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Stephen Downes slides on the OERs in Moocs and the design principles of a cMooc.

Deakin trying out a MOOC with some interesting assessment ideas - mainly assessed via peer review and awarding of badges, formal credit on payment of $495 fee involves an interview with the student as well as learning artefacts. 

AMP tool - assessing mooc pedagogies - based on a 1998 educational software pedagogy tool by Tom Reeves

A new MOOC from Scott Lo in Japan. Details to come but from the title - Sock Puppetry - it seems we could be looking at the illusion that art creates with a bit of digital literacy on the side. Then again, it could just be an elaborate ruse!

Interesting post flagging the info overload things that we have all come across. The second point in the 5 point list is part of the concept that Downes & Siemens have used in the Connectivism MOOC i.e. don't even attempt to read everything - that's not what it's about. Instead choose & filter your information, create networks and trust platforms for 3rd party filtering.

Yet another MOOC, and a nice example of a google site.

Coursera partners with country for mooc delivery.

David Kernohan setting the great Mooc swindle to music.

An attempt to integrate xMooc and cMooc ideas in an upcoming Mooc. The description eventually sounds horrendously complicated - but then so can describing making a cup of tea so let's see what it turns out like.

Interesting - people learn in MOOCS and at least as well as face to face classes. The paper is published in IRRODL so will be worth looking at in detail.

Coursera now passing student details to employers (with the students permission - opt in). Allows people to seek work through the courses they have done.

Guardian article on Moocs

Criticism of the scramble by universities into moocworld and the rhetoric about them being the saviour of HE. Find some of the argument linking a bit weak.

Interesting points on video production values.

Report by think tank on the future of HE in UK. Recommends credit from Moocs, all academics to have training in teaching & assessment, and a teacher track for academics.

Copyright restrictions in Australia limit use of materials outside the traditional classroom.

"The University of Queensland has committed to the development of a major online open learning environment.  UQ Vice-Chancellor Professor Deborah Terry said heads of school, deans and other senior academic leaders had embraced a University vision to move toward the development of a major online open learning environment.  "The initiative is an integral component of the new UQ blueprint for technology-enhanced learning, recently released to staff," Professor Terry said. "