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The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

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Harley Chang on 21 Nov 13

Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Udacity, has openly admitted that his company's MOOC courses are a lousy replacement for actual university class and instead will be taking his company to focus more on corporate training. I personally will reserve further judgement until after I finish the readings for next week.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Udacity, has openly admitted that his company's MOOC courses are a lousy replacement for actual university class and instead will be taking his company to focus more on corporate training. I personally will reserve further judgement until after I finish the readings for next week.</div>

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Grif Peterson on 21 Nov 13

I posted this article in G+ a day or two ago. Some of the better commentary surrounding this article below. Tressie McMillan Cottom: "Thrun says it wasn't a failure. It was a lesson. But for the students who invested time and tuition in an experiment foisted on them by the of stewards public highered trusts, failure is a lesson they didn't need." Rebecca Schuman: "Thrun blames neither the corporatization of the university nor the MOOC's use of unqualified "student mentors" in assessment. Instead, he blames the students themselves for being so poor." Stephen Downes: "I think that what amuses me most about the reaction to the Thrun story is the glowing descriptions of him have only intensified. "The King of MOOCs." "The Genius Godfather of MOOCs." Really now. As I and the many other people working toward the same end have pointed out repeatedly, the signal change in MOOCs is openess, not whatever it was (hubris? VC money?) that Thrun brought to the table. Rebecca Schuman claims this is a victory for "the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar." It's not that, no more than the Titanic disaster was a victory for wind-powered passenger transportation."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">I posted this article in G+ a day or two ago. Some of the better commentary surrounding this article below. Tressie McMillan Cottom: "Thrun says it wasn't a failure. It was a lesson. But for the students who invested time and tuition in an experiment foisted on them by the of stewards public highered trusts, failure is a lesson they didn't need." Rebecca Schuman: "Thrun blames neither the corporatization of the university nor the MOOC's use of unqualified "student mentors" in assessment. Instead, he blames the students themselves for being so poor." Stephen Downes: "I think that what amuses me most about the reaction to the Thrun story is the glowing descriptions of him have only intensified. "The King of MOOCs." "The Genius Godfather of MOOCs." Really now. As I and the many other people working toward the same end have pointed out repeatedly, the signal change in MOOCs is openess, not whatever it was (hubris? VC money?) that Thrun brought to the table. Rebecca Schuman claims this is a victory for "the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar." It's not that, no more than the Titanic disaster was a victory for wind-powered passenger transportation."</div>

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Molly Wasser on 29 Nov 13

Grif - where did the Stephen Downes quote come from ? I read the Rebecca Schuman article and don't really agree with her. To expand on the Schuman quote you posted - it's really interesting how she says the massive lecture format doesn't work but then provides two examples of massive technology that do work - texting and World of Warcraft. This relates directly to some of what we talked about earlier this semester. I don't think it's the 'massive,' as Schuman implies, that causes the failure of a MOOC. It's part of the design. Once the design is better and more engaging, then MOOCs may find that they have higher retention rates. Schuman: Successful education needs personal interaction and accountability, period. This is, in fact, the same reason students feel annoyed, alienated, and anonymous in large lecture halls and thus justified in sexting and playing World of Warcraft during class-and why the answer is not the MOOC, but the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar that has neither a sexy acronym nor a potential for huge corporate partnerships.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Grif - where did the Stephen Downes quote come from ? I read the Rebecca Schuman article and don't really agree with her. To expand on the Schuman quote you posted - it's really interesting how she says the massive lecture format doesn't work but then provides two examples of massive technology that do work - texting and World of Warcraft. This relates directly to some of what we talked about earlier this semester. I don't think it's the 'massive,' as Schuman implies, that causes the failure of a MOOC. It's part of the design. Once the design is better and more engaging, then MOOCs may find that they have higher retention rates. Schuman: Successful education needs personal interaction and accountability, period. This is, in fact, the same reason students feel annoyed, alienated, and anonymous in large lecture halls and thus justified in sexting and playing World of Warcraft during class-and why the answer is not the MOOC, but the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar that has neither a sexy acronym nor a potential for huge corporate partnerships.</div>

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Grif Peterson on 09 Dec 13

The Downes quote was from OLDaily, which is a daily listserve of his that I subscribe too. I think the difference between texting/WoW and MOOCs is that, while both have many many users, the former two have means in which those groups are disaggregated into smaller units that are largely responsible for the UX/individual growth that goes on. I agree with you that massive is not necessarily the failure, in fact, I think it's the best thing they have going for them. However, until the design can leverage meaningful collaboration, like WoW and texting, the massive will remain a burden.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Downes quote was from OLDaily, which is a daily listserve of his that I subscribe too. I think the difference between texting/WoW and MOOCs is that, while both have many many users, the former two have means in which those groups are disaggregated into smaller units that are largely responsible for the UX/individual growth that goes on. I agree with you that massive is not necessarily the failure, in fact, I think it's the best thing they have going for them. However, until the design can leverage meaningful collaboration, like WoW and texting, the massive will remain a burden.</div>

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MOOC: Massive Open Online Course | - 2 views

