Blended Learning Community. MOOCs for Organisational Learning - Conversation with Kevin WerbachLearning Cafe. I recently participated in a MOOC (Massively Open Online Course) on Gamification along with 66,000 fellow learners run by Kevin Werbach.
Associate Professor, The Wharton School. I thoroughly enjoyed the MOOC and learnt a lot from it. We decided to speak to Kevin about his views about MOOCs. Kevin is a leading expert on the legal, business, and public policy aspects of the Network Age. Oldsmooc. Academic Partnerships' Faculty eCommons Expands Professional Development Programming - The Sacramento Bee. MOOCs are really a platform. We can officially declare massive open online courses (MOOCs) as the higher education buzzword for 2012.
Between Coursera, edX and smaller open course offerings, nearly $100 million in funding has been directed toward MOOCs in that past 8 months. Newspapers from NYTimes to Globe and Mail to publications such as the Chronicle of Higher Education, TV programs such as NPR, radio programs such as CBC, and a few hundred thousand blog posts have contributed to the hype. In higher education, there is joyful abundance of opinions on the topic, ranging from breathless proclamations of their disruptive potential to general dismissal of any value.
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