On January 27th, Cathy N. Davidson launches “The History and Future of (Mostly)
Higher Education,” [https://www.coursera.org/course/highered]a MOOC connected to
dozens of other courses and events distributed across
In September 2013,Hybrid Pedagogypublished an e-book of graduate student essays
focused on student experiences in MOOCs — from EdX, Udacity, and other xMOOCs,
to improvisational MOOCs created by the students themselves using open
The best online and hybrid courses are made from scraps strewn about and
gathered together from across the web. We build a course by examining the bits,
considering how they’re connected, and
During the summer of 2013, George Veletsianos approached the editors of Hybrid
Pedagogy about publishing a collection of graduate student essays. The
collection focused on these students’ experiences in a variety of MOOCs
On October 14th, theCanvas Network
[https://www.canvas.net/courses/the-walking-dead]will launch a new massive open
online course inspired by the popular television seriesThe Walking Dead.
Instructure [http://www.instructure.com/]has
When MOOCs went viral in 2012, traditional small colleges reached an identity
crossroads, a midlife crisis where idealism and wisdom collide. Although the
main concerns of future viability have been present for years
Just over a year ago, my “learning” exploded. I was developing a hybrid Canadian
online delivery program for Chinese high school students. I was encouraged to
push the boundaries of K-12 online and
This article is an attempt to address a possible gap in Connectivist thinking,
and its expression in cMOOCs. It’s to do with the experience of technology
novices, and unconfident learners in cMOOC
“Learners are classified based on their patterns of interaction with video
lectures and assessments, the primary features of most MOOCs to date.”—Rene F.
Kizilcec, et al.
[http://www.stanford.edu/~cpiech/bio/
Scholarship is, by its nature, open source.
Let me explain.
The open-source (or “free” or “libre”) software movement centers around a single
ideal: community ownership of software. Open-source software may or may not
As some are raised a Catholic or an atheist or a vegetarian, I was raised an
academic. The university always had about it a mystique, a cloud of mystery and
veneration. Lauded in
Victorian hubris opined, “All that can be invented has been invented
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Holland_Duell],” and so we entered the
20th century emboldened with a Titanic which was unsinkable,
The Challenge:Incorporate an open source community service project into every
class.
What happens to a student paper or project after the individual turns it in or
presents it in class? Where does
InA New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of
Constant
Change [http://www.newcultureoflearning.com/],Douglas Thomas and John Seely
Brown write, “Embracing Change means looking forward to what will
