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What Makes a MOOC a MOOC?

ID Reflections

MOOCs have taken the world of higher ed and corporate learning by the proverbial storm. 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.

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MOOCs In Workplace Learning – Part 2: Designing a MOOC

Learnnovators

Participants learn as much from one another as from the content. “ …there is a shift toward constructive learning, in which learners are given the opportunity to construct their own meaning from the information presented during the online sessions.” Ally (2008). This is the defining theory behind how a MOOC is designed.

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MOOCS IN WORKPLACE LEARNING – PART 2: DESIGNING A MOOC

Learnnovators

Participants learn as much from one another as from the content. “ …there is a shift toward constructive learning, in which learners are given the opportunity to construct their own meaning from the information presented during the online sessions.” This is the defining theory behind how a MOOC is designed.

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learning pulse

Xyleme

In his blog posting Konrad Glogowsk i analyzes key findings of the Living and Learning with New Media (Ito, Horst, Bittani, et al., 2008) report published at the end of 2008.

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The top 10 reasons your mobile learning strategy will fail | Dawn.

Xyleme

Be proprietary: Lots of things can happen in three short years: • In 2008, RIM ruled the mobile OS market with 58% market share. Today, Android, not even in existence until late 2008, has just taken over the number one spot in the U.S. with 31% market share. •

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My Moodle Test

Xyleme

So, open source Moodle does not export to SCORM, the most prevalent e-learning standard? The post is dated March 2008. The only saving grace is that the vendor just happens to be an open source project. But it’s still lock-in. It’s marked as major and it seems to still be open.

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