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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. 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. The pedagogy of MOOCs will be enriched. The former is the subject of such disdain.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

Sure, the pedagogy may not be perfect, but the alternative is much worse. 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. The pedagogy of MOOCs will be enriched. The former is the subject of such disdain.

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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. Mostimportantly, it does not have a “fixed body of knowledge” that learners need togo through. And it will.We

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Productive Disruption: Kadenze’s Silver Lining in the Cloud

Kadenze

A violent and ugly disruption, especially for those disciplines Kadenze cares about – the creative arts, design and creative technologies – and their studio pedagogies. . Kadenze has offered free access to OER content for its educational partners to support their teaching during 2020 due to COVID-19 disruptions.

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14 Articles on MOOCs

Jay Cross

Perhaps most importantly, however, a MOOC builds on the active engagement of several hundred to several thousand “students” who self-organize their participation according to learning goals, prior knowledge and skills, and common interests. A pedagogy of abundance or a pedagogy to support human beings? great article collection.

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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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eLearning Conferences 2013

Tony Karrer

link] December 3-14, 2012 Open Content Licensing for Educators (#OCL4Ed), organized by the OER Foundation, offered online. link] December 10-11, 2012 International Workshop on Knowledge Discovery Using Cloud and Distributed Computing Platforms , 3 rd , Brussels, Belgium. link] February 6-8, 2013 Open Research , Auckland, New Zealand.