E-learn Weblog of Willem van Valkenburg

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 announced a partnership with Udacity and AT&T to offer a scalable computer science master’s program using MOOC technologies.
  
  
• A Bangladeshi Teen Reviews His First Udacity MOOC
  "the course was a great experience: awesome lessons, awesome teachers, awesome learning and, most of all, really enjoyable."
  
  
• You can stop worrying about MOOCs now
  Commercial MOOC providers have started making noises about becoming elearning courseware providers for standard education providers.
  
  
• Refactoring Coursera
  Coursera’s business model, after a year and change of talking about massive cohorts, is now to sell a combination of technology platform and content. They are, in fact, an educational publisher.
  
  
• The Adult Education Market is Imploding
  Fascinating report out on recent enrollment trends from creepily-named National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
  
  
• What do FutureLearn’s Terms and Conditions say about open content?
  FutureLearn content will not be open educational resources in any real sense.
  
  
• Harvard Faculty Request Faculty Oversight of HarvardX (Their Usage of edX)
  58 faculty members from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard wrote an open letter to the dean requesting faculty oversight of HarvardX.
  
  
• Review MOOC Gamification (in Dutch)
  videoreview van de MOOC van Penn University of Pennsylvania in de omgeving Coursera.
  
  
• Disaggregating the Aggregators: MOOCs as Course Supplements
  MOOCs will inevitably pass through a period in which their incorporation is resisted, whether because they are being imposed on universities by legislators or because every new kind of course supplement, from textbooks to computers to online materials, always faces an initially slow uptake.