Open Education
40 posts
10 Things I’ve Learned (So Far) from Making a Meta-MOOC
Open Education
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
Tales of a MOOC Dropout
MOOC
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
How to Build an Ethical Online Course
Digital Pedagogy
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
How Do Learners Experience Open Online Learning?
Learners
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
Fight the Dead, Fear the MOOC: Questioning The Walking Dead MOOC
MOOC
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
Meaningful Collaboration: Revitalizing Small Colleges with MOOC Hybrids
MOOC
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
MOOCifying K-12: Relationships, Collaboration, Risk-Taking
K-12
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
In Connectivism, No One Can Hear You Scream: a Guide to Understanding the MOOC Novice
editors’ picks
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
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Straining the Quality of MOOCs: Student Retention and Intention
MOOC
“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/
10 min read
Open-source Scholarship
Intellectual Property
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
A Manifesto for Community Colleges, Lifelong Learning, and Autodidacts
Community Colleges
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
Of Machine Guns and MOOCs: 21st Century Engineering Disasters
Digital culture
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,
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Learning Beyond Limits: Open Source Collaboration in the Classroom
Composition
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
Learning in the Collective
Community
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