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What Makes a MOOC a MOOC?

ID Reflections

When George Siemens , Dave Cormier and Stephen Downes came up with the concept in 2008, they had a vision of how a “learning design” based on Connectivism could change the face of learning and collaboration. The OER movement was the trigger for the MOOCs then. a comprehensive change management strategy, 2.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Making Change , September 21, 2010 If you had time to evaluate the research on learning styles, what would you conclude? Reusing eLearning material (OER) from other sources or not, asks UNESCO. concerning OER. Will Mobile Apps Change Training Forever? Work is changing and, to keep pace with it, training is changing too.

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Top 40 eLearning Articles and 5 Hot Topics for Early March

eLearning Learning Posts

Social snake oil - Learning and Working on the Web , March 1, 2010 Knowledge management (KM) was a most promising field until it was hijacked by software vendors who were selling IT systems for six figures. The guidelines that apply for effective learning are really not much different but for the change in context. Good stuff.

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eLearning Conferences 2011

Tony Karrer

Please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, CHECK the specific conference website. link] or [link] December 1, 2010 UNESCO-Commonwealth of Learning Policy Form on Open Educational Resources (OER): Taking OER beyond the OER Community – Policy and Capacity, UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France.

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195 posts about MOOCs

Jay Cross

From Learning Management to Personal Knowledge Management. Acquiring new knowledge and skills – e.g. in webinars, online workshops, MOOCs , and through videos and screencasts, etc. “If Traditional training structures are changing HAROLD JARCHE | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012. MOOCs , OER University, Stanford AI.

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eLearning Conferences 2013

Tony Karrer

As always, please note that events, dates, titles, and locations may change; thus, CHECK the specific conference website. link] December 3-14, 2012 Open Content Licensing for Educators (#OCL4Ed), organized by the OER Foundation, offered online. This year, he has cut down the list slightly to cover "selected events."

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Corporate Training Through MOOCs: Everything You Need to Know

ProProfs

Massive open online courses (MOOCs), which date back to 2008, are a game-changing model for delivering online learning content without any limit on attendance. Most MOOCs are easily customizable since they are built using open educational resources (OERs). This is similar to the 23 million learners registered in 2016.