I like this blogpost by Debbie Morrison the best, it focuses on the learner, linking it to learning theory and overall needs from a learner.
Comment financer des cours gratuits ? Publié par Projets ENT le 4 janvier 2013 Le succès des MOOC est incontestable mais leur modèle économique reste balbutiant et pour le moins incertain.
Avec des cours systématiquement gratuits, mieux vaut se montrer inventif pour que le processus attire de nombreux étudiants et s’avère rentable. Monter un MOOC, cela coûte cher ! Who is giving credit for MOOCs? Online learning goes official as five Coursera courses get approved by the American Council on Education. In other words, students who complete select courses on Coursera’s online platform will be able to potentially apply their credit toward a college degree.
The word “potentially” is in there because the company can’t guarantee that each college will approve the credit. That being said, more than 2,000 colleges and universities consider ACE CREDIT recommendations in determining the applicability to their course and degree programs, according to Coursera. The five courses in question were chosen for evaluation in November 2012 and have been approved as of today, February 7. The courses include four undergraduate credit courses and one vocational credit: Pre-Calculus from the University of California, Irvine.Introduction to Genetics and Evolution from Duke University.Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach from Duke University.Calculus: Single Variable from the University of Pennsylvania.Algebra from the University of California, Irvine. Big MOOC Coursera Moves Closer to Academic Acceptance.
Vorab-Veröffentlichung: Web Literacies und offene Bildung – Web Literacy Lab. Sommet de l'éducation: la CAQ pense que la gratuité doit être abordée, même si elle n'y croit pas. Québec — Même s'il s'agit d'un cul-de-sac, la gratuité scolaire devrait figurer au menu des discussions au Sommet de l'enseignement supérieur, a estimé mardi la Coalition avenir Québec (CAQ).
La formation de François Legault s'oppose à la gratuité, mais croit néanmoins que «tout doit être sur la table» lors de la rencontre qui se tiendra à Montréal les 25 et 26 février. Lundi, l'Association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante (ASSÉ) a prévenu le ministre de l'Enseignement supérieur, Pierre Duchesne, qu'elle claquera la porte du Sommet si la gratuité scolaire est écartée des débats. Elle a aussi brandi la menace d'une «escalade des moyens de pression» si les participants optent pour l'indexation des droits de scolarité.
Le ministre doit répondre mercredi à l'ultimatum lancé par le regroupement étudiant le plus radical. Il y a un peu plus d'une semaine, il avait toutefois signifié que la gratuité est un «idéal à long terme» et non une option envisageable «dans le contexte actuel». Open Content: Licensing, Attribution, and Reuse. Nearly every time we talk about open content, we are asked about licensing, reuse, and the possible risks of reuse.
It's a complicated issue, but it is definitely worth noting that using Creative Commons licensed material is significantly less complex than traditional copyright. With authoring events coming up in Portland and San Francisco, we wanted to look at the resources that already existed to explain licensing, and come up with as simple a guide to licensing and reuse as possible. Open Data: die nächste Runde. Berliner Bauakademie Von Open Data spricht man, wenn Daten des Staates für den Bürger geöffnet werden. „Dies betrifft insbesondere Abwesenheit von Copyright, Patenten oder anderen proprietären Rechten. The future of academic certification: universities, MOOCs, aggregators, and peer reputation. This morning I gave the opening keynote at the Virtual Universities: Impact on Accounting Education Thought Leadership forum in Adelaide, organized by the Centre of Accounting, Governance and Sustainability at University of South Australia and the Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia.
The audience was an invitation-only group of the most senior accounting academics and industry practitioners in the country. My keynote was on the broad global context for the current changes in education. Früherer Bitkom-Chef will MOOCs populärer machen - Campus. The MOOC Honeymoon is Over: Three Takeaways from the Coursera Calamity. The honeymoon with MOOCs is over. The reality check has finally arrived which was inevitable. MOOCs will not solve all the woes of higher education. It is unfortunate it had to be a class on how to design an online course; it was the Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application [FOE] offered through Coursera that brought things to a screeching halt. But this experience can provide an opportunity for institutions to re-focus—identify the role and purpose of MOOCs and move forward with a thoughtful, purposeful strategy. Coursera forced to call off a MOOC amid complaints about the course.
