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In what way is a MOOC a course?
Powerpoint Notes Mooc's and the Workplace - 2 views
I'm going to discuss MOOC's and how they relate to the workplace, specifically 1. How they help students to attain jobs a. Allows for specific learning in order to obtain job more specific tha...
What is a Massive Open Online Course Anyway? MN+R Attempts a Definition - moocnewsandre... - 0 views
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it has assignments and evaluations built in the way that a college class has assignments and exams.
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Most MOOCs have quizzes along the way and exams at the end, but more subjective assignments, such as written essays or creative projects, are also possible.
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A Massive Open Online Course is basically an online course anyone can take. There are video lectures, assignments, and quizzes. There is no cost, and a MOOC course can have from a few hundred to more than 100,000 students. Lastly, some MOOCs have a start and an end date and others are a work at your own pace.
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I think my topic was too narrow. I could not find enough on the "location" aspect for it to be its own slide. So my topic could be more of a reinforcement to the idea of MOOCS. One article i found ...
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The advantages of MOOCs, says Chew, are low cost and flexibility. “You can take a course anytime, anywhere,” he says, “as long as you have an Internet connection.”The Internet, says Grim, connects MOOCs students in other ways.“Students can organize online discussion boards,” she says. “They can get together with each other and ask questions and figure things out on their own. In the process they can get to know people all over the world.”MOOCs have caused “great turbulence” in American higher education, Chew and Grim conclude in their paper, and could soon do so in other countries.“With the open environment of the Internet, and the large profits that can possibly be made using MOOCs as an inexpensive alternative to higher education,” they write, “it is just a matter of time before the effects currently being felt in the U.S. spread throughout the world.”“I don’t really think MOOCS will be a revolution,” says Chew, “but universities will definitely need to keep an eye on MOOCS, how [this] evolves and how it can affect our current mode of teaching.”
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"The advantages of MOOCs, says Chew, are low cost and flexibility. "You can take a course anytime, anywhere," he says, "as long as you have an Internet connection.""
http://rehab-workshop.org/IDEEpapers/idee2014_submission_17.pdf - 0 views
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They are hailed by many as a solution for the developing world's lack of access to education because MOOCs can provide learning opportunities to a massive number of learners from anywhere in the world as long as they can access the course through Internet
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They are hailed by many as a solution for the developing world's lack of access to education because MOOCs can provide learning opportunities to a massive number of learners from anywhere in the world as long as they can access the course through Internet
Disruption Ahead: What MOOCs Will Mean for MBA Programs - Knowledge@Wharton - 1 views
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The big insight in the first MOOCs was that by chunking the video, by making it just a few minutes long and making it semi synchronous — that is, available on demand during a week of the course — you get a much greater adoption and viewing of that video as opposed to, for instance, having to take a video cassette out of a library, check it out, take it home, plug it in, fast forward to the right section. That friction substantially diminished the usefulness of video when it was first introduced.
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But I also have to point out that there is a fair bit of waste in what we do in the classroom. That has to do with the fact that different students learn at different rates. When a student struggles on the MOOC, they can just rewind or they can just read something and then catch up, whereas in the classroom, you’re constrained by a common pace with everyone. So you really do gain efficiency.
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I'm having a hard time finding things directly related to the "location" but I did find a few articles with some useful information. So I think I'll have to change my theme to something else, due to lack of information on the "location" aspect.
Udacity Blog: Sam Romano tells Udacity about landing dream job at Google - 0 views
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A video where a student got a job through Udacity (A MOOC site) passing on his resume to companies.
Providers of Free MOOC's Now Charge Employers for Access to Student Data - Technology -... - 0 views
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Coursera, which works with high-profile colleges to provide massive open online courses, or MOOC's, announced its employee-matching service, called Coursera Career Services. Some high-profile tech companies have already signed up
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.
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learning is increasingly becoming self-directed, and MOOCs offer the flexibility to employees to choose what they want to learn
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Adoption of MOOCs has also helped us encourage social and informal learning within the organization.
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MOOCs: a quick background - 0 views
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They create something native to the Web that takes advantage of what the Web can do, rather than simply trying to mimic a classroom virtually.
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cMOOC and xMOOC.
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The first MOOC was a cMOOC, taught by two Canadian scholars, George Siemens and Stephen Downes
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Success and Use of M.O.O.C's in the Workplace. - 2 views
The 3rd highlight i made in the "Back to School" article brings up a good point. M.O.O.C's would be useful for those who graduate college with a degree in Film for instance, but choose to become an...
Back To School: How Recent College Graduates Can Use MOOCs to Land A First Job - moocne... - 1 views
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An online review conducted by the Association of American Colleges and Universities reports that 95% of employers surveyed look to hire college graduates who can contribute to innovation in the workplace
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Let’s say you are a recent liberal arts grad with the career goal of becoming a management consultant. Your education has prepared you well in terms of soft skills required for this type of job. A creative way to attain a competitive advantage over other aspiring junior analysts is to enroll in a MOOC that helps you learn more about the business world you’ll be working in.
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According to a report by the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), most companies expect to hire only 2.1 percent more college graduates from the class of 2013 than they did from the class of 2012. With the competitive nature of the job market in general, recent college graduates may have an experience deficit that shrinks their opportunity to compete with experienced job seekers.
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elearnspace › MOOCs for the win! - 0 views
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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.
A Short History of MOOCs and Distance Learning - moocnewsandreviews.com - 0 views
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However, not much commentary looks at the history of MOOCs with an approach to understanding why so many universities are creating them and massive numbers of students are joining them.
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An influence to many other ideas in the future, the Open University revitalized distance education because it combined correspondence instruction, supplementary broadcasting and publishing, residential short courses and support services at local and regional levels.
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Much of the MOOC philosophy is based on their special approach to higher education.
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Additional Quality topic 7 Things our opposition could potentially use against us the l... - 3 views
We can always argue that the further technology advances, MOOCs will become stronger and more effective. They have only existed since the mid-nineties, so the kinks are still being worked out.
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Great work! The list of schools is vital to our argument.
MOOC Review - Algorithms: Design and Analysis, Part I - moocnewsandreviews.com - 1 views
Taken from Ebscohost - 2 views
The current training scenarios in higher education are moving toward a new format that combines three basic principles: free-of-charge, massive and ubiquity This new type of formative macro-scena...
Avant Agarwal Video of one of my sources for the quality of MOOC's - 2 views
http://www.ted.com/talks/anant_agarwal_why_massively_open_online_courses_still_matter
