MOOCs at WKU: A Taskforce Bookmark List

Last year in MOOCs as only Audrey Watters can sum up. Classic summary synthesis. Readable and accurate.

Example of open ed/MOOC-style self-learning

I am thinking about Saudi women as students here. No need for them to travel with an adult male chaperone to another country?

Jim Groom permalink October 16, 2013 Richard, Thanks for coming to OpenVA (both days!) and I'm sorry we didn't get to talk. For me, I don;t really find a create open education resources per se. I tend to narrate my work, share my approach, but with things like the class I teach it seems to be more an open flow of discussion that erally can;t be reproduced in a decontextualized resource outside the human connections that make it meaningful. I'd like to see us push more towards open communities of folks that share our process and ideas (at least those we feel comfritable with sharing) so that we can start pooling human resources in new ways. The individidual scales a lot better online than the resources, and at the end of the day, like you said, not all that many people are using the human resources anyway. But millions of people are socializing, collaborating, and creating-that's the real exciting part to me. For me the open can be understood in a lot of ways, and I am not sure necessarily opening up all your resources has to be the only route. We can share the vetted work we do more openly in a space it can be found around the state. We can openly share ideas for our work, research etc. Maybe there is a chance it can be missused or stolen, but I have to believe there is also the chance it can ignite amazing collaborations. I think the questions around open and what we want from it are exactly what we should continue trying to figure out. There can't be any one way that would work for Virginia's universities and colleges, and that's actually why it appeals to me.

University and business partnerships

Hellping learners find learning--a website for learning brokers.

Internationalizing MOOCs--WKU?

MOOCs lead me more and more toward informal and adult learning. We just have to find a way to assess it fairly and promote it for those who need it. And do it for free or as next to free as we can make it.

Extending MOOCs into underserved populations--like prisons. This is an astonishing development for informal and adult learning. Autodidacts don't need to be praised and acknowledged, they just need to be supported. The brain chemistry of learning will take care of the rest.

WKU Benchmark Institutions--need to see what they are doing regarding MOOCs

""If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less"" George Siemens defines MOOCs extensively and puts all of his MOOCs squarely in the connectivist/constructivist camp.

Colorado tries a MOOC--comix and graphic novels.

European MOOC distribution

A unique article written in Storify format about how to partake of a cMOOC

Arabic MOOC portal