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There is no Open in MOOC

Coursera’s announcement to add Specializations to its roster of educational packages comes with a new price in many cases, as noted in Carl Straumsheim’s 1/29 piece at Inside Higher Ed.

To sign up for Michigan State University’s How to Start Your Own Business, for example, budding entrepreneurs have to pay $79 up front for the first of five courses in the Specialization or prepay $474 for the entire program.

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Is There an S?

As part of my exploration of tools for online communication I checked out Fluid Survey.  It is a Canadian branch of Survey Monkey.  I was intending to do a survey and was intrigued by the fact that the server was housed in Canada so use of this tool did not violate the Freedom of Information and Personal Privacy Act.

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Quality Matters! Standard 1.3

It’s Quality Matters Day! Each week, we highlight a Quality Matters standard and review its importance in an online course and how we evaluate this standard.

Today, we are reviewing Quality Matters Standards 1.3

General Standard 1 addresses the course overview and introduction.

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Teachers: Now a Working Class Profession

magister“From the Sage on the Stage to the Guide on the Side” is now about 20 years old. A little shopworn, but still a…how shall I put it….goal, of some teachers and how they adapt to technology. It is the gist of an Atlantic article by Michael Godsey, a K-12 teacher witnessing the “progress” right before his eyes.…

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Freeloaders, Suckers and Monopolizers

In Seven problems of Online Group Learning (and their solutions) Roberts & McInnerney identify and elaborate on the challenges presented by online group work.  Some of these challenges include student antipathy towards group projects, creation of the groups themselves, assessing group work effectively and a potential lack of group skills. 
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