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Scaling MOOCs

A yelp for MOOCs

mooc.org is an edX destination through a partnership with Google to power the online learning revolution.

September 26, 2013: 6:00pm - 8:00pm A Fireside Chat with MIT and edX leaders, Sanjay Sarma, Director, Office of Digital Learning, MIT and Kathy Pugh, Vice President of Academics, edX Registration and refreshments: 6:00-6:30pm Program 6:30-8:00pm Moderated by Nish Sonwalkar, Editor-in-Chief, MOOC FORUM Journal The Educational Technology field is exploding with innovation, and in response the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge brings you a look at this field with two experts from MIT.

Another one on brief economics of MOOCs for institutions

speculates about how employers will view participation in MOOCs

This examines the hype implied in MOOCs around the world

Europeans examining a very important feature in MOOCs: credit transfer and its formal system

Kind of ironic, but "old tech" using new tech to promote sales of old tech. Basically Elsevier is giving students in an edX course a free, static version of one of its textbooks. Students then see a link to purchase a discounted, dynamic version--and it seemed to bump up sales! Also interesting is that edX gets a cut of the book sales--maybe another avenue for them to become sustainable, in addition to charging for certification.

Sounds promising!

One of the big problems for MOOCs and other online platforms has been cheating. These five technologies can be implemented to counter online cheating.

"There is a danger that MOOCs will reinforce rather than disrupt a two-tier education system in the US, and eventually in the UK, with campus-based learning as premium elite education and online learning as a basic offering."

moving towards new models in higher education

Websites are springing up that sort and collect reviews of MOOC courses. Meta-MOOC's essentially. Interesting how quickly an ecosystem can begin to develop around a new technology.

"Coursera announced its employee-matching service, called Coursera Career Services. Some high-profile tech companies have already signed up-including Facebook and Twitter"

"Omnihours enables you to schedule video-chat meetings with students in your MOOC class. A Linkedin account is required for registration."

MOOCs and their shorsightedness.

Using MOOCs and technology to further stratify education

Coursera's "Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application" crashed in its first week. Beyond the obvious irony, there are some interesting lessons to learn here.