Good post by Lisa M Lane.Student authentication and the Hays Code Recently, my college (and many others) have been subjected to demands that we provide solid “authentication” of our online students, in a late and yet hurried attempt to comply with a federal law from the 2008 amendment of the Higher Education Act*…
Poets always say it way better.
Poets always say it way better.
iMOOC – Um modelo institucional para MOOCs
Apresentação no I Seminário de Inovação em Rede no Ensino Universitário a Distância – #iNOVead – a 6 de junho de 2013, no Palácio Ceia, Universidade Aberta, onde se fala do modelo da UAb.pt para MOOCs (iMOOC) e do curso piloto sobre Alterações Climáticas no contexto das experiências de vida – #imoocac13.
Martin Weller on Coursera’s regular online courses
Martin Weller keeps on a good roll with another great post on MOOCs, this time about the new strategy by Coursera to offer regular online courses. So what about MOOCs, you know, those free, open courses? Is this the end of them? No, I don’t think so, but maybe they can now become what we […]
Grainne Conole questions the xMOOCs / cMOOCs division
Grainne Conole questions the xMOOCs / cMOOCs division and proposes a new classification set of twelve dimensions: the degree of openness, the scale of participation (massification), the amount of use of multimedia, the amount of communication, the extent to which collaboration is included, the type of learner pathway (from learner centred to teacher-centred and highly […]
Stephen Downes – OERs, MOOCs and the Future
Presentation by +Stephen Downes – Slides and audio. Worth watching/listening. OERs, MOOCs and the Future [Slides][Audio] Overview discussing open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs) as they relate to the future. Issues considered include varieties of openness, licensing and combining resources, access, the nature of definitions, types of MOOCs, change and the […]
Martin Weller on possible scenarios for the development of MOOCs
Good post by Martin Weller on possible scenarios for the development of MOOCs. I say, this is what MOOCs should be even in the current state of affairs. The Ed Techie: If education were free, what would MOOCs be? Here’s a thought experiment, if there were no students fees and higher education were free, what […]
Martin Weller on the attempt to rewrite MOOCs’ history
Two great posts on the current attempt to rewrite MOOCs’ history: “MOOC Wars” by Martin Weller, and “[Expletive Deleted]“, by Audrey Watters. Both reflect on how the “HE is broken” argument is being used to promote a business model around MOOCs that has hardly anything to do with their original intent and nature. Among other […]
iMOOC da UAb ultrapassa já as 500 inscrições
O iMOOC Alterações Climáticas, oferecido pela Universidade Aberta (UAb.pt) no âmbito do projecto #openuped, ultrapassou já as 500 inscrições. Informações e registo em http://imooc.uab.pt/.
Press release of the OpenupED project
Press release of the OpenupED project, a joint effort of several European universities to offer european MOOCs. Official launch is tomorrow, April 25th, at 11:00-12:00 CEST. More information at http://www.openuped.eu/. Universidade Aberta (Portugal) has been actively participating in the project and will have a course available (in Portuguese), with registrations opening on April, 26th. #openuped EUROPA – […]