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…
Another response to a Joanne Jacobs blog post, this one called ‘To fix college, ban ‘I feel’‘ When I was working for Texas Instruments I took a number of courses…
by Stephen Downes One exists to show us the wayIt is the self, it is todayIt is the place where we departed Without which we’d never get started Two exists…
Hiya City of Moncton (Please distribute to Council) February 28, 2013. The snow-blower came up my road today, which is nice, because it gets too narrow to drive on, especially…
I was asked, what areas would you recommend I focus on … to illustrate current e-learning practice? If it were me, I would do a three-stage presentation: – first, I’d…
I was asked, “I am interested in your perspective on what you feel may be the greatest scholarly contribution you have made in the area of online learning, particularly your…
The big news today is that New Brunswick Premier David Alward is willing to consider a referendum on the HST. CBC News reports, “the provincial government could hold a referendum…
Responding to Justin Fox, editorial director of the Harvard Business Review Group, How big should a government be? in the Harvard Business Review blogs. Interesting discussion overall, and it would…
Responding to a LinkedIn Discussion. When people ask me what makes a MOOC ‘massive’ I respond in terms of the *capacity* of the MOOC rather than any absolute numbers. In…
