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A large-scale study of engagement with different types of video in MOOCs. Look at the recommendations.

It's coming - an online MOOC for language learners.  How good are they?  How do they teach a language to hundreds of learners at the same time?   Something to investigate and see what we think - please comment below.

The changing face of the MOOC - they will stay free for all, and charge if you want a certificate (not for credit yet).

This doesn't really apply to language level exams, but for those of you who are interested in the MOOC (Massive Online Open Course) and how to get beyond Bloom's level 1 in testing, this article has an interesting idea for multiple choice tests.

thanks for the article link, Marlene. I am collecting articles/info about assessment and testing for a board I have going on Pinterest and for a Diigo group I have set up for my students here at my school in Chicago. It's a private group, but I am happy to invite you in if you are interested.

I don't think I can annotate this article because it is a Google book and has access limitations. I have worked with Dr. Christine Appel, one of the authors of the article "Synchronous tandem language learning in a MOOC context: A study on task design and learner performance". My main interest here is: "How can we best design online synchronous tasks to achieve the optimal outcome?". Sometimes we focus too much on the tool and not so much on how we can make the most of it. The article studies real tasks to find the effects task design have in student performance.

I was in this class - wanting to see how things were handled along with what the content was - it was really a mess!  I'll be interested to see what changes they make if they offer it again.

You might want to print off the Power Searching quick sheet before starting with this course. "Gaming to learn" - this course is made up of challenges along with tips and tricks and keeping track of how you found things. A good learning challenge!

This is the first in a series - and altho hopefully you're not teaching a MOOC, these differences for teaching online may be applicable.

"The tenth annual survey, a collaborative effort between the Babson Survey Research Group and the College Board, is the leading barometer of online learning in the United States.  Based on responses from over 2,800 academic leaders..."

EdX offers free online classes and MOOCs from the world's best universities. Topics include business, computer science, finance, history, literature, math, science, statistics and more. Courses are from some of the best universities in the world including MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, UT and many other universities.

Anant Agarwal runs EdX.org, the Harvard-MIT open-education site, and he's here to talk MOOCs, those "massively open online courses" that have generated both excitement and skepticism throughout the chattering world of the digital classes. Agarwal shows a picture of a lecture hall in MIT from 50 years ago.