Barry Dahl's List: MOOCs and Such

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  Written and Narrated by Dave Cormier
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• A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at large-scale interactive participation and open access via the web.
• MOOCs are a recent development in distance education
• in particular with the 'openness' of many MOOCs being called into question.
• • Yikes!! No one did short lecture videos before Khan? Snappy????
• snappy

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• • Don't worry about the cursing, she was just really fired up. We need more passion in education!
• I was a keynote speaker at this week's Ed-Tech Innovation conference in Alberta, Canada, and the transcript from that talk is below.
• I wanted to give a talk that expressed my deep gratitude to Canadian educators and researchers -- particularly those that created MOOCs -- alongside my concerns about the rewriting of education technology history that diminishes, if not erases altogether, their contributions.

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• • Just an example of alternate communication forums for come MOOCs.

• The release of information about enrollment and completion rates from MOOCs appears to be ad hoc at the moment - that is, official statistics are not published for every course. This data visualisation draws together information about enrollment numbers and completion rates from across online news stories and blogs.
• 50,000 students enrolled is a much more typical MOOC size.
• most MOOCs have completion rates of less than 10%.

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