Educause has published an interesting article about copyright challenges in a MOOC environment:
The intersection of copyright and the scale and delivery of MOOCs highlights the enduring tensions between academic freedom, institutional autonomy, and c… more »
Archives for: "July 2013"
Here a selection of interesting blog and news articles about MOOCs.
The attack of the MOOCs An army of new online courses is scaring the wits out of traditional universities. But can they find a viable business model?
How widely used are MOOC foru… more »
I think you can say that MOOC get a lot of attention. We have noticed it here in the Netherlands, but you also see this in the US. It is not often that The Colbert Report is talking about education. Yesterday Anant Agerwal, the President of EdX was inte… more »
Michael Fullan and Katelyn Donnelly have written an interesting report. It is an actionable guide to learning technology that will allow founders, funders, and teachers to make better decisions. It identifies persistent gaps in innovation activity and p… more »
Terry Anderson described a research study about time factors in online learning. The study he describes is done with 80 full time online teachers, teaching 4 online courses during the same semester:
Teaching in any context varies a great deal based o… more »
This fall SURF Academy is organising a masterclass Open Educational Resources (OER). During the three-day masterclass you will get to know everything about Open Education, OER, MOOCs and more. The masterclass is for teachers and staff of higher educati… more »
Mike Caulfield wrote a long, but very interesting blog about the distributed flip:
The distributed flip is a way of approaching flipped classroom design. It’s worth noting that I’m using a fairly broad definition of flipped classroom here. This is no… more »
René Kizilcec and Emily Schneider from the LyticsLab of Stanford are doing an interesting research on the effect of the teacher in view with video.
The presence of a small picture-in-picture (PIP) of the instructor in online learning videos has become… more »
Tharindu Rekha Liyanagunawardena (University of Reading, UK) , Andrew Alexandar Adams (Meiji University, Japan), and Shirley Ann Williams (University of Reading, UK) performed a systematic study of the published literature on MOOCs between 2008 and 2012… more »
On June 6th and 7th Pierre Dillenbourg from EPFL organised a European MOOC Stakeholder meeting in Lausanne. On behave of TU Delft Nellie van de Griend attended this meeting (I had a more important event).
One of the goals of the meeting was to get a go… more »