Daniel’s comprehensive review of MOOC developments
Daniel, J. (2012) Making sense of MOOCs: Musings in a maze of myth, paradox and possibility Seoul: Korean National Open University
This is the most...
The challenge of converting MOOCs (or anything else) into college credits
Kolowich, S. (2012) The online pecking order Inside Higher Education, August 2
This article takes a careful and detailed look at different ways that students...
What’s right and what’s wrong about Coursera-style MOOCs
TED Talks: Daphne Koller: What we're learning from online education
Daphne Koller, one of the two founders of Coursera, describes some of the key features...
UC Berkeley joins edX
Public Affairs (2012) UC Berkeley joins Harvard and MIT not-for-profit online learning collaborative Berkeley CA: UC Berkeley
Another big name joins the MOOC movement. However,...
“What should we do about MOOCs?” – the Board of Governors discusses
By accident, a microphone was left switched on at a medium sized state university's Board of Governors meeting last week. In the best tradition...
Nine steps to quality online learning: Step 8: Communicate, communicate, communicate
© Care2, 2012In this post I stress the importance of ongoing, continuing communication between instructor and students in an online environment, and in particular...
Nine steps to quality online learning: Step 7: Design course structure and learning activities
In this post the importance of providing students with a structure for learning online and setting appropriate learning activities is discussed. Indeed, I will...
Nine steps to quality online learning: Step 6: Set appropriate learning goals
In this post I argue that you need to think about what kinds of goals could best be achieved in an online course, rather...
Nine steps to quality online learning: Step 5: Master the technology
In this post I argue that taking the time to be properly trained in how to use standard learning technologies will in the long...
Concevoir l’enseignment en ligne pour répondre aux besoins des apprenants du 21e siècle
Il est l'heure quand beaucoup des universités et des collèges Canadiennes offrent la formation aux professeurs. Ainsi j'avais été bien occupé pendant les dernières...