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OpenClassrooms, ex-Le Site du Zéro - Les cours les plus ouverts du Web
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Long-standing MOOC platform using the French language.See it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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Donald Clark Plan B: MOOCs: Futurelearn 4 pluses & 4 minuses
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Thoughts on FutureLearnSee it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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HarvardX Research Findings - Student Behavior - Degree of Freedom
With new MITx and HarvardX Research findings, we now have numbers to build portraits of the complex behavior of students involved with massive open learningRebecca Ferguson's insight:Overview of...
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The Landing: Cargo cult courses
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Is that MOOC a course - or does it just look like a course?See it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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10 Things I’ve Learned (So Far) from Making a Meta-MOOC
On January 27th, Cathy N. Davidson launches "The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education," a MOOC connected to dozens of other courses and events distributed across the web.Rebecca Ferguson's...
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Five myths about Moocs
Diana Laurillard explains why a model based on unsupervised learning is not the answerRebecca Ferguson's insight:Diana Laurillard in the THES on MOOCs.See it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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HarvardX’s and MITx’s MOOC Data Visualized and Mapped
Newly released data from HarvardX and MITx offer insight into who is taking MOOCs, and why.Rebecca Ferguson's insight:xMOOC demographic infographicSee it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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Proceedings-Moocs-Summit-2014.pdf
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Proceedings of the MOOCs Summit in LausanneSee it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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Half an Hour: The Personal Network Effect
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Thinking about scale in massive pedagogy. 'For any given network, for any given individual in the network, here will be a certain number of connections that produces maximum...
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MOOCs University profiles : Coursera, edX, Coursesites, Futurelearn, iversity,
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Tableau workbook comparing MOOC providers on various dimensionsSee it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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HarvardX and MITx: The First Year of Open Online Courses, Fall 2012-Summer 2013
HarvardX and MITx are collaborative institutional efforts between Harvard University and MIT to enhance campus-based education, advance educational research, anRebecca Ferguson's insight:841,687...
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MOOC data from Edinburgh moocs.is.ed.ac.uk
inburghRebecca Ferguson's insight:University of Edinburgh being commendably open about their MOOC data across the Coursera and FutureLearn platformsSee it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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Emma Project
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:The description of this project says: 'It aims to showcase excellence in innovative teaching methodologies and learning approaches through the large-scale piloting of MOOCs...
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Findings | Caledonian Academy
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Implications of a Coursera MOOC study for learning design in MOOCsSee it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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MIT and Harvard release de-identified learning data from open online courses
Dataset contains the original learning data from the 16 HarvardX and MITx courses offered in 2012-13.Rebecca Ferguson's insight:"A research team from Harvard University and MIT has released its third...
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Creative destruction
HIGHER education is one of the great successes of the welfare state. What was once the privilege of a few has become a middle-class entitlement, thanks mainly to...Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Drivers...
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Future Learn
Blog post on one learner's experience of the FutureLearn Creative Writing MOOCA little blog on my creative writing Future Learn course which I completed last week. It was a very enjoyable course indeed...
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Peer assessment for massive open online courses (MOOCs)
Peer assessment for massive open online courses (MOOCs)Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Peer assessment in MOOCs - different approachesSee it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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Top Free Classes: List of August MOOCs
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:We're beginning to see the MOOC directories come into play.See it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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Top Free Classes
We collect the best free online courses and help you choose the right ones by providing ratings...Rebecca Ferguson's insight:This is beginning to look a little like the TripAdvisor for MOOCs that we...
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UNE shuts down its loss-making MOOCs
The University of New England (UNE) has shut down its pioneering experiment with massive open online courses (MOOCs) because it could not make it pay.Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Their business model...
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Can You Really Teach a MOOC in a Refugee Camp?
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:A MOOC in a refugee camp? It worked - just - for two people, but doesn't look likely to scale.See it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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Moocs, and the man leading the UK's charge
Simon Nelson is head of FutureLearn, the OU's venture into Moocs – massive open online courses that some have claimed will revolutionise higher educationRebecca Ferguson's insight:Interview in the...
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Moocs ‘will not transform education’, says FutureLearn chief
Simon Nelson tells Times Higher Education podcast original claims were ‘overhyped and unrealistic’Rebecca Ferguson's insight:FutureLearn stats: Since the first course went live 12 months ago,...
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MOOCs in 2014
In November 2011 I was taking one of the first MOOCs from Stanford. At that time, many new MOOCs were being announced and I started Class Central as a way to keep track of them and figure out what I...
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Current Issues in Emerging eLearning | Vol 2 | Iss 1
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Work on MOOC pedagogy:The brief & expansive history (and future) of the MOOC: Why two divergent models share the same nameThe dark side of the MOOC - A critical inquiry...
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HEA research provides insights into learning on MOOCs
A study published by the HEA that looks at the learning taking place in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) shows that participants can and do experience engaged, high quality learning.Rebecca...
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Making MOOCs accessible: edX reaches deal with Justice Dept
The MOOC platform’s accommodations for learners with disabilities were the subject of a lawsuit against Harvard and MIT.Rebecca Ferguson's insight:The Department of Justice alleged the edX site was...
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Coursera raises $49.5M to help it expand to Latin America, China, and India
Coursera wants to accelerate its global expansion, so it went out and raised some more cash. The online education service has raised $49.5 million in the first closing of its Series C round. The...
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MOOCS in 2015 - Class Central's MOOC Report
How has the MOOC space grown this year? Get the facts, figures, and pie charts.Rebecca Ferguson's insight:The growing MOOC spaceSee it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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