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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

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. It’s how the teacher uses that content to support learning that will make the difference. Online cheating will mushroom. The pedagogy of MOOCs will be enriched.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

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. It’s how the teacher uses that content to support learning that will make the difference. Online cheating will mushroom. The pedagogy of MOOCs will be enriched.

OER 224
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What if they threw a party and none of us came?

Learning with e's

What if the publishers all went over to solely online publishing? Some publishers, particularly those running open access journals, are reversing the business model - and offering all contents free to any reader online, whilst the authors pay to have their work published. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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14 Articles on MOOCs

Jay Cross

Online Learning – The Chronicle of Higher Education. An inside look at the latest phenomenon in online learning. Massive Open Online Courses Views & Research – The Conversation. MOOCs are classes that are taught online to large numbers of students, with minimal involvement by professors.

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eLearning Conferences 2011

Tony Karrer

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. link] December 9-10, 2010 What’s Hot, What’s Not in e-Learning , eLearning Guild Online Seminar.

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Top 74 eLearning Posts from September 2010

eLearning Learning Posts

Lectures, bloody lectures - Learning and Working on the Web , September 2, 2010 Tweet Yesterday I attended Lectures: Dead and Alive , The 2010 Tucker Talk , delivered by Dr. Bruce Robertson, Professor of Classics, who asked, “In an age of instant online videos, why do people still travel thousands of miles to hear a public presentation?

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Future of Higher Education – Digital Textbooks and Courses

MagicBox

Starting from providing online content services, new learning platforms, along with software for learning management & assessment, technology has uplifted the learning environment for universities. Distant learning makes up a large chunk of course offerings at most community colleges and universities.