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Tentativo di vedere quali dei corsi Coursera che offrono soltanto la certificazione "Signature Track" a pagamento sono e non sono disponibili per la traduzione nella Global Translator Community di Coursera 14 signature-track-only couses not on GTC: - New World, New Map: GPS for Today's Music Industry https://www.coursera.org/course/gpsmusic . West Virginia University - Re-Enchanting the City - Designing the Human Habitat https://www.coursera.org/course/city . UNSW Australia - Pre-Calculus https://www.coursera.org/course/precalculus . University of California, Irvine - The American South: Its Stories, Music, and Art https://www.coursera.org/course/south . The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Foundations of Virtual Instruction https://www.coursera.org/course/virtualinstruction . University of California, Irvine - Forensic Accounting and Fraud Examination https://www.coursera.org/course/forensicaccounting . West Virginia University and Association of Certified Fraud Examiners - What's Your Big Idea? https://www.coursera.org/course/bigidea . The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - The Magna Carta and its Legacy https://www.coursera.org/course/magnacarta . University of London - Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy https://w

8 signature-track-only courses on GTC: - The Art of Teaching History https://www.coursera.org/course/teachinghist . Rice University - What a Plant Knows (and other things you didn't know about plants) https://www.coursera.org/course/plantknows . - The Fall and Rise of Jerusalem https://www.coursera.org/course/jerusalem . Tel Aviv University - The Power of Macroeconomics: Economic Principles in the Real World https://www.coursera.org/course/ucimacroeconomics . University of California, Irvine - Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects https://www.coursera.org/course/learning . University of California, San Diego - Learning to Teach Online https://www.coursera.org/course/ltto . UNSW Australia (The University of New South Wales) - Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship https://www.coursera.org/course/innovativeideas . University of Maryland, College Park - The Emergence of the Modern Middle East | Coursera https://www.coursera.org/course/modernmiddleeast . Tel Aviv University

"for cooperating with the online learning provider Coursera. (...) We regard this cooperation of the Munich universities with Coursera as a marketing operation. The two universities can present themselves globally together with top international universities. Conversely, Coursera adorns itself with their names. It seems that data protection has not been given much thought. Likewise, we miss a critical discussion of who owns the content produced and who profits from it. By the way, taking Coursera courses is still voluntary for the students. This BigBrotherAward is meant as a warning to colleges and universities not to make participation in MOOCs offered by privacy-ignoring companies a mandatory way to earn study credits. Actually it's bad enough that education increasingly becomes a commodity as publicly financed institutions of higher education distribute their offerings via commercial providers. If an appropriate European MOOC platform does not exist, then it is the the universities' duty to create such a platform. By giving a BigBrotherAward to TUM and LMU Munich, we would like to remind both universities and all other education institutions that the long-term business model of such "education providers" hinges on contracts in which the students are not the customers of the MOOC provider, they are the product being sold."

"...Our vision is to encourage the growth of a more open set of intellectual communities than those spawned by the traditional university system. In particular, we focus on the ideal of introducing inventive methods of interaction to allow these communities to form in new ways. Rather than segregating users based on which university they happen to attend (or indeed, whether they happen to attend a university at all) or even the large subject areas encompassed by university classes, the system allows users to interact with one another in focused ways based on the specific ideas they are addressing at the time: users can gather around the specific details of a recently passed piece of legislation or the implications of a particular article, rather than around larger subject blocks. H2O encourages users to share the content they create through these interactions by making archives of previous materials easily available and browsable and by enabling the sharing of content among different intellectual communities. ..."

Fueling their enthusiasm is the explosion of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, the new species of free classes prestigious universities are offering to students around the world. As educators debate what the classes mean for the future of traditional universities, one thing is clear - they provide a vast laboratory to study learning, using a trail of electronic data to examine what resources or study habits best help students, whether they take courses online or in traditional classrooms.

"Using PBworks in your academic environments. PBworks hosts over 300,000 educational workspaces, and has helped transform teaching and learning for millions of students, parents and teachers. Educators ranging from major universities like DePaul, school districts like Baltimore County Public Schools and individual teachers trust PBworks as their collaborative learning environment. In your Classroom, Library, District or University Encourage student-centered learning. Even young students can build web pages, embed images & video, and post documents. Provide access to information sources, book lists, and links to good articles. Have the resources stored for future use. Host and share information between students, faculty and staff. Encourage staff development and shared resources across schools. Make distance learning more interactive and collaborative, support research teams, and improve inter-departmental coordination."

