Before any good discussion begins, everyone needs to be on the same page, using the same meanings for the same terms, or at least understand the differences. In the lead-up to the start of mobi.mooc and #potcert (Program for Online Teaching Certificate), spreading thoughts on differences between elearning and mlearning. Clark Quinn’s Learnlets showed up…
Month: August 2012
Another MOOC signed up
This MOOC, like Change11, covers a whole academic year. It covers many topics realted to managing and teaching in an online environment. I hope to use it to shape my courses as I move more of the activities and content online from the classroom. Since I teach English as a Foreign Language (EFL), along with…
Can you MOOCify a course?
I’ve been wondering about this since the Change11 MOOC. You have your xMOOCs at places like MITx and Coursera, and Udacity, and your cMOOCc like Change11, PLENK2010, and CCK08. But adapting a course into a MOOC is, I think only possible if you can bend some of the parameters of a MOOC. DS106 is the…
What is a mooc?
We are asked, in MOOCMOOC, two questions, the one above, and “What does it do, and what does it not do.” 1000 words. One picture. Sounds a bit like DS106. That’s 3 questions by my count. But no mind. This assignment reminds me of a TV show (guilty pleasure) about a lady with cancer (I…
MOOCMOOC Hiccup Number 1
Part of a MOOC is figuring out how it works. Our second day assignment was to collaborate with others on a document defining a MOOC. I go to the collaboration page and get this . No list of current collaborations. The Current Collaborations section is empty (for me). Not sure how…