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 »
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Eindelijk begint in Nederland ook de discussie op het gebied van MOOCs op gang te komen. Afgelopen zaterdag stond er in de Opinie & Debat bijlage van de NRC een artikel (alleen toegankelijk met NRC-account) van prof. José van Dijck (UvA) getiteld “D… more »
Yesterday there was an interesting session on MOOCs. Hannes Klöpper, co-founder of iversity, made a good observation about the 4 distinct factors for the succes of MOOCs:
New ways of using video
Social community build around the course
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The last couple of weeks I was a bit busy with travelling and didn't have time to blog a lot about MOOCs. There are some interesting new resources available about MOOCs, here a selection:
Sir John Daniel - Making Sense of MOOCs: Musings in a Maze of My… more »
Interesting article by Brandon Butler from the Association of Research Libraries about the legal and policy issues for research libraries when you start with a MOOC:
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) raise significant legal and policy questions for r… more »
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Last Friday I was asked to do an presentation for the teachers of TU Delft Aerospace Engineering who are involved with the Online Master pilot. The presentation should give an overview of what is happening around the world in open and online education.… more »
De afgelopen jaren zijn er vele overnames geweest van LMS-systemen. Het grote voorbeeld hiervan is Blackboard met de overnames van Angel Learning en WebCT. Voor eerst zien wij weer een toename van het aantal home-grown platforms. Dit komt vooral door d… more »
Mark Vinegar is organising a MOOC on Mobile Learning on Blackboard's Coursesites-platform:
Teachers can learn how to infuse their teaching with new mobile learning strategies by participating in the free Mobile Learning MOOC at Coursesites by Blackboar… more »
Yesterday I saw some tweets about a 'Mechanical MOOC' and I really had no idea what to expect. My first association was with Amazon's Mechanical turk, but I couldn't see that in regards to a MOOC.
In the press release it states:
The mechanical MOOC is… more »