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 »
Tag: "mooc"
This week Blackboard announced the CourseSites MOOC Catalog:
Empowering Learning Through Community
Blackboard is pleased to support open education opportunities and massive open online courses (MOOCs) through CourseSites by Blackboard, a free, hoste… more »
Last monday MIT and Harvard organised an seminar on MOOCs. The official title was "Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education". Anka attended the conference on behave of the TU Delft. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman was one of the… more »
Last week Phill Hill wrote a blog post about four types of students in MOOCs. He identified four types:
Lurkers – This is the majority of students within xMOOCs, where people enroll but just observe or sample a few items at the most. Many of these st… 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 »
Gisteren vond het SurfAcademy seminar over MOOCs plaats. Toen wij enkele maanden geleden vanuit de SIG OER bedachten dat het wel een goed onderwerp voor een seminar zou zijn en we een programma hebben opgesteld, hadden wij niet verwacht dat er zo veel b… 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 »
This is the 100th blogpost that I publish on this blog in 2012. In this blog an overview of the most populair posts and other statistics.
The blogpost were not nicely distributed over the year. Although I published every month at least 5 posts, Decembe… more »
In 2011 Blackboard launched Coursesites. This platform is free for teachers to create course and offer them to students. The CourseSites platform is based on the full Blackboard Learn platform including Blackboard Collaborate and Mobile. They are runnin… more »
Audrey Watters is one of the rare Educational technology journalists and she is really good at. This month she is doing a serie about the top Ed-Tech trends of 2012. She has now publiced 8 really great articles that everyone in education should read.… more »