The Chronicle has created an Who's who and how are they connected. Although it only US-focused, it gives good insight how the MOOC ecosystem is organised. more »
Archives for: "April 2013"
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Currently we talk mostly about xMOOCs. Donald Clark has created a new taxonomy of 8 different types of MOOCs. This taxonomy is based on pedagogy instead of from a institutional perspective:
transferMOOCs Transfer MOOCs… more »
Last week there was an interesting news item about Amherst College. The faculty decided not to join the EdX Consortium.
The first interesting thing is that the president didn't want to make the final decision:
Amherst President Carolyn (Biddy) Martin… more »
According to Adam Heidebrink MOOC platforms can be more dynamic. In his article he made a comparison of the platforms Coursera, Canvas and EdX. He provides 4 preliminary suggestions:
Integrated real-time discussion
Crowdsourced annotations
Promote… more »
Afgelopen donderdag was ik bij de opening van het leercentrum Agora van de KU Leuven op uitnodiging van Fred Truyen. Het leercentrum is gerealiseerd in de binnenstad van Leuven in de oude Pharmacie instituut uit 1932. Er is plaats voor zo'n 550 studente… more »
Li Yuan and Stephen Powell from JISC CETIS have written an interesting white paper on MOOCs and Open Education. The goal of the authors is to help decision makers in higher education institutions gain a better understanding of MOOCs and trends towards g… more »
An interesting new feature that is coming to the EdX platform is the automated essay grading. This features enables the possibility that essays of students are automatically graded. This means that students can get instand feedback on their work.
The E… more »
Yesterday EdX and Stanford announced that they will team up their efforts in developing the EdX platform. This means that Stanford will merge their open-source mooc platform Class2Go into the EdX platform. The Chronicle wrote about this:
The move is a… more »
Peter Rheinhardt wrote an interesting blog article about the retention in online education and then specifically in MOOCs:
I don?t want to tear down these products or the people who?ve built them, I?m rooting for them all the way. They just need som… more »