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adrewdomville

MOOCs: Top 10 Sites for Free Education With Elite Universities - 2 views

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Massive open online courses education Online

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  • Access to free courses has allowed students to obtain a level of education that many only could dream of in the past.  This has changed the face of education.  In The New York Times article Instruction for Masses Knocked Down Campus Walls, author Tamar Lewin stated, “in the past few months hundreds of thousands of motivated students around the world who lack access to elite universities have been embracing them as a path toward sophisticated skills and high-paying jobs, without paying tuition or collecting a college degree.”
  • Although MOOCs are the latest trend, not everyone agrees that schools should offer them.  Joshua Kim Insight Higher Ed article Why Every University Does Not Need a MOOC noted that offering free material may not make sense for the individual university.  It may be more important to stand out in other ways.
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elearnspace › MOOCs for the win! - 0 views

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foundation creation MOOC motive

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  • It might be helpful to take a quick step back and talk about why Stephen and I started with open online courses. We were both at a Desire2Learn conference in Memphis in 2008. And we were both tired of arguing about connectivism (“is it a theory”). We decided that experiencing networked learning was important to understanding networked learning. Instead of talking connectivism, we wanted to create an experience that was essentially connectivist: open, distributed, learner-defined, social, and complex.
rickjackson2014

Using MOOCs For Employee Development and Organizational Learning - moocnewsandreviews.com - 1 views

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  • We used to rely on traditional classroom-based solutions and off the shelf e-learning, which may not always be contextual to the learner or may lack the level of engagement that a learner in 2013 demands. There was also a lot of premium put on content. In today’s environment, building context is more vital. Robert McGuire What are some of the roles and responsibilities of the people who have participated so far? Sunder Ramachandran We have encouraged employees across levels to take courses based on their interests. We also recommend courses based on what could potentially appeal to a certain segment of employees. For example, operational executives were recommended the Intro To Operations Management course. Likewise, we did a classroom session on finance for non-finance managers and recommended the Intro To Finance and Intro To Financial Accounting MOOCs as follow up courses. We also have a monthly lunch & learn session for our senior managers called “Blackboard,” and often MOOCs are recommended as follow up assignments to themes that get discussed.
  • learning is increasingly becoming self-directed, and MOOCs offer the flexibility to employees to choose what they want to learn
  • Adoption of MOOCs has also helped us encourage social and informal learning within the organization.
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  • Yes, it does. With the advent of MOOCs over the years, what continues to hold paramount importance for the participants is the credibility of professors and the pedigree of the university. The possibility of certification motivates the learner and reduces the dropout rates.
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