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MOOC Interrupted: Top 10 Reasons Our Readers Didn’t Finish a Massive Open Online Course
Here is a summary of the 10 most commonly-cited reasons students don’t finish a MOOC.
http://www.openculture.com/2013/04/10_reasons_you_didnt_complete_a_mooc.html
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Presentation of the Week: Embracing OER & MOOCs to Transform Education
Presentation of the Week: Blending the University: Beyond MOOCs
How are MOOCs organized?
A real-time chronicle of a seasoned professor who is about to give his second massively open online course (MOOC).
Stanford Makes MOOC Open Source Platform, Class2Go, Available to All
The platform is open, meaning that you can grab the code base for free and run it on your very own server. Class2Go is also portable, giving schools the ability to move documents and media to other platforms if they …
Presentation of the Week: Ed Tech, MOOCs and Beyond
What MOOCs Will, Won’t, and Might Do
An inteersting analysis on what MOOCs can and cannot do.
http://edudemic.com/2013/01/what-moocs-will-wont-and-might-do/…
MOOCs and Pedagogy: Teacher-Centered, Student-Centered, and Hybrids
“In a traditional course, the instructor creates knowledge coherence by bounding the domain of knowledge that the learners will explore: i.e. this is the course text, here are the readings, quizzes will validate that you’ve learned what I think is …
Presentation of the Week: The Virtual Learning Organization
Gates Foundation funds online university open access
Online courses provided by some of the top universities in the United States are going to be used by students at local community colleges, in a project funded by the Gates Foundation.
Presentation of the Week: Sustainability and MOOCs in Historical Perspective
The Technology of Massive Open Online Courses
Experts in artificial intelligence are leaving academia to bring online learning to the world. But their most radical ideas are still on hold.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506326/the-technology-of-massive-open-online-courses/…
Coursera, edX, and MOOCs Are Changing the Online Education Business
Students anywhere are being offered free instruction online. What will that do to the trillion-dollar education business?
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/506351/the-most-important-education-technology-in-200-years/…
The 1-minute guide to MOOCs
If you’re wondering what MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are about, here’s a brief overview. All in 1 minute. For fast readers.