xMOOCs: Labeling the Big Higher Ed MOOC?
Came across an interesting piece from Bonnie Stewart, providing a potential answer to a definition I was grappling with: she calls the Coursera/EdX/Udacity model of MOOC an xMOOC (perhaps because of...
View ArticlePedagogy – You Keep Using That Word…I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It...
In his reflection on the first week of #cfhe12, Bryan Alexander looks at the continued fervor behind MOOCs, as well as the focus of economics in the initial discussions coming from #cfhe12. Bryan...
View ArticleConnectivism: Contemporary Learning Theory, Distance Ed Theory, or Pedagogy...
I’m still trying to wrap my head around connectivism, the learning theory developed by George Siemens and Stephen Downes that in a lot of ways led to the growth of distance education and the...
View ArticleConnectivism Applied: The Toddler Test
Recently I posted about my current research into connectivism and my belief that it is more pedagogial than theoretical. I noted that my understanding of connectivism (something I consider integral to...
View ArticleNaNoWriMo & the MOOC Relationship
National Novel Writing Month, known colloquially as NaNoWriMo, starts today and runs through the month of November, encouraging participants to write 50,000 words toward a novel. This is the 14th year...
View ArticleThird-Party MOOCs
Defining the MOOC phenomenon from an educational perspective starts with theoretical foundation, and in order to build a theoretical foundation, one must look at the history of a movement. This...
View ArticleA Critical Review of Andrew Ng’s “Learning from MOOCs”
My research and scholarship revolves around how learning technology (specifically recent explosions in distance and online learning technologies such as Khan Academy, cMOOCs and xMOOCs) affects the...
View ArticleMOOCs: Where’s the Lit Review?
One of the purposes of research is to establish a foundation of prior knowledge for future experiments to engage and extrapolate before proposing a new design that will further the field. This is...
View ArticleDefining Edu Terms & MOOC Simulacra
At the heart of the Open Education Resources movement (and the Open movement in general) is the notion that education is a public good. The progression to such sentiment may be based in a notion that...
View Article#OpenEd13 Presentation – We Have Lost the Term “MOOC”
Video of my presentation MOOCseum: Using the Open Movement to Invigorate Local Museums is posted below. Attendees were engaged and responsive, and the numbers were impressive especially considering...
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