The OpenCourseWare Consortium launched a survey on their website in March 2011 to collect user feedback. Data was gathered from 1773 respondents from nearly 90 countries. The results are now available on their website.
In addition, the have collected a… more »
Archives for: "June 2013"
There is still no clear view on the business models of MOOCs, although Coursera, Udacity and EdX are announcing almost every week new ventures:
IMF and edX Join Forces to Pilot Online Economics and Financial Courses (pay for courses)
edX and Massach… more »
From Web-enhanced face-to-face courses to MOOCs, flipped, blended, and fully online courses, videos are an integral component of today’s educational landscape — from kindergarten all the way through higher education.
But there’s a big difference betwee… more »
Errol Craig Sull has made a list of the 10 mayor obstacles and their solutions for teaching online. Losing all power and other related interruptions New to teaching/new to teaching online. A severe medical problem strains teaching efforts.… more »
In January I already wrote about the predictability of hype cycles. Now Arthur Josephson has written an interesting item on this:
It seems clear that we are on the way to the “Peak of Inflated Expectations”, but how far up the mountain does David Ste… more »
The Flipped Classroom Field Guide is a compilation of best-practices and community resources centered around the flipped classroom and blended learning initiatives of the Coursera-partner community.
The guide is interesting to read for teacher that wan… more »
From the launch of edX the founding universities have emphasized that research into learning will be one of the initiative’s core missions. As numerous articles in both the academic and popular press have pointed out, the ability of MOOCs to generate a… more »
After the OCWC Global Conference I enjoyed my holliday and I'm still catching up on all the MOOC activities in the past month. So here is a list of interesting items:
Georgia Tech to Offer a MOOC-Like Online Master's Degree, at Low Cost Georgia Tech… more »