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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Summary of a presentation from Jason Mock http://moxbox.info/presentations/2013/march/whats-it-us-benefits-campus-courses-running-mooc Let’s talk about the reasons institutions and people are getting involved in MOOCs We can look at brand reputation, or just keeping…
Summary of a presentation by Cathy Sandeen, Centre for Education, Attainment and Innovation, ACE I am actually a MOOC completer – I thought it was a good idea to experience…
Summary of a presentation by Seth Anderson (Duke), Amy Collier (Stanford), Cassandra Horlii (California Institute of Technology) Amy: What is unique about online learning in MOOCs? Kurt Vonnegut once said…
Summary of a presentation by Peter Struck I (Peter) am coming from a background as a practitioner, beginning especially with web 2.0 courses. We then offered a course over Coursera,…
Summary of a presentation by Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein. Phil – there’s so much hype or madness around MOOCs, and there’s a lot of discussion from people who were…
I had a brief chat with Georges Corriveau this morning that got me to thinking about the future of work. Specifically, I was thinking to myself, if I were just…
These are based on emails sent to me announcing recen MOOCs. It’s a bit hard to keep up, but I’ve posted what I can here (mostly copied and pasted from…
I was asked (along with Dave Cormier and George Siemens): “How might it be possible to show that cMOOCs are effective for learning, in the sense of providing evidence that…
I don’t think Wendman’s comments really respond to the concerns expressed in the Mayes article. Mark Wendman’s argument is essentially:– the delays have been caused by the protests in the…
Brief quotable answers to a request for input to a forthcoming article on open online learning. Do you want to reduce the ‘lurkers’ as used in an article on your…
Stephen Downes: Thank you everyone. Buenos Dias. It’s a genuine pleasure to be able to be back in Bogotá, back in Colombia, and to be able to speak with you…
