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Loading...MOOCs for credit — from insidehighered.com by Scott Jaschik
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Two announcements this week suggest that MOOCs — massive open online courses — will increasingly include a route for students to receive academic credit.
Georgia State University announced Tuesday that it will start to review MOOCs for credit much like it reviews courses students have taken at other institutions, or exams they have taken to demonstrate competency in certain areas.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I still haven’t finished my “Introduction” to ETMOOC post, but will do that soon. I just had to get this post out of my head tonight.
This afternoon, I attended Dean Shareski’s Sharing as Accountability session in the #ETMOOC (Educational Technology Massive Online Open Course) today.…
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I have just finished watching the recorded session for the Welcome & Orientation for #etmooc, and I would like to begin by posting the last question one of the attendees asked Dr Couros: “Alec, why do you do this MOOC on your sabbatical time?”…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...This week in ETMOOC we are talking about connecting as a way to network and learn from one another. One of the ways we connect is in our Google+ ETMOOC Community. Last night, while reviewing posts, I saw one from David Saunders, who created his introductory post using “PopCorn Maker.”…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...After the #etmooc Blackboard Collaborate session Tuesday night with Alec Couros on Connected Learning, I started to think more about my PLN and the prompts that were suggested. How would I define my PLN – in words, in imagery? Being a visual person, I wanted to represent it with a graphic, so I started to think about the best way(s) to do that.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...My two children want to know why I want them to steer clear of water fountains and high touch museums right now, and I explain about the flu coursing through our communities, and how quickly things spread when we all share the same physical space.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...An Academic Partnerships program called MOOC2Degree takes existing programs that offered online (but not as MOOCs) and are fully accredited through their host institutions, and makes the first course into a MOOC — open to all and free, but awarding credit to those who complete successfully.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...We are coming to the end of the summer break and what a rather warm summer break it has been. As a result of that I am a bit behind with ETMOOC – well a bit behind where I would like to be in the days before I have actual commitments during the day.…
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I’ve been lucky to have been to 2 courses run by Alec Couros in Sydney. So the first session the connected/networked educator I had been to before. But the beauty of it is that there is always something new to learn.…
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