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Finally the MOOC’s on the Horizon HE report. Late?
Next february will be published the new Horizon Report HE. About the technologies to watch in Higher Education for the next years. In thi… -
Horizon on MOOC’s: The demand for personalized learning is not adequately supported by current technology or practices ow.ly/gYTkM
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Snow closes thousands of schools bbc.in/10gkj9N
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The End of Education As We Know It
Using online media, adventurous educators are engaging students and teachers in fresh ways. Imagine being 6 or 7 years old again, learnin… -
The Crisis in Higher Education | MIT Technology Review
A hundred years ago, higher education seemed on the verge of a technological revolution. The spread of a powerful new communication netwo… -
If We Profs Don’t Reform Higher Ed, We’ll Be Re-Formed (and we won’t like it) | HASTAC
At the end of this post, I’ll include some positive ideas for what we can do to address the issues of higher education reform, on an indi… -
State of the Higher Education LMS Market: A Graphical View –
The transformation of the higher education LMS market continues, and I expect more changes over the next 2 – 3 years. However, it seems t… -
The Year of the MOOC
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Daphne Koller: What we’re learning from online education | Video on TED.com
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MOOCs, it seems, are driving us to distraction. The objects of so much current investment, fiscal and psychological, if MOOCs (massive op…
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Massive Open Online Courses Are Multiplying at a Rapid Pace
The paint is barely dry, yet edX, the nonprofit start-up from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has 370,000 students… -
7 Things You Should Know About MOOCs | EDUCAUSE.edu
A massively open online course (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to virtually any person-and as many of them-who w… -
Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) | EDUCAUSE.edu
A massive open online course (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to any person who wants to take a course, with no l… -
Fears and tears
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Everybody Wants to MOOC the World –
You may have seen this week’s announcement from Instructure of their new Canvas Network to support MOOCs and other open courses. Blackboa… -
The MOOC movement is not an indicator of educational evolution …
Dec 3, 2012 … Somehow, recently, a lot of people have taken an interest in the broadcast of canned educational materials, and this pr… -
Canvas Network – Are the LMS and MOOC Markets Colliding? –
Six weeks ago I posted a new graphic on the LMS market which included MOOCs in the same view as traditional LMS solutions. In the comment… -
Caution on the MOOC Movement – The EvoLLLution | The EvoLLLution
Caution on the MOOC Movement For the last eight months, the world has been captivated by the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) rage. Cour… -
Students taking free online courses offered by the startup company Coursera have reported dozens of incidents of plagiarism, even though …
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Why We Freak Out About Some Technologies but Not Others | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
There’s often a side effect to new technologies: moral panic. Facebook causes narcissism! Texting is making us illiterate! But the funny … -
Looking for a MOOC Model
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What is a MOOC? What are the different types of MOOC? xMOOCs and cMOOCs
The acronym “MOOC” has been in vogue recently, with lots of discussion about organisations like udacity, coursera and edX. The acronym st… -
Three Kinds of MOOCs ” Lisa’s (Online) Teaching Blog
We are so into MOOCs now that it’s too much for me. Gotta apply Ockham’s Razor 2.0 to this stuff. At the Ed-Media conference, I attended … -
Coursera, Pedagogy, and the Two Faces of MOOCs : E1n1verse
Oct 19, 2012 … MOOCs to the left of me and MOOCs to the right of me. What does it all mean? A look at Coursera, pedagogical approache… -
What is and what is not a MOOC: A picture of family resemblance …
Aug 14, 2012 … You are here: Home › MOOC › What is and what is not a MOOC: A picture of family resemblance (working undefinition) #mo… -
For librarians and Libraries
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MOOCs: Where are the Librarians? | HASTAC
On August 3 rd, I participated in a Twitter discussion with Hybrid Pedagogy and David Stavens of Udacity. I posed a question that seemed … -
The implications for libraries of recent global trends in open online education
This serves as Part 1 of a two part post and is really a plea for advice or debate. I’d like to read your ideas, thoughts, suggestions, q… -
The implications for libraries of recent global trends in open online education (Part 2)
With assistance from my colleagues at UTS Library and the commenters on the first part of this post, here is a listing of the implication… -
It seems that everybody is talking about massive open online courses (MOOCs). Steven J. Bell sang their praises during a doom and gloom A…
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I’m glad that UVa reinstated their president. Seems like the only logical action after the backlash. I keep waiting for “the real reason”…
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hangingtogether.org ” Blog Archive ” The Flipped Library
November 5th, 2012 by Jim My colleague, Lorcan Dempsey, did a very nice synthesis of “MOOCs, Libraries, OCLC” for the OCLC Board of Trust… -
MOOCs and Librarians – Emerging Technologies
It has been the summer of the London Olympic Games The summer of relentless heat And the Summer of MOOCs Everyone is commenting / questio… -
Libraries Transformed: Research on the changing role of libraries
Lee Rainie will describe the latest findings of the Pew Internet Project about libraries and the new mix of services they are offering th…