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"Suggestions for improvement To be fair, the cons that I have listed above are not unique to the EDCMOOC, nor to online learning in general. I remember similar problems from my uni days on campus. Nonetheless, they inform my following suggestions for improvement… Week 1 should be set aside as a social week to allow the happy greeters to get their social proclivities out of their systems. It may be tempting to set aside a pre-week for this purpose, but the truth is it will bleed into Week 1 anyway. The instructors need to be much more active in the discussions. I recommend they seed each week with a pinned discussion thread, which marks the official line of enquiry and discourages multiple (and confusing) threads emerging about the same concepts. More importantly, the instructors should actively prompt, prod, guide and challenge the participants to engage in critical analysis. Explication of the implications for e-learning must be the outcome. A moderator should delete the spam and ban the spammers. A support page and discussion thread should be dedicated to helping the lost souls, so that they don't pollute the rest of the course with their problems. All in all, I am glad to report my first mooc experience was a positive one. I won't rush out to do another one in a hurry, but that's simply because I know how demanding they are. But one thing's for sure, I will do another one at some stage. I look forward to it!"

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This is a great tool to help faculty who are still living in the paper realm to convert over to the digital world.

"Puzzlemaker is a puzzle generation tool for teachers, students and parents. Create and print customized word search, criss-cross, math puzzles, and more-using your own word lists."

complete solution for creating and distributing surveys and collecting, analyzing and reporting results. Common survey applications include customer and employee satisfaction surveys, course evaluations and opinion polls. Other common applications include lead-generation forms, technical-support inquiry forms, web-feedback questionnaires and product-order forms. SurveySolutions also includes the ability to produce instant "live" survey results, making it ideal for publishing entertaining and informative polls on your web site.

"MathPad is a general purpose graphing scientific calculator for the Macintosh. It uses text worksheets rather than simulating buttons on a hand held calculator. This live scratchpad interface allows you to see and edit your entire calculation. Formulas can be entered directly and different values can be plugged in for easy "what if" calculating."

Maple provides the single mathematical analysis environment for solving technical problems in the workplace, the research lab and in the classroom, including: The world's most respected symbolic solver; Stunning graphics generation and visualization tools; High-speed numeric solvers from The Numerical Algorithms Group; High-level, interactive programming language; Connectivity with the Web through TCP/IP sockets, MathML 2.0, and XML; Connectivity with other software tools.