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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

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. 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.

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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

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. 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.

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Earn Money Selling Your Courses Online

Academy of Mine

Your sales front-end will be search engine optimized to help you gain maximum exposure to your course by optimizing for both general search terms as well as “long tail” searches for your niche. We want to help your online course reach explosive enrollment growth levels.

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knowledge and Learning In The News - 8/26/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Fireside Chat: The Long Tail - Signal vs. Noise. The theory of the Long Tail is that our culture and economy is increasingly shifting away from a focus on a relatively small number of "hits" at the head of the demand curve and toward a huge number of niches in the tail. Not all books are created equal.

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7 best practices to create corporate training video content

Disprz

If you are going for in-depth explanation about a case study topic, instead of going for a 45-min lecture session, break the video content into 9 or 10 different segments. #4 If you are giving a sample walkthrough of an already understood concept, keep it somewhere between 2.5 4 Ensure your Videos work well even without sound. as an audience.

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eLearning Startup Opportunities

Tony Karrer

I've talked before about a world in which the Best Lecture is available to us anywhere. If we are going to force students to sit through lectures, shouldn't they be the absolute best lecture? Tell me how you are going to compete with Physics Lectures by Professor Lewin? Of course, should it even be a lecture?