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Version 3) My submission for the the 2013 Saylor Foundation Digital Education Conference. www.saylor.org/posters-2/ My poster/meme is targeted at exposing the mixed bag of what people mean by the term Massive Open Online Course, or MOOC. As with many trending topics, many people and institutions have jumped on the MOOC bandwagon, but have little shared understanding of what they actually are, or what they are useful for. By adding prompts around the potential meaning of each letter, I wanted to represent visually the fuzziness of the concept, and the need to develop a better taxonomy of what it means to learn online. Although I have represented this concept visually myself, I would not have come up with the idea without attending Educon in Philadelphia in January 2013. I borrowed the tagline from Jon Becker, Assistant Professor at VCU. CC By Mathieu Plourde, 2013 #digedcon #moocposter

BCcampus. (n.d.) Open textbook project: BCcampus is contributing to the development of an open future for teaching practices and educational resources. Retrieved from https://bccampus.ca/open-textbook-project/ [Explore this site for information on the work that faculty and librarians have done to develop open textbooks for post-secondary institutions in British Columbia, Canada. The group's open textbook project has 151 textbooks available as of June 1, 2016: https://open.bccampus.ca/2016/06/01/the-b-c-open-textbook-project-celebrates-another-milestone-151-open-textbooks/] Grant, S. (2015, August 26). Are savvy students sabotaging big textbook? College kids are studying smarter-and cheaper-threatening the textbook industry's high prices. Bloomberg. Retrieved from http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-26/are-savvy-students-sabotaging-big-textbook- [High prices are causing students to find ways around purchasing textbooks.] McGuire, H. (2016, April 16). Do textbooks still matter? E-180 Mag. Retrieved from https://mag.e-180.com/2016/04/do-textbooks-still-matter/ [McGuire discusses the concept of "textbook" as a guide to obtaining subject mastery.] Merlot II. https://www.merlot.org/merlot/index.htm A "curated collection of free and open online teaching, learning, and faculty development services contributed and used by an international education community." MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm "MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity." Example: Asia in the Modern World: Images and Representations: [http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/global-studies-and-languages/21g-027-asia-in-the-modern-world-images-representations-spring-2012/] Course taught in 2012 by Dr. John Dower. Syllabus, video lectures, reading list, link to MIT Visualizing Cultures [http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html] website. (Some i

MIT OpenCourseWare http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm "MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity." Example: Asia in the Modern World: Images and Representations: [http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/global-studies-and-languages/21g-027-asia-in-the-modern-world-images-representations-spring-2012/] Course taught in 2012 by Dr. John Dower. Syllabus, video lectures, reading list, link to MIT Visualizing Cultures [http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html] website. (Some items on the reading list are not open source.) North Carolina State University. Alt-Textbook Project https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/alttextbook [The Library handles funding to assist faculty in development of open textbooks. See https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/stories/alt-textbooks-saving-students-money-and-supporting-innovative-teaching for information on savings for students realized by this program. See http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/09/oa/ncsu-libraries-spur-innovation-through-alt-textbook-grants/#_ for a write up in Library Journal about this project and http://www.technicianonline.com/features/article_317206f2-c8a4-11e5-a906-5b93b1a3e3b4.html for another article in the student newspaper.] North Carolina State University: Open Source Resources https://www.ncsu.edu/it/open_source/ [Henry Schaffer's list of open source software and other resources.] Open Textbook Library. https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ ["Open textbooks are textbooks that have been funded, published, and licensed to be freely used, adapted, and distributed. These books have been reviewed by faculty from a variety of colleges and universities to assess their quality. These books can be downloaded for no cost, or printed at low cost..." This collection is housed at University of Minnesota.] OpenStax CNX http://cnx.rice.edu A collection of open textbooks and "knowlege chunks" that can be used to create co