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MOOCs: Top 10 Sites for Free Education With Elite Universities

MOOCs: Top 10 Sites for Free Education With Elite Universities
MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Courses. Although there has been access to free online courses on the Internet for years, the quality and quantity of courses has changed. Access to free courses has allowed students to obtain a level of education that many only could dream of in the past. This has changed the face of education. In The New York Times article Instruction for Masses Knocked Down Campus Walls, author Tamar Lewin stated, “in the past few months hundreds of thousands of motivated students around the world who lack access to elite universities have been embracing them as a path toward sophisticated skills and high-paying jobs, without paying tuition or collecting a college degree.” Although MOOCs are the latest trend, not everyone agrees that schools should offer them. There may also be some issues for students who lack motivation. For those who desire a free education and have the motivation, the following includes the: Top 10 Sites for Information about MOOCs: Related:  MOOCs and Other Online Courses

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Los Mooc en la educación del futuro: la digitalización de la formación Identificar los desafíos de los MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) que aún quedan por resolver: ofrecer una formación personalizada, mejorar el contacto entre profesores y alumnos, buscar formas de evaluación adecuadas, medir la asistencia, avalar el grado de cumplimiento mediante certificados… Explorar cómo las nuevas tecnologías pueden ofrecer soluciones: social media, big data, learning analytics, plataformas adaptativas, open content, tecnologías inmersivas… Reflexionar acerca de una tendencia que puede transformar los modelos que en general han permanecido estables durante el último siglo, permitiendo la entrada de nuevas prácticas pedagógicas, como aprendizaje mediante la exploración, la gamificación… Verificar si nos encontramos ante mucho más que herramientas de difusión masiva de contenidos, o un fenómeno con capacidades disruptivas… ¿Te interesa? 11 Competencias Digitales del Profesorado para el diseño de Mooc ¿Estás preparado para diseñar un Mooc para tu aula? Son éstas:

Open Educational Resources - CU Open cuOpen currently provides access to a handful of open educational resources that you can adopt and adapt for your own use, including: Certificate in Blended and Online Teaching In 2014, Carleton became the first Ontario university to offer a dedicated and comprehensive certificate program that enhances educators’ abilities to develop and teach blended and online courses. All of the materials and modules from that program are now available online as open educational resources so that other institutions can adopt, contextualize and personalize them for their own blended and online teaching programs. The Certificate in Blended and Online Teaching program features 11 modules, which can be completed as a whole or as stand-alone resources. By the end of the program, participants should be able to: Create an online or blended moduleEngage and motivate students in online and blended learning environments Online Teaching Resources R for Biologists Fundamentals for Polyhedral Combinatorics

Massive Open Course en ligne (MOOC) What Is a MOOC? A massive open online course (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to any person who wants to take a course, with no limit on attendance. This updated ELI 7 Things You Should Know About MOOCs II (June 2013) provides additional key facts about MOOCs. A short video about MOOCs and the connected age. MOOC Resources How Students Engage with a Remedial English Writing MOOC: A Case Study in Learning Analytics with Big Data, ELI Brief, March 2015. Previous Events EDUCAUSE Sprint 2013, July 30–August 1. Looking for more sessions on MOOCs? MOOCs of Interest Current/Future State of Higher Education 2012. MOOC Providers material educativo

70 Top Sources of Free eLearning Courses Two years ago we featured Julie DeNeen’s (@jdeneen4) 50 Top Sources Of Free eLearning Courses on Getting Smart. Since, we’ve seen platforms enhance, accessibility skyrocket, and course content flourish. With the recent conclusion of our 2nd Annual Smart Lists we updated this blockbuster of free and open resources with 20 additional platforms and sites. Let the learning begin.1. UMass Boston Open Courseware The UMass courseware offers a broad range of classes in areas like psychology, biology, early education, political science, history, mathematics, and others. Each department has a separate page listing the classes available. This website has a variety of video lessons for free. For those looking for courses that will test even the brightest student, MIT is sure not to disappoint. Stanford on iTunes U gives you two options. This website offers an array of courses from different universities. This is one of the largest website databases for open courseware.

Formation en ligne ouverte à tous Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Logo de Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). Schéma présentant huit concepts-clé d'un MOOC connectiviste, concernant la relation pédagogique (en beige) et le cadre techno-organisationnels et éthiques (en bleu). La dimension collaborative s'appuiera par exemple sur des wikis permettant aux apprenants et enseignants d'améliorer chaque année les ressources et supports pédagogiques à disposition de tous, par exemple sur les grands wikis de la Wikimedia Foundation. Poster anglophone titré « MOOC, every letter is negotiable », (« MOOC, chaque lettre est négociable »), explorant le sens de chaque lettre de l'acronyme MOOC. Les participants aux cours, enseignants et élèves, sont dispersés géographiquement et communiquent uniquement par Internet. Éléments de définition[modifier | modifier le code] Types[modifier | modifier le code] En juillet 2012, une typologie des MOOC a été proposée par Stephen Downes[9] reprise par George Siemens dans un papier[10].

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