The council has not yet advertised its services directly to MOOC students, she notes, adding that she believes prior-learning assessment still offers a "huge opportunity" for students to get college credit for free courses.
Contents contributed and discussions participated by Joss Richer
Google and edX Create a MOOC Site for the Rest of Us - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of ... - 1 views
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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."
Master's Degree Is New Frontier of Study Online - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Millions of dollars are poured in this project. As the article states, tuition could creep to normal levels once the initial money runs out. Still, it's an interesting experiment.
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What the article doesn't mention is this, lifted from another recent article in Chronicles: But that plan, too, could encounter institutional challenges. Benjamin Flowers, chair of the university's graduate curriculum committee, says he and his colleagues have "at no point been given, to review, any written proposal for any new graduate degree program." Officials seem to have circumvented the committee by casting the Udacity partnership as a "modification" of an existing computer-science master's program, says Mr. Flowers. He says his committee is not done with the Udacity proposal, and may raise the issue in the university's faculty senate when the body reconvenes this fall.
Tuesday | EDUCAUSE.edu - 2 views
ACE Launches Presidential Innovation Lab - 1 views
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,”
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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."
Coursera Jumps the Shark | HESA - 0 views
Coursera strikes MOOC licensing deal with Antioch University | Inside Higher Ed - 1 views
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has entered into a contract to license several of the courses
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buying permission
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Antioch will pay Coursera an undisclosed amount for permission to use several courses,
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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?
Distance & Online Subcommittee - 3 views
Distance & Online Subcommittee - 2 views
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DISTANCE & ONLINE SUBCOMMITTEE
- Joss Richer (Chair)
- Bobby Ogilvie
- Ben Steeves
- Brock Parks
- Others?
Terms of Reference for Subcommittee
Scope: Keep it technical -- look at MOOCs, social media, mobile technology
Out of scope: Implications vis-à-vis collective agreement at UNB (role of IotT committee)
Focus of subcommittee's activities:
- Build understanding & awareness re. technologies & models
- SWOT of each technology / model
- Survey other institutions in N. America
- Determine range of possible responses (courses of action)
- Evaluate implications of various responses (ignore & do nothing; compete; partner; evolve & adapt)
- Recommend course of action in UNB context
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