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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Despite their pedagogical flaws, however, MOOCs provide unprecedented access to quality content for millions of learners. Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. As the latest edition of Educause Review indicates, universities are fee-for-service businesses.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Despite their pedagogical flaws, however, MOOCs provide unprecedented access to quality content for millions of learners. Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. As the latest edition of Educause Review indicates, universities are fee-for-service businesses.

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14 Articles on MOOCs

Jay Cross

A pedagogy of abundance or a pedagogy to support human beings? He would like to see curricula and pedagogy move away from knowledge and skills to be a “pedagogy for human beings.” A pedagogy of abundance or a pedagogy to support human beings? Open All the Way: MOOCs, OER, and Open Education.

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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] February 3-4, 2011 Conference on Higher Education Pedagogy , Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA.

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195 posts about MOOCs

Jay Cross

In response to the number of learners, the term MOOC (massive open online course) was coined by Dave Cormier and Bryan Alexander. She’s a Berkman Fellow and at the Harvard Business School. Negating the learner in the learning process GEORGE SIEMENS | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2013. MOOCs , OER University, Stanford AI.

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EDGEX 2012: About Disruptive Education

ID Reflections

It’s about handing power back tothe learners and creating the environment for learning to happen. Mostimportantly, it does not have a “fixed body of knowledge” that learners need togo through. Itempowers you—the learner—to architect your own learning. And it will.We

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eLearning Conferences 2013

Tony Karrer

link] December 3-5, 2012 mHealth Summit: Technology, Business, Research and Policy , Gaylord National Resort, Washington, DC, USA. link] December 3-14, 2012 Open Content Licensing for Educators (#OCL4Ed), organized by the OER Foundation, offered online. Degrees – Innovations, Efficiencies and Disruptions to What Ends?