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The MOOC Business Plan- With millions of students taking high-quality MOOCs for free, schools and course providers are searching for a viable business model. Editorial: MOOC Shake- MOOCs will change higher education radically, but not in the way we expect right now. Assessment Tools for MOOCs- As MOOCs are made available for credit, scalable assessment options are essential. Building a Sense of Community in MOOCs- Massive class sizes can breed feelings of isolation, but they also enable more student interaction. Blended MOOCs: The Best of Both Worlds?- Combining in-class instruction with high-quality MOOCs may resolve some of the hurdles facing xMOOCs, but questions about cost and the impact on faculty remain unanswered. Watch video: Catheryn Cheal, AVP and senior academic technology officer at San Jose State, discusses how the school adapted a course for use in a blended MOOC. The Rise of MOOCs… What does it mean for higher education? Watch video: Cathy Sandeen, VP of education attainment and innovation at ACE, talks about the potential of MOOCs to increase the number of Americans gaining a post-secondary degree. cMOOCs: Putting Collaboration First- Alternative MOOC models are fostering creativity and collaboration with peers. How to Convert a Class Into a MOOC- The sheer size and diversity of the student body in a MOOC require a new approach to teaching. C-Level- The role of MOOCs in learner-initiated learning. MOOC News & Analysis- Georgia Tech's MOOC Degree

Featured by Sarah Cunnane, writer for the Times Higher Education, as a unique example of a university trusting its own students, staff and faculty - wow, a sad commentary on our higher education community

wonderful list of hashtags to use when crafting a tweet

9 week free, open and online course designed for higher ed community but may also be of interest to secondary educators or home schoolers. Expecting people to dedicate 3-10 hrs a week starting January 10 and running through March 13, 2013.

Professor Jim Taylor, from the University of Southern Queensland, points out that the OER university will create a parallel learning universe to augment and add value to traditional models of delivery through open collaboration networks. "This is not theoretical speculation, it is entirely viable." said Jim Taylor. In this keynote address, Jim: Refers to the "gales of creative destruction" associated with technological change where old industry can be swept away and replaced by new ones. However, the OER university concept provides opportunities for "creative construction" for universities in a digital age. Demonstrates that conventional supply of education using traditional delivery methods will not the meet the demands for access to higher education. Consider, for example: the need for 18 million new teachers the doubling of post-secondary students in the next decade the need to build roughly one new university per week in India alone to meet the future demand for learning. Points out that we already have a critical mass of open access materials, but we don't have open curriculum, open student support, open assessment and open accreditation. Indicates that the OER university concept will provide a stairway to credible credentials based soley on OER.

vs. Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Ed

While higher ed is a "platform" and not a business, DeMillo posits that we can see the marketplace finding a bypass around universities that have not truly focused on differentiation or embraced openness, states 3 "economic realities" that shows the middle tier of universities (vast majority) waste money and has completely misjudged its value - Rich A. DeMillo is a Distinguished Professor of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology, the seventh ranked public university in the U.S. and one of the premier institutions internationally. He currently serves as the Director of the Center for 21st Century Universities (C21U). This presentation was given as part of CFHE12 on Monday, October 15, 2012

interview with Stephen Downes and George Siemens

Shows how to avoid bots harvesting email addresses in an open courseware project by encrypting them with CryptX

Article by Marc Parry on Unlocking the Gates (Princeton University Press), a new book by Taylor Walsh, is a research analyst with Ithaka S+R, the research division of the nonprofit Ithaka consulting group, which supported the project together with the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.

Randy Bass, Assistant Provost and English prof, Center for New Designs in Learning and Scholarship (CNDLS), Georgetown University worked with Malcoml Brown (Director of ELI) on Evidence of Impact project - "what are the conditions for the most meaningful learning inside and outside the formal curriculum?" and "How do emerging digital tools make it possible to see and capture evidence of meaningful learning in new ways?" Post-Course Era = end of self-contained course at center of curric

Tom Caswell's presentation on Washington State Technical and Commity Colleges' Open Education initiative from the #elifocus11 session, Day 1.

"MindTap - array of digital products and services LMS agnostic with "MindApps" to go across learning platforms - portability and customization by individual students as well as faculty

merging Universal Subtitles with YouTube video

A Report by the Digital Connections Council of the Committee for Economic Development, Washington DC - 2009 - includes definition of OER, issues re copyright, trends