Alastair Creelman and Linda Renland-Forsman have written an interesting paper on completion rates in online courses:
Statistics are often used to reveal significant differences between online and campus-based education. The existence of online courses… more »
Archives for: "September 2013"
Yesterday we organised an informal launch event for our DelftX MOOCs. With the push of the button of the two teachers the courses opened at 13.30 (Delft time).
We also made a short video of the event: more »
Tomorrow at 13.30 (Delft time) the first two MOOCs (Solar Energy and Introduction to Water Treatment) of Delftx will start. The last couple of months we have been working hard organise the production process of our MOOCs and helping the faculty with the… more »
This fall I will speak at quiet a lot of conferences. I will speak in Leuven, Athens, Park City, Rotterdam, Nairobi, Amstelveen and Leiden. It is all about Open Education and mostly about MOOCs.
September:
19th: DigHum Summerschool I will speak th… more »
Today EdX and Google announced their partnership:
EdX, the not-for-profit online learning initiative founded by Harvard and MIT, today announced a partnership with Google to jointly develop their open-source learning platform, known as Open EdX. The co… more »
Deze week starte de eerste MOOC van de Open Universiteit. Het onderwerp is E-learning. Ik was natuurlijk vooral benieuwd naar de open licentie die de OU hiervoor gebruikt. Fred Mulder en Robert Schuwer van de OU zijn hiervoor een groot pleiter en dan mo… more »