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Facilitating a Massive Open Online Course (Stephen Downes)

http://zaidlearn.blogspot.com/2012/01/imu-ls-04-facilitating-massive-open.html In this (nearly 2 hour online) talk Stephen Downes, one of the originators of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) format, described the organization and management of a MOOC, beginning with the arrangement of technology, organization of learning materials, communications with students, support tasks, and interaction with guest presenters.
The purpose of this document is two-fold: - to offer an online history of the development of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) - to use that history to describe major elements of a MOOC https://sites.google.com/site/themoocguide/home

The MOOC Guide

There has been a lot of buzz about the free and open Connectivism and Connective Knowledge course to be facilitated by George Siemens and Stephen Downes in September.

MOOC: Massive Open Online Course |

http://openeducationnews.org/2008/07/30/mooc-massive-open-online-course/