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Coursera strikes MOOC licensing deal with Antioch University | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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Antioch will pay Coursera an undisclosed amount for permission to use several courses,
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Joss Richer on 21 Feb 13

I wonder if it would be necessary to strike a deal with one of the MOOC 'distributors' to incorporate one of their MOOCs into our curriculum. What if, for example, UNB decided to incorporate a MOOC as resource material in one of our own courses, and leave it to a TA to manage discussions, assignments, tests, tutorials and so on at this end?

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I wonder if it would be necessary to strike a deal with one of the MOOC 'distributors' to incorporate one of their MOOCs into our curriculum. What if, for example, UNB decided to incorporate a MOOC as resource material in one of our own courses, and leave it to a TA to manage discussions, assignments, tests, tutorials and so on at this end?</div>

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Predatory Learning: Reforming Education for the Wrong Reasons - 1 views

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This isn’t a drill
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you can see and feel what happens to a region when its past glories have badly faded and no new ones have emerged
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Local people, connected to their communities, built successful schools
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Columnists such as the New York Times’s Thomas Friedman wax lyrical about the possibilities. Words such as “transformational,” “disruptive,” “radical,” “irreversible,” and “inevitable” appear
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Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are the new thing. The creations of technology titans at prestigious universities
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Why all of these disruptions?
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Faculty resistance to MOOCs is growing.
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If MOOCs were offered as an experiment, as an approach to be tested and evaluated and refined, that would be one thing. But MOOCs are being sold, hustled really, as the best and brightest breakthrough since the printing press.
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we have long known what to do and are now suffering from the abandonment of the good methods we once pioneered and practiced.
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Colleges strapped for cash are already cutting staff, introducing MOOCs, and hoping for the best. Once the instructors have been removed and the budgets have been trimmed, it will be difficult to return to what we could call a more relational approach to education.
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The once-stable financial foundation of the nation’s education system has collapsed.
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Two thirds of the more than one million faculty members in the nation are adjuncts
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American students now have nearly $900 billion in outstanding student loans,
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the “Finnish miracle”
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Teaching jobs are more sought-after than medicine, law, business, or high-tech careers.
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The Finnish emphasis on the “supply side” of the education experience—the recruitment, training, and support of teachers—is striking.
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In every successful educational culture, something bigger and deeper than market efficiency or ideological assertions from government motivates those involved.
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Sue Hellman on 12 Jun 13

Why are universities 'ripe for disruption'? Their mission has been undercut by (1) political demands for reform, (2) pressures to cut costs, (3) "smothering student debt loads", and (4) "mistaken priorities". The result has been the abandonment of good methods, disconnection from the community which gave it life, and the loss of central purpose. Enter the MOOC.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Why are universities 'ripe for disruption'? Their mission has been undercut by (1) political demands for reform, (2) pressures to cut costs, (3) "smothering student debt loads", and (4) "mistaken priorities". The result has been the abandonment of good methods, disconnection from the community which gave it life, and the loss of central purpose. Enter the MOOC.</div>

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Google and edX Create a MOOC Site for the Rest of Us - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of ... - 1 views

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Joss Richer on 18 Sep 13

That's upping the ante! "Previously, Google tried online education with Course Builder, a free tool for building MOOCs; the company plans to fold that project into MOOC.org, which will live on Google servers. The company has pledged to devote its development expertise to MOOC.org's open-source platform, which will be called Open edX."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">That's upping the ante! "Previously, Google tried online education with Course Builder, a free tool for building MOOCs; the company plans to fold that project into MOOC.org, which will live on Google servers. The company has pledged to devote its development expertise to MOOC.org's open-source platform, which will be called Open edX."</div>

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Bev Bramble on 18 Sep 13

EdX seems to be using a more thoughtful and effective approach to MOOCs than is typical.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">EdX seems to be using a more thoughtful and effective approach to MOOCs than is typical.</div>

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MOOCs and D2L - 1 views

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Sue Hellman on 03 Sep 13

"… potential driving research questions to position a MOOC initiative on our campus [i.e. UWM]. One of those was "Can MOOCs be offered within D2L to introduce and orient potential students to our online programs?"

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"… potential driving research questions to position a MOOC initiative on our campus [i.e. UWM]. One of those was "Can MOOCs be offered within D2L to introduce and orient potential students to our online programs?"</div>

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https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/240193/13-117... - 0 views

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Rodrigo Gutierrez Hermelo on 20 Sep 13

Some specific issues for MOOCs in HE and FE are handled in separate sections:  Education theory: are MOOCs an innovation or a continuation of prior ODL  Futurelearn - the UK MOOC platform: what will it offer  FE - can the sector profit from the maturing of MOOC formats  Completion and drop-out rates and metrics for MOOC quality  Technology evolution: how will learner analytics develop to enhance MOOCs

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Some specific issues for MOOCs in HE and FE are handled in separate sections:  Education theory: are MOOCs an innovation or a continuation of prior ODL  Futurelearn - the UK MOOC platform: what will it offer  FE - can the sector profit from the maturing of MOOC formats  Completion and drop-out rates and metrics for MOOC quality  Technology evolution: how will learner analytics develop to enhance MOOCs </div>

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Higher ed leaders urge slow down of MOOC train | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views

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“It would be a tragedy if you substituted MOOCs in their current form for regular courses,”
- Joss Richer on 16 Jul 13
  
  Maybe. But it could be a boon if you substituted MOOCs for existing *online* courses! The production values of many MOOCs far exceed those of run-of-the-mill online courses. We should strive to emulate MOOCs as far as these values are concerned.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Maybe. But it could be a boon if you substituted MOOCs for existing *online* courses! The production values of many MOOCs far exceed those of run-of-the-mill online courses. We should strive to emulate MOOCs as far as these values are concerned.</div>
  
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ACE announced a group of university administrators who will be studying technology innovations, including MOOCs.
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" 'me too'-ism, where innovation itself becomes the goal without a clear and compelling strategic purpose."
- Joss Richer on 16 Jul 13
  
  This is a clear danger. One we should be wary of.
  
  <div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is a clear danger. One we should be wary of.</div>
  
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Joss Richer on 16 Jul 13

I think we're on the right track as a group, spending time looking into how we carry out business at UNB re. distance/online ed first, then deciding whether we want to jump on the bandwagon.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I think we're on the right track as a group, spending time looking into how we carry out business at UNB re. distance/online ed first, then deciding whether we want to jump on the bandwagon.</div>

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