Salman Khan, the MIT alumnus and founder of Khan Academy, has shared his experience in creating Khan-style videos (KSV) with EdX Consortium through ?appropriately enough? a Khan-style video.
the Khan Academy has created a library of more than 4,000 s… more »
Archives for: "March 2013"
Yesterday the Guardian featured an article from Anka Mulder about the OCW4STEM project we submitted in January:
Technology is fundamentally reshaping how we work, socialise and communicate, but too few European students are opting to study the subjec… more »
The Chronicle has published the result of an survey among professor who have taught a mooc. They invited 184 professors and 104 reacted to the invitation. Although the findings are not scientific. They say "the most enthusiastic of the MOOC professors w… more »
Last week Audrey Watters blogged about the question "What has the impact been of MOOCs on MIT OCW usage?". The answer from Steve Carson:
The site has seen ?record levels of traffic? since the MOOC craze began: 22.3 million visitors in 2012, up 25%… more »
This week Blackboard announced the CourseSites MOOC Catalog:
Empowering Learning Through Community
Blackboard is pleased to support open education opportunities and massive open online courses (MOOCs) through CourseSites by Blackboard, a free, hoste… more »
Moving closer toward its vision of being an open-sourced learning platform, edX on Thursday released its XBlock SDK, the underlying architecture supporting edX course content.
From the start EdX has told that its strategy is focused on open. Last mon… more »
Gisteren was het evenement dat ik samen met Hester Jelgerhuis (SURF) en Robert Schuwer (OU NL) heb georganiseerd in het kader van de Open Education Week.
Het hele evenement is ook uitstekend vastgelegd op video. Op het youtube-kanaal van SURF zijn deze… more »
Yesterday the OER Trend Report 2013 of the Dutch special interest group for Open Educational Resources has been published: The Trend Report: Open Educational Resources 2013 describes trends in open educational resources (OER) and open education in the… more »
Last monday MIT and Harvard organised an seminar on MOOCs. The official title was "Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education". Anka attended the conference on behave of the TU Delft. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman was one of the… more »
Last week Phill Hill wrote a blog post about four types of students in MOOCs. He identified four types:
Lurkers – This is the majority of students within xMOOCs, where people enroll but just observe or sample a few items at the most. Many of these st… more »