After the OCWC Global Conference I enjoyed my holliday and I'm still catching up on all the MOOC activities in the past month. So here is a list of interesting items:
Georgia Tech to Offer a MOOC-Like Online Master's Degree, at Low Cost Georgia Tech… more »
Tag: "coursera"
Two weeks ago the University of Edinburgh released their first report on their experiences gained after having organized 6 MOOC courses via Coursera. In this 34 page report they provide insights on organizing a Coursera MOOC, the success rates, their… more »
The Chronicle has created an Who's who and how are they connected. Although it only US-focused, it gives good insight how the MOOC ecosystem is organised. more »
According to Adam Heidebrink MOOC platforms can be more dynamic. In his article he made a comparison of the platforms Coursera, Canvas and EdX. He provides 4 preliminary suggestions:
Integrated real-time discussion
Crowdsourced annotations
Promote… more »
Peter Rheinhardt wrote an interesting blog article about the retention in online education and then specifically in MOOCs:
I don?t want to tear down these products or the people who?ve built them, I?m rooting for them all the way. They just need som… more »
The Chronicle has published the result of an survey among professor who have taught a mooc. They invited 184 professors and 104 reacted to the invitation. Although the findings are not scientific. They say "the most enthusiastic of the MOOC professors w… more »
On List EdTech there is an interesting post about the different universities that joined Coursera, EdX, Coursera and FutureLearn. Some interesting information I got from the article:
Coursera has universities from 17 countries, EdX from 5 and FutureL… more »
Yvonne Belanger and Jessica Thornton from Duke University have written an interesting paper on the creation and delivery of the MOOC Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach on the Coursera platform. In the summary they have listed the most important… more »
Inmiddels zijn er drie universiteiten in Nederland die hebben aangekondigd om te starten met MOOCS.
Universiteit Leiden was de eerste met de aankondiging van "European Law" op het Coursera platform (inmiddels meer dan 10.000 deelnemers). De UvA heeft e… more »
2012 is the year of the MOOC. Audrey Watters has written an very good overview of MOOCs in 2012. In the last year we got the announcements of new platforms to deliver MOOCs. This week the 12 UK universities announced another new platform.
I made a lis… more »