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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has partnered with Fujitsu Laboratories of America, Inc. to create a new platform for finding open educational resources. 
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"If we can get past the magic of “massive” and “free,” we begin to see Coursera/edX-type MOOCs for what they really are — online courses, no different from the ones your college or university is offering right now. Open up registration to anyone anywhere, don’t charge a fee, and you’re MOOCing."
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Open Educational Resources(OER) can build the creative capacity of institutions and educators if the process of developing educational materials is seen as being just as important as – and maybe mo...
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Have you heard of a #MOOC? Some say the online #courses will change #education, but what about #IP? via @uniworldnews http://t.co/ZxxEu8hBzc
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Thoughts? RT @ALA_TechSource Librarians and the Era of the MOOC http://t.co/ADUtNjSrcq #moocs #oer #library
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Here's a thought experiment, if there were no students fees and higher education were free, what would that do to MOOCs? I mean, obviously it'll never happen... oh, wait, Germany just abolished student fees.
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Part of the reason that I'm thinking these thoughts prior to heading into DrupalCon is that I've long held the notion that open source communities have been engaging in effective peer-supported learning, even while many for-profit companies and academic communities have been struggling to distill the process of peer-supported learning into something resembling a replicable product.
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Instructors need to accommodate their students’ need for high-quality content. Free ebooks will round out a MOOC student’s online learning experience. (@MOOCNewsReviews great to see this up!
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Professors across the U.S. are criticizing a rush to offer free online college courses, challenging a movement designed to spread knowledge and reduce higher-education costs.
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“Presentation slides for the OER and MOOC workshop facilitated at Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM) on the 25th March, 2013.” (Embracing OER & MOOCs to TRANSFORM EDUCATION...? - Presentation slides for the OER and MOOC workshop...
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Udacity Review - I choose the Udacity MOOC Intro to Statistics for the opportunity to learn from a world class teacher, which otherwise would have been impossible in my country.
Dr. Susan Bainbridge's insight:
Very important insight. Many of us dream of the MOOC concept bringing knowledge to those who would not normally have access to such information. . . but will it work?
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The idea that massive open online courses (MOOCs) provide a less valid learning experience than face-to-face courses is a furphy. Here are some reasons why the critics are wrong.
Abi James's curator insight,
June 3, 2013 9:33 AM
"Overall, the evidence is that there is no reason to believe that MOOCs provide any less a valid learning experience than face-to-face courses." But are students prepared with the skills and tools needed to studt from online resources? The jump from classroom teaching to lectures is difficult enough but most students have no experience or strategies for learning from online courses without human interaction to guide them. 
elearning at eCampus ULg's curator insight,
June 17, 2013 3:29 AM
Toujours à prendre avec le recul nécessaire mais un point de vue intéressant et des liens conceptuels concrets
António Maneira's curator insight,
June 18, 2013 5:26 AM
That's it! There is no strong apparent reason for MOOCs to be less valid then face-to-face courses. It is an e-learning model for great numbers that in most cases attracts lots of people which is great to researchers as it increase significance of quantitative research studies.
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Óscar Becerra has just written The One Laptop Per Child Correlation With Massive Open Online Courses where he compares the OLPC project with MOOC initiatives.
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In a recent survey of several hundred educators, only 13 percent of schools today offer MOOCs, but 43 percent plan to offer them by 2016.
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RT @efquel: #MOOC QUALITY Project.12 blog post by @gsiemens @cgreen @gconole @oldaily @uehlers http://t.co/OO96pJc6pr #oer @EQAR_he @eqaf
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First came free online courses. Now come — with a few conditions — free online textbooks.Coursera, a provider of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, from dozens of universities, announced...
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Jim Groom briefly but insightfully runs the numbers on the Georgia Tech / Udacity deal: Apart from all sorts of misgivings about Georgia Tech's MOOCish Master's program in Computer Science, I want ...
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A napster moment; the end of boring lectures; a tipping point. These are all common responses to the emergence of MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses.
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It's clear that the landscape of the open education movement is changing everyday. What we now know as MOOCs (massive open online courses) will soon be superseded by a new MOOC-massively online open ...
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Interesting: MIT & Fujitsu developed a platform called Guided Learning Pathways' to help students navigate Open Course Ware. If it works it would be another important step in the facilitation of personalized & adaptive online learning