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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Involving little more than knowledge transmission and perhaps a quiz at the end, the xMOOC is widely seen as replicating old-fashioned lectures and exams. There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Involving little more than knowledge transmission and perhaps a quiz at the end, the xMOOC is widely seen as replicating old-fashioned lectures and exams. There’s no point rehashing the same lectures when the world’s best authorities have already recorded them and offered them to the world as OERs.

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14 Articles on MOOCs

Jay Cross

Typically, students watch short video lectures and complete assignments that are graded either by machines or by other students. Participant support on massive open online courses | Kop | The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning. Open All the Way: MOOCs, OER, and Open Education. What are MOOCs?

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Social Learning : the video - Jane Hart begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlighting - Pick of the Day , September 10, 2010 Thanks to LAB SSJ for sharing this video with me - and thanks for the mention. Why are lectures so improbably still ‘alive’?&#. Learning is, I think, a highly creative activity.

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Future of Higher Education – Digital Textbooks and Courses

MagicBox

With internet to the rescue, a single mother, working people, as well as students with financial troubles, can learn many new things without having to search out different options. Mobile Distribution platforms like MagicBox allow universities to launch their own online distance learning platform.

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Future of Higher Education – Digital Textbooks and Courses

MagicBox

With internet to the rescue, a single mother, working people, as well as students with financial troubles, can learn many new things without having to search out different options. Mobile Distribution platforms like MagicBox TM allow universities to launch their own online distance learning platform.