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As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I count. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. The average completion rate for MOOCs (including the ones I design) hovers between 5-15 percent. This skepticism is not unwarranted.
Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs. I typically build MOOCs, but this spring, I designed an online program for a cohort of 16 nonprofit leaders.
In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Small-scale seminars can be intimate and powerful. It never does.
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The free half-day seminar is open to the public and will take place online via Blackboard Collaborate on April 30, 2015, from 12 p.m. The MOOC had a massive global reach, but “there is a need to continue to prepare for the emerging future,” stated Alman.
There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.
My own particular research interest at the time was to use audio and video conferencing technology (videoconferencing was very new at the time) as a means of connecting together our remote study centres so that all students could access the same content and hear the same visiting lecturers without missing out on the experience.
But other departments already provide the backbone (internet connectivity, access to hardware, etc) and can afford – even desire – to let Domain projects go on. Q: Autumm Caines asked:”I’m getting ready to teach a 1st year seminar on digital citizenship. Use open and free tools, then share out what you do.
But other departments already provide the backbone (internet connectivity, access to hardware, etc) and can afford – even desire – to let Domain projects go on. Q: Autumm Caines asked:”I’m getting ready to teach a 1st year seminar on digital citizenship. Use open and free tools, then share out what you do.
I was expected to lecture, give tutorials and maybe seminars or laboratories depending on the topic. Personally I didn’t mind if my own content was open access but others were concerned that their material would be ‘stolen’ or that learners would be able to get something for nothing. Now I disagree. It’s simply too complicated.
I was expected to lecture, give tutorials and maybe seminars or laboratories depending on the topic. Personally I didn’t mind if my own content was open access but others were concerned that their material would be ‘stolen’ or that learners would be able to get something for nothing. Now I disagree. It’s simply too complicated.
This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. ” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity.
It’s worth reexamining how we’re recreating these educational walled gardens online—as we move from the heyday of MOOCs in 2012 to the gradual decline of open access courseware in 2017. In the first wave of online learning, we focused on democratizing access to content.
A must-read on Trump University from Ars Technica : “Trump University and the art of the get-rich seminar.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”)
If you’re new to the topic, or curious, read these slides , which are much more accessible than the preceding sentence suggests. Face-to-face instruction was the privilege of the 1%, while the middle class made do with distance learning, and everyone else had versions of MOOCs. If not, skip to the next part.
Trump University promised that the instructors for the real-estate and business seminars were “hand-picked” by Trump. Funnily enough, many of the very publications who consistently made fun of the offerings from Trump University rarely offer any critical analysis of the structure or content of MOOCs or coding bootcamps.
“ Digital Promise Global has received a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to address equitable access to computational education in public schools,” Education Week reports. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Devonshire Investors has acquired MOOC startup NovoEd.
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