Deze week starte de eerste MOOC van de Open Universiteit. Het onderwerp is E-learning. Ik was natuurlijk vooral benieuwd naar de open licentie die de OU hiervoor gebruikt. Fred Mulder en Robert Schuwer van de OU zijn hiervoor een groot pleiter en dan mo… more »
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In Campus Technology Michelle Fredette has written an interesting article about How to Convert a Classroom Course Into a MOOC.
The sheer size and diversity of the student body in a MOOC force faculty to use strategies for planning, teaching, and assess… more »
In June the EdX launched its code base with a open license. Yesterday they launched a new initiative to translate the platform via a crowd-sourced platform Transifex: https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/edx-platform/
Please help us to translate the pl… more »
Initiated by the 5 Chiao Tung Universities in Taiwan and China, there is a new Chinese MOOC platform. The platform isaiming at the Chinese population around the word. They will offer around 15 courses this year from Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, an… more »
Here a selection of interesting blog and news articles about MOOCs.
The attack of the MOOCs An army of new online courses is scaring the wits out of traditional universities. But can they find a viable business model?
How widely used are MOOC foru… more »
René Kizilcec and Emily Schneider from the LyticsLab of Stanford are doing an interesting research on the effect of the teacher in view with video.
The presence of a small picture-in-picture (PIP) of the instructor in online learning videos has become… more »
Tharindu Rekha Liyanagunawardena (University of Reading, UK) , Andrew Alexandar Adams (Meiji University, Japan), and Shirley Ann Williams (University of Reading, UK) performed a systematic study of the published literature on MOOCs between 2008 and 2012… more »
On June 6th and 7th Pierre Dillenbourg from EPFL organised a European MOOC Stakeholder meeting in Lausanne. On behave of TU Delft Nellie van de Griend attended this meeting (I had a more important event).
One of the goals of the meeting was to get a go… more »
From the launch of edX the founding universities have emphasized that research into learning will be one of the initiative’s core missions. As numerous articles in both the academic and popular press have pointed out, the ability of MOOCs to generate a… more »
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 »