Very few Moocs lead to any sort of officially recognised qualification, so the recent success of the University of the People in being permitted to award degrees to students studying for its tuition-free, online-only courses marks a departure for the sector.
The University of the People, for example, states that undergraduates will study in groups of 30 to 40
he big question is whether you can [offer degrees] without tutorial support, and so at lower cost.
Moocs will have to change considerably to gain credibility and improve the quality of students' learning experience.
students will need to be extremely driven to get through.
The degree and quality of tutor interactions is seen as critical to any chance of success by others in the sector, too.
Mooc providers need to find ways to make the assessment richer, more meaningful and more reliable at scale for larger audiences."
These better options include courses from providers such as the Open University and Ed2Go that provide "quality education for specific certificate programs in a much more personalised setting at very competitive prices and, in many cases, to developing nations gratis."
Collective intelligence is the hook to your participation and existence in these networks [in my humble opinion, that is]; the social interaction what brings it all together
My network is very important to me because it provides me with an alternative platform to test my ideas, to build new ideas, and to learn from other people’s ideas.
this is a perfect shapshot of so many of us who are active online in the various social network,
While it seems that most faculty have adopted some social media use in their personal life, fewer have done so professionally. And their feelings about using social media professionally (in and out of the classroom) seem to be pretty mixed.
cademic writing is meant to be very objective and concise. The opposite of blogging