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The Pedagogy of MOOCs by Paul Stacey
Paul Stacey is a senior project manager with Creative Commons. His project management skills were honed at Hughes Aircraft working on education programs for large scale, international air...
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MOOCs: The Final Frontier
SmarterWorkingWM - Smarter Working West MidlandsRebecca Ferguson's insight:Useful report from Sara de Freitas, including a review of much of the literature - although the report skips lightly over...
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MOOCs debated in House of Lords - complete text via Hansard
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Part time education, FutureLearn, MOOCs and The Open University debated in the House of Lords on 24 July (see column GC514)See it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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Udacity Blog: What Does Udacity Do with Data?
Udacity data science intern on data-driven pedagogy and the challenge of categorizing student activity in an asynchronous course experience.Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Linking MOOCs and learning...
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Journal of Online Learning and Teaching – special issue on MOOCs
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Good to see more research published in this area.See it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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'Education is broken, somebody should do something': Followers of the Apocalpyse
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Detailed and thoughtful blog post on the history, possibilities and future of MOOCs.See it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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Africa: The Underlying Inequality of MOOCs
allAfrica: African news and information for a global audienceRebecca Ferguson's insight:Dealing with the digital divide in terms of access and skills.See it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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Creativity MOOC Draws 120,000 Students
More than 120,000 people from around the world have signed up for an upcoming massive online open course (MOOC) designed to help students of all disciplines tap into their innate creative...
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40,000 students worldwide are studying Lord of the Rings Online
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Including a brief reflection on how much work it takes to set up and run a course like this.See it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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Maturing of the MOOC
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:New report from the UK's Department of Business Industry and Skills, including a detailed overview of current literature on the subject.See it on Scoop.it, via Massive open...
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FutureLearn launches
The UK's biggest online university project is being launched, with a partnership of more than 20 universities offering free courses.Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Yay!See it on Scoop.it, via Massive open...
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How Do Learners Experience Open Online Learning?
Hybrid Pedagogy is an academic and networked journal of learning, teaching, and technology that combines the strands of critical pedagogy and digital pedagogy to arrive at the best social and civil...
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MOOC Research Initiative: Grants Awarded
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Grants awarded for MOOC research – investigating MOOCs in all sorts of different ways.See it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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MOOCs in 2013: Breaking Down the Numbers (EdSurge News)
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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A British MOOC Start Up With A 44 Year Old Parent
Much time and attention has been given to the MOOCs started in the US, but as I have mentioned in my interview with Mike Feerick of ALISON, the phenomenon actually first emerged in Europe.Rebecca...
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A review of a Harvard/MIT research paper on edX MOOCs
Rebecca Ferguson's insight:Tony Bates points out that much of what the MOOC research is showing us is identical to what we have known for the last 30 yearsSee it on Scoop.it, via Massive open and online
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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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