What’s Ours
As it was purchasing Tumblr, Yahoo was also quietly making changes to the Flickr photo sharing service. Flickr has been one of Yahoo’s few success stories recently, and this was…
Stephen Downes
MOOC – The Resurgence of Community in Online Learning
In this presentation Stephen Downes addresses the question of how massive open online courses (MOOCs) will impact the future of distance education. The presentation considers in some detail the nature…
MOOC – La résurgence de la communauté dans l’apprentissage en ligne
Texte de ma conférence a Edmunston – pour plus, svp voir http://www.downes.ca/presentation/317 Dans cette présentation, Stephen Downes aborde la question à savoir comment les MOOC (massive open online courses) influenceront…
A Theme Park E-Learning Application
Here’s the challenge (from the E-Learning Professionals Group): “Can anyone give me suggestions of how to blend learning objectives with ELearning. My goal is to have the user not know…
CN1376 AcadMOOC
7:54 pm Stephen Downes T -5 minutes 7:55 pm Mary Zedeck Hi Stephen! 7:55 pm Janesh Sanzgiri Excellent. Almost midnight here. 7:55 pm Javier Benítez disconnected 7:57 pm Susan Dixon…
Open for business: Refocused NRC
So here is what has been roiling Canada’s National Research Council over the last three years: NRC held a press conference in downtown Ottawa this morning with Gary Goodyear, Minister…
Assessment in MOOCs
I was asked: “I was wondering how they might work with the Humanities, as I teach Seventeenth-Century Literature, Shakespeare and other related subjects, which require research papers and final examinations.…
McLuhan – Understanding Media – Summary of Chapters 11-14
My contribution to the Understanding Media Reading Group Chapter 11 McLuhan writes, in Chapter 11 of Understanding Media, that “The mysterious need of crowds to grow and to reach out,…
The Great Rebranding
Responding to Michael Feldstein, who on summarizing the recent EDUCAUSE MOOC conference (see my summaries from this blog) represents MOOCs as yet another form of artifact in support of traditional…
Who is Funding the Canadian Taxpayer’s Federation?
I think it’s time to ask who is funding the self-styled Canadian Taxpayer’s Federation, and what they are funding them to do. A little transparency here would go a long…
Advice to OcTEL
Context: email to David Jennings, on the occasion of the start of the OcTEL MOOC, in which participants have been flooded with introductory emails from the course mailing list. Hi…
The MOOC as a Vehicle for Learning: Observations and Conclusions
Summary with speakers Malcolm Brown, Veronica Diaz, Michael Feldstein, Phil Hill Phil: There has been a very rich discussion about the different reasons for participating in MOOCs, the variety of…
MOOC Provider Panel: Coursera, Academic Partnerships, Instructure, edX
Summary of a panel with Maria H. Andersen (Canvas by Instructure), Relly Brandman (Coursera), Rebecca Petersen (EdX), Barbara E. Truman (Academic Partnerships) Question: How do you think the MOOC will…
International Perspective: The MOOC and Campus-Based Learning
Summary of a presentation by Phillip D. Long, University of Queensland Role of the University: – Drew Faust, Harvard: it’s not really about what’s happening term by term or even…
Assessing the Efficacy of Third-Party MOOCs in Hybrid Instruction
Summary of a presentation by Rebecca Griffiths, ITHAKA Why did we start this study? It’s very difficult to engage students ‘in the wild’. They come in with a great deal…
Digging into MOOC Mania: One Investor’s Key Research Questions and Approach
Summary of a presentation from Stacey L. Clawson, Anh Nguyen, Gates Foundation (Stacey) MOOCs are one of the trends that are top of mind for institutional leaders. Institutions are pursuing…
Multiple Lessons Learned from Implementing MOOC Environments at San Jose State University
Summary of a presentation by speaker Ellen Junn Technically our MOOCs aren’t MOOCs any more, because we’re doing them for college credit, so there’s a fee involved. Also not all…
Backgrounds and Behaviors of MOOC Participants and Implications for Faculty
Summar of a presentation by Lori Breslow (MIT), Jennifer DeBoer (MIT), Andrew Ho (Harvard)(Andrew) Although open sources and online teaching is not new in a passive way, open learning as…
Using an Open Source Platform to Meet Online Learning Goals
Summary of a presentation from Amy Collier (Stanford) and Jane Manning (Stanford) Eventifier tweets: http://www.eventifier.co/event/elifocus/tweets?page=18 (Jane) If you haven’t seen it already, EdX has announced it will be releasing its…
Who Are Our Students? Bridging Local and Global Learning Communities
Summary of a presentation by Derek Bruff, Vanderbilt University, @derekbruff We have had 173,810 students enrolled in VU’s five courses as of March 27, 2013. It doesn’t mean everybody is…