Maybe it was inevitable that one of the new massive open online courses would crash. After all, MOOCs are being launched with considerable speed, not to mention hype. E-Learning : Die ganze Welt trifft sich im virtuellen Hörsaal - Nachrichten Wirtschaft - Karriere. Peter Addor - Google+ - Ein cMOOC könnte auch als Projektmanagementmethode nützlich… (1) Anna Maria Zehentbauer - Google+ - N o m a d e n - E r l e b n i s einschließlich Sprachkurs… MOOC ist nicht gleich MOOC. Mit vernetzten Ansichten und verknüpftem Wissen Komplexität verstehen. #OER: Lehr- und Lernmittelfokussierung.
Jörn Loviscach - Google+ - Mein Vortrag aus St. Gallen darüber, was ich an massiven… Wenn man die Hattie-Studie in die Hand nimmt, sieht man, dass man damit nicht viel anfangen kann. Essay on what professors can learn from MOOCs. Educators create online courses for the same reasons that they became teachers to begin with: to educate students, broaden their awareness of the world and thereby improve the students’ lives. And with massive open online courses (MOOCs), educators can now reach many more students at a time. But MOOCs offer many other benefits to the education community, including providing valuable lessons to the instructors who teach them.
Online courses inherently allow students to create their own pathways through the material, which forces educators to think about the content in new ways. Why I think (OPEN) courses should be about content creation. I’ve been tangled in a number of projects and have left my blog sadly neglected. I have mentioned a few times on the blog that ‘content creation’ or ‘knowledge negotiation’ are integral to the rhizomatic learning process but have not addressed the issue of content creation directly.
I have been having such a difficult time writing lately that I don’t expect this to come out very smoothly… i just need to get it written I made a hastily written comment on the OERU googlegroup newsletter around the first of november. How Free Online Courses Are Changing Traditional Education. Open education - drop in rather than drop out. A common criticism of the current wave of more or less open courses is that there is a high drop-out rate with sometimes only 10-20% of students completing the course.
In the traditional education system this is seen as a sign of abject failure but should we apply the same principles in judging the impact of open education? Does it really matter who completes the course or not since the motivation for studying via MOOCs and suchlike is not to gain academic credits but simply to learn. If only part of the MOOC is relevant to your current interests you will study that part and then move on. This is not a case of dropping out but more like dipping into a good book to read the parts that interest you.
Re:Booting CA Higher Education – Transcript of Phil Hill Presentation. The following is a rough transcript of my presentation at the 20 Million Minds conference on January 7th. Thank you very much, and thanks to everybody for coming to the conference. Me? A lurker? How ignorant of you! I am an empowered listener! The 30 Biggest Myths About Online Learning. Measuring the Success of Online Education. MOOCs: Why Do We Need Instructional Design? About MOOC Completion Rates: The Importance of Student Investment « the augmented trader. Der Cargo Cult in der empirischen Bildungsforschung. The MOOCs fad and bubble: please tell us another story! When is a MOOC not a MOOC? Researchers, MOOCs, and Online Programs. If you want to make it with Moocs, you must stand out from the crowd. Lecture2go.uni-hamburg.de - Konferenzen. I’m leaving academia.
Education as Platform: The MOOC Experience and what we can do to make it better. Why a MOOC? 6 Reasons. What sort of MOOCs would emerge in the coming future. Universities seek copyright law reform to enable MOOCs. Erfahrungen mit Mooc » Mooc, Teilnehmer, Stanford, Moocs, School, University » Infoport-Blog. Massive Open Online Courses. DIE Zeitschrift „Erwachsenenbildung 2.0“ – Einladung zur Diskussion im Internet. MOOCS, Online Learning, and the Wrong Conversation. What would be the implications of MOOCs on Higher Education? Part 2.
(1) Stephen Downes - Google+ - MOOCs and Negotiation Responding to an enquiry... Just… Reuse is Key to Positive MOOC and OER Impact. Millions of Lessons Learned on Electronic Napkins. MOOCs and other ed-tech bubbles. Developing a MOOC-Inspired Course.