"What are my ISBN options? You have four ISBN options: you can either use a CreateSpace-Assigned ISBN, a Custom ISBN*, a Custom Universal ISBN*, or you can use your own ISBN. Both custom ISBN options are offered through an agreement with Bowker®. Price Imprint Distributors CreateSpace-Assigned ISBN Free CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform CreateSpace Custom ISBN* $10 You choose CreateSpace Custom Universal ISBN* $99 You choose You choose Provide Your Own ISBN Existing ISBN Required You choose You choose"

"Allan Päll - Secretary General of the European Youth Forum - Belgium Miles Berry - Principal lecturer in Computing Education at the University of Roehampton - UK Jo Swinson - Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills in the UK's coalition Government of 2010-2015 - UK Pedro De Bruyckere - Educational scientist at the Artevelde Hogeschool - Belgium Are we equipping young people with the skills they need to participate, contribute and compete in our technology-oriented society? What specific new skills are needed? Are schools and universities the right places to teach these so-called '21st century skills'? On December 4, OEB 2015 experts debated on the motion "This House believes 21st Century skills aren't being taught - and they should be" More info: http://bit.ly/20zkM8R"

"Peer 2 Peer University (we mostly just say P2PU) is a grassroots open education project that organizes learning outside of institutional walls and gives learners recognition for their achievements. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Leveraging the internet and educational materials openly available online, P2PU enables high-quality low-cost education opportunities. Learning for the people, by the people. About almost anything. Our values Three things guide everything we do: openness, community and peer learning. P2PU is open Being open enables more people to participate and innovate, and makes us accountable. Our community is open so that everyone can participate. Our content is open so that everyone can use it. Our model & technology are open so others can experiment with it and we can all improve it together. Our processes are open so that we remain accountable to our purpose and community. P2PU is a community P2PU is community-centered and our governance model reflects that. P2PU is built driven by volunteers, who are involved in all aspects of the project. As members of this community, we speak and act with civility. We show tolerance and respect for other opinions, people, and perspectives. We strive for quality as a process - driven by community-review, feedback and revision. P2PU is peer learning P2PU is teaching and learning by peers for peers. Everyone has something to contribute and everyone has something to learn. We are all teachers & learners. We take responsibility for our own and each others' learning. "

"The Year of the MOOC (...) MOOCs have been around for a few years as collaborative techie learning events, but this is the year everyone wants in. Elite universities are partnering with Coursera at a furious pace. It now offers courses from 33 of the biggest names in postsecondary education, including Princeton, Brown, Columbia and Duke. In September, Google unleashed a MOOC-building online tool, and Stanford unveiled Class2Go with two courses. "

Interessante applicazione interattiva della tassonomia (rielaborata) di Bloom. Dalla "Iowa State University - Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching". Partire da questa pagina per una promettente esplorazione di argomenti correlati. In inglese.

"Discuss, Discover and Learn Join a community of curious minds from universities across the UK"

"Antonio Fini, Andreas Formiconi, Alessandro Giorni, Nuccia Silvana Pirruccello, Elisa Spadavecchia, Emanuela Zibordi Abstract In Fall 2007 David Wiley, professor at Utah State University held a course about Open Education. That time, however, Dr Wiley's course was followed by a rather unusual group of students. The Fall 2007 edition, in fact, was available to anybody, free of charge, all over the world. The only requisite required was the possession of a blog for the completion of the weekly assignments. The present paper, whose authors attended the course completing it successfully, is an account of the experience they had. It can be considered an innovating experience from many different viewpoints and can be regarded as an example of how the world of the formal education can meet the demands of the informal one, in the broader landscape of professional training and lifelong learning. Keywords OER; Open Education; online community; informal learning Full Text: PDF This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License."

