How Meetups Can Improve Your MOOC Experience. Udacity - Free Online College Courses. Coursera. University of Manchester joins Coursera. The University of Manchester has become the third UK university to join the US massive open online course platform Coursera.
The agreement will see Manchester offer four courses free online: water supply and sanitation policy in developing countries; global health and humanitarianism; an introduction to population health; and our Earth: its climate, history and processes. Dates have yet to be confirmed. The North-West institution was one of 13 universities to join Coursera today, taking the platform’s total number of partners to 97.
Other new members include the Netherlands’ Eindhoven Institute of Technology, Russia’s Saint Petersburg State University, and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. “We are proud to welcome to the Coursera partnership this group of outstanding institutions from 11 different countries, demonstrating the ever-growing global impact of this movement,” said Daphne Koller, co-founder of Coursera. Transforming Indian Education with MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) MOOCs Helping Teachers in Flipping Their Classroom. About ETR Community EdTechReview (ETR) is a community of and for everyone involved in education technology to connect and collaborate both online and offline to discover, learn, utilize and share about the best ways technology can improve learning, teaching, and leading in the 21st century.
First Steps into Learning & Teaching in Higher Education: 21 May – 22 June '12. Read the final report here (pdf).
Also available on the HEA project website. Dissemination outputs for the project can be found here. What is a MOOC? Massive open online course. Poster, entitled "MOOC, every letter is negotiable", exploring the meaning of the words "Massive Open Online Course" A massive open online course (MOOC /muːk/) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web.[1] In addition to traditional course materials such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive user forums to support community interactions among students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs).
MOOCs are a recent and widely researched development in distance education which were first introduced in 2006 and emerged as a popular mode of learning in 2012.[2][3] Early MOOCs often emphasized open-access features, such as open licensing of content, structure and learning goals, to promote the reuse and remixing of resources. Some later MOOCs use closed licenses for their course materials while maintaining free access for students.[4][5][6][7] History[edit] What is a MOOC?
Precursors[edit] Early approaches[edit] No such thing as a free MOOC. In his recent Jisc blog, David Kernohan asks: ‘Why bother paying inflated fees to attend university?
…What if you could get it all for free, online?’ Of course, it is tongue in cheek, because as my title above suggests, you don’t get something for nothing. Announcing my MOOC, Human Evolution: Past and Future. I have begun a project that may change the way we teach and communicate the science of human evolution.
Starting in January, 2014, I will be offering a massive open online course titled, "Human Evolution: Past and Future". This course and all its materials will be open and free for anyone, anywhere in the world. As of this moment, more than 6500 people have already signed up for the course. The course is still more than nine months away, and I'll be developing materials across the entire time up through January. MOOC - The Resurgence of Community in Online Learning. In this presentation Stephen Downes addresses the question of how massive open online courses (MOOCs) will impact the future of distance education.
The presentation considers in some detail the nature and purpose of a MOOC in contrast with traditional distance education. He argues that MOOCs represent the resurgence of community-based learning and will describe how distance education institutions will share MOOCs with each other and will supplement online interaction with community-based resources and services. The phenomenon of 'wrapped MOOCs' will be described, and Downes will outline several examples of local support for global MOOCs. The implications for the French-speaking world of distance education will be considered, and Downes will outline strategies and examples of the use of MOOCs to promote linguistic diversity.
What is a MOOC? Thank you, it is a pleasure to be able to be here today. So, first I will talk about what I mean by a MOOC and expand a bit on MOOC pedagogy. MOOCs & Higher Education’s Two Solitudes. I grew up in Quebec – Canada’s predominantly French-language province.
But my neighbourhood was inhabited almost entirely by English speaking families. And my clan – with it’s UK-origins – fit right in. The sharp divide between the French and English in Quebec has faded somewhat since I moved away. But at the time, the divide felt “natural” as these sorts of things often do when we know of no other way. Author Hugh McLennan depicted the divide between Canada’s french and english in his novel Two Solitudes, and although his novel is more than half a century old, the phrase “two solitudes” remains in use. Two Solitudes came to mind recently when speaking with a friend about MOOCs. There were others, though, for whom the celebratory and revolutionary language used to describe MOOCs seemed unjustified, even perplexing. The underlying inequality of MOOCs. Anybody who has been paying any small amount of attention to educational headlines in the past few years will be well rehearsed in the proposed benefits of MOOCs.
A cursory online search will provide you with endless news articles, blog posts, TED talks and accompanying comments that cite the reasons why MOOCs, enabling global access to Ivy League-standard education, are the biggest thing to shake up education in the United States, if not the world. However, repetition does not establish truth, and unsubstantiated claims should be treated with suspicion. University launches online course with TV show. 5 September 2013Last updated at 07:52 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent A university course will be based on TV show the Walking Dead Can zombies be the stuff of serious academic study?
IMF launching courses on online university. 21 June 2013Last updated at 10:04 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent The IMF wants to raise public understanding of economic problems facing governments around the world The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is set to join an online university network and will run finance courses which will be available free to students around the world. This first step into the world of higher education will include the topical subject of debt. The global organisation, responsible for promoting financial stability, is going to deliver courses in partnership with the edX online university platform, set up by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The IMF will run two courses in financial policy, aimed initially at government officials, with plans to make this open to the public next year.
Dinosaur experts launch online university course. 1 August 2013Last updated at 13:42 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent A Daspletosaurus dinosaur from the Cretaceous era in Alberta, Canada A Canadian university is turning its international expertise in studying dinosaurs into a free online course. This latest stage in the rapid expansion in online university education is the University of Alberta's "Dino 101" course. Students at the university can take the same course and count it as a credit towards a palaeontology degree.
The online course materials will use interactive techniques developed for the gaming industry. The course in dinosaur paleobiology will be available from September through the California-based Coursera online network, which has gathered 4.2 million students and 86 universities and other partners since it launched last year. Fossil record The Canadian university has an international specialism in dinosaur studies, including a world-leading dinosaur expert, Dr Philip Currie.
Massive open online courses - threat or opportunity? 1 July 2013Last updated at 08:26 ET What is a Mooc? Newsnight's David Grossman explains. UK universities 'face online threat' UK universities in online launch to challenge US. 13 December 2012Last updated at 21:46 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Southampton is among the UK universities joining this digital start-up. Edinburgh University hails online 'milestone' Rush to log on to online courses at Edinburgh University. Universities go virtual: 'Bricks to online clicks' Online universities launching courses for teachers. Gates Foundation funds online university open access. Online university giant gets bigger. Cable warns overseas students in 'immigration panic' 29 May 2013 Last updated at 11:23 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Vince Cable warned against "absurd" visa regulations to "placate public panic" The "torrid" debate about immigration is in danger of damaging the economically valuable recruitment of overseas students to the UK, says Business Secretary Vince Cable.
Speaking at a Global University Summit in London, Mr Cable warned overseas students had become caught up in the "public panic" over migrant numbers. Mr Cable said it was "absurd" to see a cut in student numbers as a triumph. Lessons from online learning. 28 August 2013Last updated at 10:01 ET. MassiveOpenOnlineCourses.pdf.