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Book on MOOC and how to set up #MOOC yourself - 0 views

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How was it? The UK's first Coursera Moocs assessed | News | Times Higher Education - 0 views

  • attracted 308,000 students,
  • The programmes, which ran over five weeks, had an estimated average completion rate of about 12 per cent, while early figures suggest that each Mooc cost about £30,000 from development to delivery.
  • University of Edinburgh’s
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  • Mooc cost about £30,00
  • From August 2012 until the course went live in January, Knox estimates he was spending about eight hours a week on Mooc-related activity. During the five weeks of the course itself, this figure doubled, he says.
  • but we thought that once it was up and running, it would kind of run itself. That’s the impression we got from Coursera - just wind it up and watch it go. However, we found that we were spending a lot of time monitoring the course while it was going.”
  • he decision proved unpopular with some students, Knox says, as they had been expecting to see professors imparting knowledge as they would in a lecture theatre.
  • estimates that some 2,000 students completed the final assignment.
Roger Harrison

Facebook in university teaching - 1 views

  • Using Facebook to enhance student engagement
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    some good reflection on this case study of using facebook to develop a learning community on a large university course
Roger Harrison

MOOCs may eye the world market, but does the world want them? | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

  • Online higher education is increasingly hailed as a chance for educators in the developed world to expand access and quality across the globe
  • enroll in online courses. The African Virtual University was created based on work the World Bank began in 1995 to provide education in sub-Saharan African. It now supplies coursework
Roger Harrison

MOOC - International Health Systems | Canvas Network - 0 views

  • Participants in this course will examine social, economic, and political determinants of health; the evolution of various systems around the world; key health policies and priorities; models of providing health care and insurance; and systems of remuneration, financing, planning, manpower, education, and training. You will review the major determinants of health status; international development and social change around the world and reflect on how these issues and trends apply to our own health care system and society.
Roger Harrison

Will MOOC Technology Break the Education Cartel? « Educational Technology Debate - 0 views

  • Talk about giving the people what they want. It’s been compared to the introduction of self-serve in grocery stores in the 70’s and 80’s whereby a digitally-accessible education sees people picking and choosing their own learning rather than waiting for a ‘grocer’ to assemble it for them.
  • developing countries where university-level education is not universally accessible, it means something even more – being able to study at all, and world-class courses at that. AfterSchoolAfrica.com has a good summary here if you need a quick overview of the history of MOOCs so far by the way.
  • Once flexible and even user-generated learning content embedded in MOOC’s
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  • Can we actually trust people to choose their own education like they choose toothbrushes
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    great historical comparisions
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