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MOOCs, or "Massive Open Online Courses", are a relatively new model of distance e-learning where hundreds and sometimes thousands of participants all take an online course together. The instructional mode of the courses is fairly decentralized; since there are so many participants in the course, the individual students cannot typically expect to have much individual interaction with the professors running the course. As a result, individual members of the MOOCs take on roles of peer teachers, and these roles are assumed organically (i.e. nobody invites them to become teachers in the course, they simply step up and take the reins). The assessment of MOOCs is extremely flexible; there are no grades and people only participate in what they want to participate in. The theory is that the MOOC creators put the learning environment into place, and the participants learn what they want to learn; less participation simply means that they will not learn as much. Thought this was a though-provoking model of eLearning and the changing role of the instructor in an eLearning environment.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">MOOCs, or "Massive Open Online Courses", are a relatively new model of distance e-learning where hundreds and sometimes thousands of participants all take an online course together. The instructional mode of the courses is fairly decentralized; since there are so many participants in the course, the individual students cannot typically expect to have much individual interaction with the professors running the course. As a result, individual members of the MOOCs take on roles of peer teachers, and these roles are assumed organically (i.e. nobody invites them to become teachers in the course, they simply step up and take the reins). The assessment of MOOCs is extremely flexible; there are no grades and people only participate in what they want to participate in. The theory is that the MOOC creators put the learning environment into place, and the participants learn what they want to learn; less participation simply means that they will not learn as much. Thought this was a though-provoking model of eLearning and the changing role of the instructor in an eLearning environment.</div>

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Baku FC name 21-year-old as manager based on computer game experience | Metro.co.uk - 0 views

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Brandon Pousley on 30 Nov 12

Exciting to see how a massive online computer simulation game has enabled a young internet football manager to gain credibility in a real league. This has important implications for other educational simulations.

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MIT Unleashes New Online Game for Math and Science | MindShift - 2 views

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Gates-funded MIT massive game

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Caitlin Feeley on 30 Aug 13

My colleagues at the Ed Arcade are designing this game - if anyone's interested, I can get you supplemental information.

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A Look At Google's Massive Library Of Free Lesson Plans - 1 views

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Harvey Shaw on 06 Nov 12

Google's move into education continues apace. Lots of content here, but as often happens, no enforcement of a specific pedagogy standard, so caveat emptor.

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Will academia be destroyed by massive open online courses? - 2 views

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Library Of Congress Unveils Massive Common Core Resource Center - Edudemic - 0 views

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Brandon Pousley on 03 Dec 12

Government sponsored Common Core resources for teachers. I searched around quickly and it looks like a great resource to find original documents, sources etc.

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Size Isn't Everything - 2 views

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For academe's future, think mash-ups not MOOC's

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Hannah Lesk on 14 Dec 12

Terrific article. I love the way they articulate some of the criticisms of MOOCs we've talked about: "Making courseware "massive" may dangle the eventual possibility of trillion-dollar profits (even if they have yet to materialize). But it does not "fix" what is broken in our system of education. It massively scales what's broken."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Terrific article. I love the way they articulate some of the criticisms of MOOCs we've talked about: "Making courseware "massive" may dangle the eventual possibility of trillion-dollar profits (even if they have yet to materialize). But it does not "fix" what is broken in our system of education. It massively scales what's broken."</div>

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Massive Open Online Courses Are Multiplying at a Rapid Pace - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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Massive Open Online Courses Are Multiplying at a Rapid Pace - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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The Year of the MOOC

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Tomoko Matsukawa on 04 Nov 12

Amazing graph you get on "google trends" when you type 'MOOC'

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Massive Open Online Courses Prove Popular, if Not Lucrative Yet - NYTimes.com - 2 views

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""No one's got the model that's going to work yet," said James Grimmelmann, a New York Law School professor who specializes in computer and Internet law. "I expect all the current ventures to fail, because the expectations are too high. People think something will catch on like wildfire. But more likely, it's maybe a decade later that somebody figures out how to do it and make money." "

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">""No one's got the model that's going to work yet," said James Grimmelmann, a New York Law School professor who specializes in computer and Internet law. "I expect all the current ventures to fail, because the expectations are too high. People think something will catch on like wildfire. But more likely, it's maybe a decade later that somebody figures out how to do it and make money." "</div>

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Massive Open Online Courses Prove Popular, if Not Lucrative Yet - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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2 Ways MOOCs Just Became The Schools Of The Future | Edudemic - 0 views

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Laura Johnson on 10 Sep 12

related to massively online open courses as mentioned in Dede's article for 9/10

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Top Universities Test the Online Appeal of Free - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) - More online courses from top universities. Not surprisingly, most people signing up are from other countries. How long these courses will remain free? At some point, will the universities try to make money from online courses?

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cMOOCs and xMOOCs - key differences - 2 views

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A good overview of the two different pedagogies behind MOOCs.

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Josh Tappan on 25 Oct 13

Another type of online learning platform: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2013/08/27/ut-austin-psychology-professors-prepare-worlds-first-synchronous-massive-online

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Coursera Hits 1 Million Students, With Udacity Close Behind - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 1 views

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Updates stats on the largest "Massive Open Online Courses: or MOOC's. Coursera leading Udacity....

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MOOCs are multiplying rapidly - 0 views

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One of two articles in the NYTimes they just posted about MOOCs. This one talks about the revolution!

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The Year of the MOOC - 1 views

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A description of the current status of MOOC's for a broad audience. As well as the predictions on how this will change the state of education etc...

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Make your own story by filtering massive information available through existing social networking platforms.

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Luis von Ahn: Massive-scale online collaboration | TED TALK - 2 views

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I loved this Ted Talk and the implications it has for learning languages.

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The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

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