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New data from Wharton suggests MOOCs are helping business schools reach new audiences.

City University London is a leading global University committed to academic excellence, focused on business and the professions and located in the heart of London.

Yan, thank you for sharing. Indeed I have to agree with that. I used youtube channel when preparing my interview (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=youtube+city+university+london&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&gws_rd=cr&ei=4rfnUvDpJM2ShQedoICoDQ)

Whether "Death by Power Point" or "Not So Busy it Made me Dizzy" presentations have to serve their purpose. There is no point of doing them just for the sake of themselves. My project presentations will try to aim at goals set in the post. Seth Godin in my view is worth following.

Different elements of good communication nowadays and before. Do they apply the same way to onlinc communications as well?

Highlights * We explore factors affecting students' engagement with Moodle and Facebook. * Students were not interested in using Moodle, yet active on Facebook. * We use Activity Theory as a lens for data interpretation. * Factors are categorized as technological, individual, and community levels.

Hello there, Thanks for sharing this Ivan - good one I hope I can effectively operationalize some ideas. Thanks Z

Interesting! As are a number of the papers suggested afterwards which I will bookmark too! As an aside you may be interested in the paper Cass Business School students present to the Moodle Research Conference last year: http://research.moodle.net/mod/data/view.php?d=7&rid=124 One point of interest I'm keen to follow is the possible rise in more student-led studies (at City?) - in this case, both surveying students and by students. I'm also interested in how we could look more at involving learners in the design process.

A discussion around potential risks to exposure to social media. Our interaction online even in controlled Virtual Learning Environments should take into account this as well.

Will we ever get rid of book. Maybe but ebooks are going to stay with us. More green option if nothing else. For digital natives and maybe not for as analogue ancestors :) When building a Project it is worth having information where to get books that you might need in addition to material offered within the course - online of course.