I recently finished reading this nifty little book on the subject of crowdsourcing. The term was first created by Jeff Howe in Wired Magazine who used it to describe a series of projects and strategies that involve lots of people pooling their sense organs, intelligence, wisdom, imagination or unused computer cycles to some type of […]
Welcome MOOCs Forum
I was recently told that MOOC news will be arriving rapidly and furiously this fall, and I’ll try to keep up with communication and analysis of any major developments during this period. Earlier this week, I talked about the significance of the new edX-Google partnership MOOC.org and yesterday I got to see a copy of […]
MOOCs – Is the Sky Falling?
The latest version of the “Glass-Half-Empty” critique of MOOCs focuses on recent pull-backs of attempts to make massive online courses count towards official college credit. As this story highlights, legislation submitted that would require colleges to accept MOOC credentials in California and Florida has been quietly shelved. And programs designed to eliminate hurdles that were […]
MOOC.org
I kind of breezily mentioned MOOC.org, the new partnership between edX and Google, in a recent posting without addressing the significance of the coming together of the open-source course management system of one of the world’s premiere MOOC providers with, well… Google. Google has made forays into the educational s space over the years, notably by packaging […]
Interview with Sanjay Sarma, MIT’s Director of Digital Learning
On this week’s podcast, MIT’s Director of Digital Learning Sanjay Sarma joins us to talk about what MOOCs mean both outside and inside the classroom. Professor Sarma is the Fred Fort Flowers and Daniel Fort Flowers Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as well as the first person to hold the […]
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