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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. The philosophy behind a MOOC is very different.

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Top 10 eLearning Predictions for 2010

Tony Karrer

Also, before you read these, you might want to go back and look at predictions in the past and how well I did on those predictions: Ten Predictions for eLearning 2008 , 12 eLearning Predictions for 2009. Just visit the OER Commons and Open Courseware Consortium. I even have been known to contradict myself from year to year.

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Great places, awesome people

Learning with e's

I first visited Lisbon in 2008 when I attended the EDEN Annual Conference and picked up a Fellowship award. I also had the distinct pleasure of meeting up with prolific Twitter activist Paulo Simoes for the first time, and also spent some time with charismatic OER guru Wayne Mackintosh. Cologne, Germany. Continues tomorrow.

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Learning Styles and Visualization

Mark Oehlert

Ive been tinkering with Many Eyes over the last couple of weeks as a way of exploring potential visual navigation tools/interfaces for Open University courses and qualifications, and OpenLearn OERs/course units: [link] and search for "many eyes". November 2008. October 2008. September 2008. August 2008. April 2008.

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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] January 6-9, 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. link] As of Nov.

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195 posts about MOOCs

Jay Cross

And this is what George Siemens, Rita Kop, Dave Cormier and I have done over a series of six or so Massive Open Online Courses ( MOOCs ) since 2008. She’s a Berkman Fellow and at the Harvard Business School. MOOCs , OER University, Stanford AI. Business+MOOCs. Business+ MOOCs. MORE >> 57 Tweets.

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EDGEX 2012: About Disruptive Education

ID Reflections

The Connectivismand Connective Knowledge MOOC (massive open online course) that Downes, Siemens and Cormier started in 2008 exemplifiesnetworked learning, and the transformative impact of technology on learning. And it will.We have experiments like the Holein the Wall by Sugata Mitra to prove us right.

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