Sarah Hayes has written an interesting report about MOOCs and Quality. She wrote this report in commission for the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) in the UK. This literature review presents a number of different perspectives from a… more »
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This summer and fall we are running 11 MOOCs. There are couple of new courses and a lot of reruns of popular courses. We also offer two self-paced courses. All reruns will be improved based on the evaluation of prior runs. For the evaluation we use data… more »
Yesterday it was my turn to do an action lab on MOOCs. The subtitle was "everything you want to know about MOOCs". For my it was also a good activity to get all our activities together. And it is impressive.
We have 16 MOOCs finished, 4 are running… more »
A couple of researchers of MIT looked at the surveys of 11 MITx courses on edx in the spring of 2014. They found that one in four (28.0 percent) respondents identified as past or present teachers. Of the survey respondents, nearly one in 10 (8.7… more »
The Higher Education Academy in the UK has written an interesting report on MOOCs. This is their third report on MOOCs within a year.This report is about a study of ten people who completed one of the University of Southampton’s first two such courses… more »
Last month I attended the 8th EDEN Research workshop in Oxford (UK). EDEN is the European Distance and E-learning Network. I was invited as keynote speaker.
It was an interesting conference with good keynote speeches, interactive workshops and good… more »
SURF and the Open Education Special Interest Group published a special report on the didactics of open and online education. SURF organised a ‘pressure cook’ session on the didactics of open and online education on 24 June 2014. The aim of this meeting… more »
An important part of our newly established Delft Extension School is Research and Innovation. Under the leadership of our Dean and Director of Education we have a couple of existing faculty that are involved in this, but we are also hiring new people.… more »
In June I wrote about the OpenMOOCs of the Open Education Consortium. The enrollment of the first two MOOCs has started on edx.org more »
In de tweede week van Augustus nam ik deel aan de Learning with MOOCs workshop op de campus van MIT. Deze workshop is georganiseerd door Stanford en MIT en werd gesponsord door de Hewlett Foundation. Het doel van de workshop was om alle verschillende… more »