Below is an archive of a Connected Learning #clmoc Twitter chat that took place last week. It was created by Kevin Hodgson, a middle school teacher from Massachusetts.
You can find this and other ideas submitted by Kevin and #clmooc members in this G+ community and this Facebook community.…
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Loading...I wrote a MOOC history in 2014. I also wrote about Donald Trump and MOOCs in 2013. Prior to my blog, no one had linked MOOCs and Trump, and my link was tangential. Honestly, the only way I could further imagine a link from Trump to MOOCs is if he promoted my history.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I had the good fortune earlier this week to be invited to participate in a Google Hangout to explore the story of ETMOOC, a connectivist MOOC initiated in 2013 by Alec Couros, a professor of educational technology at the University of Regina in Saskatchewan, Canada.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Earlier this year I had the opportunity to participate in ETMOOC (my final reflections capture some of the experience) and am happy to now find that the community of educators that emerged from this event is at it again.
Starting in September comes #OOE13 – Open Online Experience 2013 – actually a school-year-long professional development opportunity for K-16 educators interested in technology and learning.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...I’ve been internally debating the use of the term xMOOC to describe the Coursera/Udacity/edX offerings for a while now. This first came about when I started to study neoliberalism, and realize that there was not a true north definition; it was a term that fit the needs of the author, and usually in a way that cast scorn and dispersions on those umbrellaed via it. …
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Having done a considerable amount of research on student learning and digital learning tools to build my capstone experience for my graduate work, during and prior to my edTech MOOC experience, has solidified the idea of open education for me. I can imagine what Buckminster Fuller, a strong influencer in my thinking and work, might say about all this connectivist methodology.…
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...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.…
(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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