By demonstrating that you could build a very “open” course on Coursera, the University of Edinburgh team in charge of E-learning and Digital Cultures succeeded in breaking down some walls between the large-scale free course (called xMOOC by some critics) and the cMOOC connectivist learn-fest.…
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“Get it” instantly. “It” being everything.
Based on a cover of “Amazing Stories” magazine, downloaded from http://www.philsp.com/data/images/a/amazing_stories_194612.jpg
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...It is a good season for “MOOCs”, Massive Open Online Courses, and you can spot several of them in full action. But the term “MOOC” has come to cover a range of wildly different kinds of ehm… learning events. Indeed, for some of these, “course”, might be the wrong word.…
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Mashup by me.
Week 1. Would this representation qualify as utopian or dystopian? Please discuss.
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(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Ever since the course on Coursera officially started, the Google+ and Facebook groups have been hit by a tidal wave of new members. It’s more important now than ever to make decisions about my own focus and filters.
I would really like to find a cluster of like-minded souls in the #EDCMOOC cloud!…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...The #edcmooc starts in a week, and already it gathers a lot of attention. Some participants have been busy gearing up as early as three months before the kick-off, and words like “keeping up” and “overwhelming” flow by on the Google+ stream.…
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MOOC
MOOC stands for Massive Online Open Course.
“Massive” stands for the scale, a MOOC is open to an indefinite amount of students, and that can mean a positively huge amount. At this point the number of students registered for the EDCMOOC has reached the 36 000 mark, and counting.…
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