ORIENT: Find out where stuff is. Then remember where it is.
DECLARE: Set up a place to record and share your thoughts.
NETWORK: Follow others; interact with them.
CLUSTER: Once you’ve gotten your feet wet, get together with people who share your interests.
FOCUS: “Halfway through,” Cormier says, “your mind starts to wander.” So have a way to apply what you’ve been learning.
MIT announces two MOOC sequences as edX strategy begins to take shape | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views
MIT MOOC | Dave's Whiteboard - 0 views
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video by Dave Cormier
HarvardX and edX online learning update | Harvard Magazine - 0 views
How to Use Twitter for Personal Data Mining | MIT Technology Review - 0 views
Who Performs the Best in Online Classes? | minimaxir | Max Woolf's Blog - 2 views
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At the end of May, Harvard and MIT jointly released a dataset containing statistics about their online courses in the Academic Year of 2013. This Person-Course De-Identified dataset contains 641,138 events, chronicling 476,532 students who have taken up to 13 unique courses from a variety of topics: However, this assortment of courses is not a substitution for a typical college education, as the vast majority of students only take one class.
Why We Watch: Lessons from MIT's Study of MOOCs and Engagement | EdSurge News - 1 views
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The biggest takeaway: Keep it short. Student engagement, measured by how long a student watched each video and whether they attempted to answer post-video questions, dropped sharply at the six minute mark.
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Videos with a personal feel (filmed in an informal setting) and videos that were designed with the MOOC format in mind fared better than polished videos that simply chopped up a pre-recorded lecture.
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