{"id":509,"date":"2014-09-26T19:41:21","date_gmt":"2014-09-26T19:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/?page_id=509"},"modified":"2014-09-26T19:41:21","modified_gmt":"2014-09-26T19:41:21","slug":"moocs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/moocs\/","title":{"rendered":"MOOCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few of us from NGLCs presentation &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/nextgenlearning.org\/the-community\/archived-events\" target=\"_blank\">MOOCs: open online courses as levers for change in higher education<\/a>&#8221;<br \/>\nby <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"George Siemens\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Siemens\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">George Siemens<\/a> on MOOCs were passing around a few URLs, and I<br \/>\nthought it would be handy to have some of them in one place. This is not<br \/>\nmeant to be exhaustive but please drop me a note in the comments if you<br \/>\nhave a link to add.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"><b>Some MOOC Links <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/moocnewsandreviews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MOOC News &amp; Reviews<\/a><br \/>\nThey have a fairly complete <a href=\"http:\/\/moocnewsandreviews.com\/what-is-a-massive-open-online-course-anyway-attempting-definition\/\" target=\"_blank\">definition of MOOCs<\/a>. A very useful site.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irrodl.org\/index.php\/irrodl\/article\/view\/1455\" target=\"_blank\">MOOCs: A systematic review of the literature 2008-2012<\/a>. from the International Review of Research in Distance and Open Learning, Athabasca University<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldofwebcast.com\/post\/massive-list-of-mooc-resources-lit-and-literati\" target=\"_blank\">Massive List of MOOC Resources, Lit, and Literati<\/a><br \/>\nThis<br \/>\nis a great hub of research for MOOCs. Lets get this into a wiki! If you<br \/>\nreview these links, you still get the impression that MOOCs are<br \/>\ncompletely undefined because it includes discussions of <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Khan Academy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.khanacademy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Khan Academy<\/a><br \/>\nwhich I would argue does not belong on a page about MOOCs. This page is<br \/>\nuseful because it speaks to the fact that MOOCs are still in a defining<br \/>\nprocess.<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Lane&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/three-kinds-of-moocs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Three Kinds of MOOCs<\/a>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Downe&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mooc.ca\/\">MOOC.ca page<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis has links to relevant articles, resources and a call for curators of MOOC lore.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eW3gMGqcZQc\" target=\"_blank\">David Cormier&#8217;s Description of MOOCs\u00a0<\/a><br \/>\nAn enthusiastic vision of MOOCs. I like this simple &#8220;Common Craft&#8221; definition of MOOCs.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/moocguide.wikispaces.com\/0.+Home+Intro+to+MOOC\" target=\"_blank\">The MoocGuide Wiki<\/a>. <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Stephen Downes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Stephen Downes<\/a>&#8216; also has a <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/themoocguide\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Docs version<\/a> of this.<br \/>\nThis<br \/>\nis a useful gude on how to roll your own MOOC. There are 42 members to<br \/>\nthis wiki so it has a good chance of being a living document.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mooc.me\/join-a-mooc.html\" target=\"_blank\">Join a MOOC<\/a>.<br \/>\nThis site has a listing for MOOCs &#8211; something I think we really need.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alternative-educate.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alt-Ed<\/a><br \/>\nThis<br \/>\nsite is &#8220;is devoted to documenting significant initiatives relating to<br \/>\nMassive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), digital badges, and similar<br \/>\nalternative educational projects.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VMfipxhT_Co\" target=\"_blank\">Howard Rheingold&#8217;s Interview with George Siemen&#8217;s on MOOCs<\/a><br \/>\nThis is a good introduction to MOOCs<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.learningsolutionsmag.com\/articles\/886\/massive-open-online-courses-setting-up-starttomooc-part-1\" target=\"_blank\">Inge DeWardes&#8217; 3 part article on setting up a MOOC<\/a><br \/>\nI am using her book (yes, I actually paid for a book) to explore setting up a MOOC here at Humboldt State University. I<br \/>\nam interested in MOOCs from the instructional design perspective. I<br \/>\nthink that there are ways to set MOOCs up so that even the so-called<br \/>\n&#8220;unmotivated&#8221; student or students with little experience with online<br \/>\nlearning can be successful. That will be part of another post.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elearnspace.org\/Articles\/MOOC_Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">The MOOC Model for Digital Practice<\/a><br \/>\nThis was authored by Alexander McAuley, Bonnie Stewart, George Siemens and Dave Cormier.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elearnspace.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/10\/group-work-advice-for-mooc-providers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Groupwork advice for MOOC providers<\/a> by George Siemens.<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Downes: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.downes.ca\/presentation\/320\" target=\"_blank\">Connectivism, Online Learning, and the MOOC<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.icde.org\/How+MOOCs+are+derailing+Open+Education%3A+George+Siemens+ICDE+World+Conference+keynote.b7C_wJLMZ1.ips\" target=\"_blank\">How MOOCs are derailing Open Education<\/a>: George Siemens ICDE World Conference keynote<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l1G4SUblnbo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few of us from NGLCs presentation &#8220;MOOCs: open online courses as levers for change in higher education&#8221; by George Siemens on MOOCs were passing around a few URLs, and I thought it would be handy to have some of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/moocs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-509","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geoffcain.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}