"Form@re diventa un Open Journal Avvertiamo i gentili lettori che con il nuovo anno l'Open Journal Form@re termina le proprie pubblicazioni con le Edizioni Erickson e continuerà a uscire per la FUP - Firenze University Press, l'editore dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze. La rivista si propone di continuare il percorso già intrapreso dodici anni fa con le Edizioni Erickson in un contesto universitario, nell'ottica di una ulteriore integrazione con gli orientamenti internazionali che caratterizzano ormai la cultura degli Open Educational Journal. Si invitano i lettori interessati a rimanere aggiornati sulle prossime uscite e novità editoriali di Form@re attraverso la newsletter a compilare il form che si trova a questo indirizzo: http://tinyurl.com/FormareOpenJournal Il Direttore scientifico e le Edizioni Erickson ringraziano i lettori per aver creduto e sostenuto in questi anni una iniziativa editoriale che è nata con lo scopo di mettere a disposizione delle comunità di insegnanti e formatori un significativo archivio di ricerche, esperienze e riflessioni educative, che spaziano ormai dalle tecnologie alle metodologie, alle didattiche disciplinari, alla formazione professionale. La nuova edizione di Form@re, con i cambiamenti introdotti anche nella struttura scientifica e gestionale, sarà raggiungibile, a partire da marzo 2013, al seguente indirizzo internet: http://www.fupress.com/formare Il Direttore scientifico Antonio Calvani e la Redazione delle Edizioni Erickson" Via https://delicious.com/lapizz964

"March 19, 2013, 1:00 pm By Prof. Hacker [This is a guest post by Lisa Rhody, who works for the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University as the project manager for WebWise 2013....] From early posts about scholarly uses of social media to more recent entries on its usefulness for improving student engagement, there seems to be a general consensus among ProfHacker writers that the use of social media promotes the widening of scholarly networks. Keeping in mind that online social networks extend beyond the obvious Twitter and Facebook-blogs, podcasts, wikis, and photo/video sharing sites are a few other forms of social media-the vexing question to answer has been how to quantify the scope or significance of one's participation in social media to a wider scholarly conversation."

"March 20, 2013, 4:55 am By Steve Kolowich The State University of New York's Board of Trustees on Tuesday endorsed an ambitious vision for how SUNY might use prior-learning assessment, competency-based programs, and massive open online courses to help students finish their degrees in less time, for less money. The plan calls for "new and expanded online programs" that "include options for time-shortened degree completion." In particular, the board proposed a huge expansion the prior-learning assessment programs offered by SUNY's Empire State College. The system will also push its top faculty members to build MOOCs designed so that certain students who do well in the courses might be eligible for SUNY credit. Ultimately, the system wants to add 100,000 enrollments within three years, according to a news release."

"This site helps you navigate in e-Learning sources and MOOCs. We try to systematize information about MOOC education. You can use this service to find MOOCs, online courses, share comments and reviews. Our mission is to help people to build a personal education path using free or cheap online courses as alternative to traditional higher education. We help to find free alternatives to expensive college/university courses."

Forse la IUL si potrebbe iscrivere come fornitrice di corsi / MOOC?

"Summary of a presentation by Phillip D. Long, University of Queensland We want to see the learning design patterns change, we want to see phy6sical participation in the profession, that is, engagement with the content and the practice, in the rich spaces that we have, and let the content engagement, which can be well-designed online, be the place where content is delivered. (Eg. Pictures of classes, eg., composed of 'terraces'). Recently, we tried bringing people together en masse. We took a large space that is a sports facility and turned it into a learning environment, tables of nine, an instructor and two TAs, and engagement simply in terms of 'showing up' is stunning, 85-90 per cent attendance. Our engagement with MOOCs, and we've just started to partner with EdX, is because we are learning how to refactor how learning on campus takes place, to put the effort into learning design into the online context, moving away from these little boxes, and looking at the campus as a series of practice spaces. (SD- Stephen Downes: This is a good model - but one wonders why it would be reserved for tuition-paying students - why not move it out into the community as a whole - you'd get *much* better 'tables of nine')"

SD = Stephen Downes

Questo gruppo Diigo serve a radunare segnalibri di link utili per il c-mooc #ltis 13 della Italian University Line: vedi http://iamarf.org/2013/02/28/un-cmooc-sulle-tecnologie-internet-per-la-scuola-ltis13/ .

eLearning Papers nº 33 [May 2013] "...This issue aims to shed light on the way MOOCs affect education institutions and learners. Which teaching and learning strategies can be used to improve the MOOC learning experience? How do MOOCs fit into today's pedagogical landscape; and could they provide a viable model for developing countries? We must also look closely at their potential impact on education structures. With the expansion of xMOOC platforms connected to different university networks-like Coursera, Udacity, edX, or the newly launched European Futurelearn-a central question is: what is their role in the education system and especially in higher education? This special issue of eLearning Papers brings together in-depth research and examples from the field to generate debate within this emerging research area." Author(s): Yishay Mor, Tapio Koskinen Anche in italiano e altre lingue