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Erin McCloskey

CAMPUS TECHNOLOGY August 2013 - 0 views

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    Special MOOCs issue of Campus Technology has articles about MOOCs' impact, business plans, assessment tools, and more
Erin McCloskey

MOOCs and Economic Reality - The Conversation - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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    "In "We're All to Blame for MOOCs," Patrick J. Deneen proposes a transformation away from global universities and toward identity-driven colleges as a defense against the coming shakeup from novel forms of online education. Deneen's characterization of my views on MOOCs is mostly correct, but he ascribes to me one belief I do not hold. He writes "Our contemporary educational Filene's, according to Shirky, must get big or get out." I have never said that of higher education, nor would I. My core belief instead is this: Institutions that don't keep expenses below revenues eventually collapse. Someone somewhere still has to wrestle with the bigger questions, and MOOCs are more relevant to these questions than are small colleges. This isn't because massive online classes are the future tout court, or because scale is the only way to bring cost and value into acceptable balance-neither is true-but because they are the first practical alternative to college classes as a way of learning complex things cheaply."
Erin McCloskey

Low-Cost MOOC To Grant 3 Credits at Tiffin U -- Campus Technology - 0 views

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    A school-vendor partnership will be testing out a new twist on the MOOC: offering a three-credit course in social sciences for $50, considerably less than the course costs through the university. Starting in July, Tiffin University, a 7,000-student institution in Tiffin, OH, and Altius Education, which describes itself as "part university, part technology company," will be teaming up to deliver "Foundations of Success."
Erin McCloskey

The Essence of MOOCs: Multi-Venue, Non-Linear, Learner-Initiated Learning -- Campus Tec... - 0 views

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    "MOOCs represent the logical outcome of the move toward learner-initiated learning," says Trent Batson, "If the vast majority of learners in the global connected culture are not enrolled in college, education has to extend to those new learners." Here, Batson takes another look at the phenomenon known as massive open online courses--what MOOCs are, and what they aren't.
Erin McCloskey

What Professors Can Learn From 'Hard Core' MOOC Students - Technology - The Chronicle o... - 0 views

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    "I talked at length with a handful of hard-core MOOC students, with questions big and small about why, and how much, they felt they were learning."
Erin McCloskey

CourseSites MOOC Catalog - 0 views

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    Blackboard is getting in on the MOOCs fervor by advertising a free, scalable online learning platform for open ed and MOOCs. Looks like several institutions have joined BB to offer MOOCs through this site. More competition for Coursera and the like...
Erin McCloskey

The Document: an Open Letter From San Jose State U.'s Philosophy Department - Technolog... - 1 views

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    "The move to MOOCs comes at great peril to our university. We regard such courses as a serious compromise of quality of education and...a case of social injustice".
Erin McCloskey

Coursera begins to make money | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    "Coursera, the increasingly popular provider of free online courses, is beginning to make money. The Silicon Valley-based company brought in $220,000 in the first quarter after it started charging for verified completion certificates, its co-founders said. The company also receives revenue from an Amazon.com affiliates program if users buy books suggested by professors."
Erin McCloskey

OCTEL | Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning - 1 views

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    April 3rd non-coursera MOOC: "This is an online course to help you understand better how to use technology to enhance your teaching practice. The course is aimed primarily at people teaching at Higher Education level, whether in Higher Education Institutions or Further Education Colleges. "
Erin McCloskey

EdX Releases Open Source Tool For Building Interactive MOOC Courseware -- Campus Techno... - 0 views

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    "XBlocks are a prototype second-generation application programming interface for hierarchically combined EdX courseware components such as video players and learning sequences. The XBlock source code allows course developers to combine independent XBlocks to create engaging online courses such as wiki-based collaborative learning environments and online laboratories, or create integrated education tools such as a circuit simulator for an electronics course or a molecular manipulator for teaching biology."
Erin McCloskey

Teaching to the Individual: University Offers First Adaptive MOOC Course - 1 views

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    It will be interesting to track this project. UMass Boston is offering the first adaptive MOOC: "New technology that allows online course environments to analyze how individual students learn, customizing instruction to individualized learning strategies."
Erin McCloskey

The Education Optimists: How to Evaluate a MOOC - 0 views

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    UW-Madison faculty member proposes an evaluation framework for MOOCs
Erin McCloskey

The Higher-Education Lobby Comes to Madison - The Conversation - The Chronicle of Highe... - 0 views

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    Interesting blog post by a UW-Madison professor about the impact of ACE's intervention in the credentialing question. Asks the question, have we not fully considered how to "fix" higher education, and is the jump to MOOCs too premature and misguided, especially considering the impact on disadvantaged students from around the world?
Erin McCloskey

The Most Thorough Summary (to date) of MOOC Completion Rates |e-Literate - 0 views

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    February 2013: Blog post summarizing the findings of a research project conducted by a graduate student at the Open University of the UK, whose ai was to symnthesize MOOC completion rate data from xMOOCs in particular and mostly from Coursera. This blog post offers some images and commentary, but it also links directly to the student's website.
Erin McCloskey

Five Courses Receive College Credit Recommendations: Coursera Blog - 0 views

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    Early 2013 announcement of ACE's (Am. Council on Education) endorsement of five Coursera MOOCs for credit
Erin McCloskey

Early demographic data hints at what type of student takes a MOOC | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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    Blog post addressing the following questions: Who are these students, and what do they want?
Erin McCloskey

Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching - Wired Campus - The Chr... - 0 views

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    Richard A. McKenzie, an emeritus professor of enterprise and society at the university's business school, sent a note to his students announcing that he would no longer be teaching the course, which was about to enter its fifth week. "Because of disagreements over how to best conduct this course, I've agreed to disengage from it, with regret," Mr. McKenzie wrote.
Erin McCloskey

Using mLearning and MOOCs to understand chaos, emergence, and complexity in education |... - 0 views

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    Interesting case study research on the 2011 mobiMOOC, situated in chaos theory, complexity, emergence. The authors claim that by embracing the principles of openness, connectedness, self-organization and the resulting chaos, a transformative educational paradigm was formed. Chaos = essential part of learning? How does that resonate with your experiences in MOOCs?
Erin McCloskey

Duke's Bioelectricity MOOC: Fall 2012 report - 0 views

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    Duke's report on the BioElec MOOC, including hours of effort, design/delivery/assessment issues, evaluations, completion rates, and other items. One of the only comprehensive reports about the MOOC process out there, with some numbers to ground the discussion
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