The Open Education Consortium has become a member of edX, providing opportunities for our members to transform their existing OER and OCW into openly licensed MOOCs under the Open Education Consortium’s shingle on edX.
In the newsletter we have put som… more »
Tag: "moocs"
This week I was invited to introduce the participants of the 2nd International Conference on E-learning, organised by the Egyptian E-learning University to the field of Open Education. This is one of the things you sometimes have to do as board member o… more »
MOOC Research Initiative (MRI) is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of a set of investments intended to explore the potential of MOOCs to extend access to postsecondary credentials through more personalized, more affordable pathw… more »
For the promotion of our MOOCs we have created a new video. I'm very satisfied with the result. It provides a good image on the impact our courses have on people's live. Please take a look:
In 2014 we will launch at least 8 new courses. Two courses… more »
The guys from CETIS have written an interesting white paper on the next phase after MOOCs:
The key opportunity for institutions is to take the concepts developed by the MOOC experiment to date and use them to improve the quality of their face-to-face a… more »
2013 has been a busy year for me. Looking back at my blog it suprised me that I still managed to blog 101 posts (including this one) this year. That is one more than last year. I had the idea that I didn't blog enough this year. The image above shows a… more »
Phil Hill has written an interesting post about student patterns in MOOCs. I have written about this earlier this year. But Phil continued with this research and it is getting more interesting. Below the main figure:
He identified 5 different types o… more »
This fall I will speak at quiet a lot of conferences. I will speak in Leuven, Athens, Park City, Rotterdam, Nairobi, Amstelveen and Leiden. It is all about Open Education and mostly about MOOCs.
September:
19th: DigHum Summerschool I will speak th… more »
Athough a lot of people were enjoying their summer holiday, the news around MOOCs didn't stop. Here a list of interesting articles more »
Educause has published an interesting article about copyright challenges in a MOOC environment:
The intersection of copyright and the scale and delivery of MOOCs highlights the enduring tensions between academic freedom, institutional autonomy, and c… more »