Chronicle report on talk by Jim Groom on using blogs to teach online. Chronicle comes over as apologists for Blackboard (you wouldn't want to read their stuff regularly!) and doesn't really explore the opportunities that Groom would have been highlighting.
Coursera now passing student details to employers (with the students permission - opt in). Allows people to seek work through the courses they have done.
The Chronicle with more surface stuff on MOOCs. There's very little to learn about Mooc design except don't make instructions ambiguous (with which I totally agree!)
a thought-provoking article that puts forward the thesis that MOOCs and Coursera are the wrong direction for higher education - that personalisation and customisation of learning are the direction we should be working to develop.
Publishers realise oer is a threat and try lawsuits to prevent. Seems like there might be some trolling in the comments from 'Disgusted of Academia' or possibly publishers employee!
Ng & Koller talk about Coursera at a meetup in California. This news article describes that and quotes Ng saying that the Coursera experience could be as big as Google
"...students may be asked a question like 'Are you a runner?' when they log into the learning-management system. If a student checks 'yes,' he or she will thereafter see ads for a certain brand of running shoes on the home page."<--quick Troy write a plugin for Moodle!
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