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• in Social Media
  NovoEd Brings Collaboration to Social Learning
  New startup NovoEd bring collaborative learning to the MOOC world.
  by cmimanagers / on Apr 16, 2013
• in Social Media
  Online Learning Helps Undergraduates Get Better Grades
  A pilot study allowing university students to learn via MOOC style methods reveals amazing results.
  by cmimanagers / on Apr 11, 2013
• in Social Media
  Prepr Creates a Social Learning Community
  Education institute Prepr Foundation launch a new social learning platform called Open Prepr
  by cmimanagers / on Mar 26, 2013

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “mooc”

 

• MOOC derangement syndrome.

  
  More or Less Bunk — Authority: 572
  “My biggest fear, frankly, is not a fear connected to Penn at all…It’s a fear that thinking right now about higher education, and especially public higher education, is driven by logics of efficiencies, concerns about the spiraling costs of education, et cetera. And that, too rapidly , these [MOOCs] will be ...
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• The Great Economists - A Marginal Revolution University MOOC

  
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  The Marginal Revolution University is a project started by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok at George Mason University. MRUniversity offers MOOCs about a wide range of topics in economics. One of the MOOCs released this month is Great Economists: Classical Economics and its Forerunners . The course outline places an ...
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• “Once I took the spinal cord out, the course went quite gelatinous.”

  
  More or Less Bunk — Authority: 572
  You should really go read Jeremy Adelman dissect his own World History MOOC over at the Princeton Alumni Weekly . As an added bonus, you can read me say the exact same things I’ve been writing here for almost a year now.
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• Opening the intercom with your open course participants: Tracking and engaging students

  
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  Earlier today I popped in the visual.ly site to see if they had anything new. After login in, having a quick nose I moved on. Minutes later I got this email: My initial reaction was: just got an email after logging into service hadn’t just in a long time asking if I found everything I needed … #octel — ...
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• Education: demographics and trends 2013

  
  Wednesday-Night — Authority: 143
  See Wednesday Night #1614, 6 February 2013 All about MOOCs Whether you see them as a catalyst for change or mostly as hype, MOOCs are fundamentally different from other forays into open online learning. Will your college go out of business before you graduate? Unless your parents are wealthy or you quality ...
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• Redefining MOOC

  
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  If you haven’t read Audrey Watters’ coverage of the Coursera / Chegg deal , I highly recommend it. The short version is, DRM’ed commercial content is making its way into MOOCs, and this stands to make all involved – including the professors – quite wealthy. While I completely and fully support recent calls ...
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• Amherst and San Jose State University -- two approaches to MOOCs

  
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  There has been recent news and controversy surrounding the relationship of San Jose State University and MOOC providers Udacity and edX . I was at a conference the week before last and met Catheryn Cheal, Associate Vice President and Senior Academic Technology Officer at SJSU, who is administering the MOOC ...
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• Massively Open Online Medicine: Bad Idea or Just Before Its Time?--David Harlow

  
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  The new darling of the online educational community is Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). The example which figures most prominently in the popular imagination is the Khan Academy, though its founder says otherwise, noting that MOOCs are merely online transplantations of traditional courses , while Khan Academy ...
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• Webinar: Overview of cMOOC platform trends and creating your own open online course using WordPress 15th May 16:30BST

  
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  As part of ocTEL on the 15th May at 16:30BST ( check in your own timezone ) I’ll be doing a webinar on platforms for Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), in particular focusing on some of the connectivist style recipes I’m aware of. As part of this I’ll be taking participants behind the scenes of the ocTEL ...
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• 5 Thoughts About MOOCs

  
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  There is no doubt to me that the big buzz right now in education is the MOOC. That stands for Massive Open Online Course. They are a fairly new innovation and yet are creating excitement, or angst depending on who you are. Some people look at them as the savior of education and some look at them as a waste of ...
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• Tapping the rhizomes of dotlife: Creating an RSS search feed for Scoop.it posts

  
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  This was a useful post to write and reflect on some ideas. If you are here because you want to make RSS feeds for Scoop.it posts searches here’s the  Feed+ Machine Chrome Web App  and the standalone  Feed+ Machine App Recently when reflecting on my career path two key moments came to mind. First around 1999 ...
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• Journalism & Digital Education Roundup, May 7, 2013

  
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  1. Schools act to prevent high-tech cheating on standardized tests (LA Times) 2. The best in ed-tech tools (EdSurge) 3. Who’s afraid of the big bad MOOC? (The Chronicle of Higher Education) 4. The digital lives of teens, and why schools should take note (Edutopia) 5. Why online courses (really) need an instructional ...
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• MOOCs, Online Education and Universities

  
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  I laughed at this story from The Chronicle of Higher Education , "Faculty Backlash Grows Against Online Courses". According to the story, philosophy professors at San Jose State rejected the administrations request to use an online course from a renown Harvard Professor. The SJS professors argument was that this was ...
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• Disrupting Education

  
  The Eponymous Pickle — Authority: 153
  In CACM:   Research on the ongoing and imminent disruption of education.  A model that has existed for 800 years sees itself threatened.  What will make the new methods work?  How will they be blended with traditional learning and qualification?
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• El tsunami de los MOOC, ¿útil para Recursos Humanos?

  
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  Desde hace unos años estamos siendo testigos de un tsunami, tal como lo acuñó John Hennessy, presidente de la Universidad de Stanford. He de reconocer que al principio no le di importancia, pero efectivamente no cesaban de llegarme oleadas de información sobre los MOOC.
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• OPEN EDUCATION: MARKING MOOCS

  
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  Reblogged from ANIMAL MY SOUL: The issue of how a mark MOOCs is a moot point at the moment. As Europeans race to play catch up with their U.S. counterparts, (no educational body left behind!?), two glaring questions rise to the fore in many articles about these massive open online courses. ...
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• Massive Data In Education – For Students

  
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  One of the side effects of moving education online is you can track virtually everything a student does, from mouse clicks to how long they spend on a page of information. All of this data is starting to be analyzed in a process called Learning Analytics. The theory is you will be able to determine how students learn ...
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• The Massive Open University

  
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  They were amateurish videos, often black and white, sometimes just a disembodied hand writing simple equations on a blackboard as a quirky voice from off screen gave well practiced short lectures highlighting the essential learning elements. The pedagogy was revolutionary, university level material freely accessible ...
  2 weeks ago

• New wine for new bottles -- innovation from modular teaching material and MOOCs

  
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  I gave a talk on "Innovation from modular teaching material and MOOCs" at the Sloan Consortium 6th Annual International Symposium on Emerging Technology for Online Learning (#et4online). The slides from the talk are now online here . Each slide has text notes so they should stand on their own.  The presentation ...
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• Links

  
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  Kazim Ali in the Oberlin Alumni Magazine (Spring 2012): Poetry is Dangerous : Because of my recycling, the bomb squad came, the state police came. Because of my recycling, buildings were evacuated, classes were canceled, campus was closed. No. Not because of my recycling. Because of my dark body. No. Not because ...
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