Open Course on Open Education: Museums and MOOCs. This blog is for Activity 12 as part of the 'Open Education' MOOC run by the Open University BackgroundMOOCs stands for Massive Online Open Courses and has rapidly become one of the educational buzz-words of the moment.The term was first used by Dave Cormier of the University of Prince Edward Island in Canada to describe an online course run by two fellow academics, George Siemens and Stephen Downes.
It emerged out of the Open Educational Resources (OER) movement. See Willey's "On the Sustainability of Open Educational Resources Initiatives in Higher Education" (2007) for a useful discussion of OERs.This video by Dave Cormier is a helpful explanation of what is a MOOC is. Since then universities, especially in the United States, have started to produce their own MOOCs. Lets go through each of these initials one-by-one: Massive Hopefully, this is self-explanatory. MOOCs at Museums on the Web, and the joy of mistakes (?) On Wednesday, I will be traveling to Portland, Or. to attend Museums and the Web 2013.
I’m pretty excited. MOW has always been a favorite conference of mine. It is always fun and there are always interesting people who do really interesting and creative work in some cool places. It’s been a couple of years since I went, to it will be even more fun. Although I am excited, I’ve also been a bit nervous about it. I looked at my writing and felt that something was missing. Their are a lot of things that I like about MOOCs and I need to be careful not to sound like a one of those guys on infomercials.
While wondering about what I’m writing and what I will be speaking about (I will be on a panel with Deborah Howes, Robert Rutherford, and Slavko Milekic), I opened up a TED talk that I’ve been meaning to listen to and heard the words that I’ve been trying to say. His talk is brilliant and I felt that one idea that he mentioned really described how I felt about my MOOC blogs. El sitio en la red de Jordi Adell. Observaciones sobre el impacto de los servicios de detección de plagio en las universidades15 de abril de 2014(Traducción al castellano del informe original en catalán, publicado en la web del CENT).
La Universitat Jaume I y otras universidades de nuestro entorno han estado considerando la integración de servicios de detección de plagio (SDP en adelante). Los SDP son sistemas informáticos diseñados para detectar similitudes en los textos y otros materiales presentados por los y las estudiantes para su evaluación. Existen sistemas comerciales y libres. Algunos de los más conocidos son Turnitin, Ephorus o Unkund. Lo que los MOOCs deberían aprender de la Comédie Française… y de Isasa Weis.