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A long post on why "Coursera is silly"

All classes online but students must all participate at the same time and live on campus.

"Today, Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller is in Sydney, Australia, where she has just signed agreements with the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and the University of Western Australia (UWA). These top institutions join the University of Melbourne as our second and third Australian university partners, bringing our total number of university and educational institution partners to 86. "

Interesting post on globality of cCoursera.

Useful reference on using Fusion Tables

Credentials with clear pathways to jobs.

Stephen Downes on a new initiative from the NRC to address skill shortage and the inability of traditional education to fill the gap.

"This post will detail how to create an aggregator site wherein people can simply add their feeds to a site and have their content automatically re-published."

"So here's something neat that I figured out how to do on Jim's DS106 class (soon to be available on my own course site). As you may know, both sites are syndicating in feeds from students' blogs using the amazing FeedWordPress plugin. We use this plugin all over UMW Blogs to allow faculty to manage course "mother" blogs into which students' blogs are fed."

Do/might PLPs allow learners to identify their route through learning (especially on open courses)?

George Siemens on a professor who killed his Coursera course half way through apparently as an experiment!

Huge numbers of enrolments during covid19 crisis. And big numbers in online degrees at high volume, low cost.