Take one traditional online learning course...... add
robo-marking hyped as artificial intelligence... peer marking
(poorly implemented)... re-invent the VLE wheel (again!)... stir in
some education is broken hype... $$$ venture capital... And youve
just been MOOCed MOOC the taste of a new generation
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The Year Of The MOOC Higher Education: the MOOC is our mp3 Two
decades to take out the 'trash', Mooc- style The Big Idea That Can
Revolutionize Higher Education: 'MOOC How MOOCs will wipe thousands
off the value of YOUR family home Yes! Its the MOOCopalypse!
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MOOCs Ate My Hamster FutureLearn has the potential to put the
UK at the heart of the technology for learning agenda by
revolutionising conventional models of formal education. a
transformational new partnership in online education. Higher
education is broken with increasingly higher costs for both
students and our society at large. "Higher education is ripe for
innovation: it is too expensive and limited to a few" Education is
broken, somebody should do something
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Where theres MOOC, theres brass $16m Kleiner Perkins Caufield
& Byres $15m from Andreesen Horowitz & others $2m from
Google $5m from OSullivan Foundation $10m FirstMark Capital &
others
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Image: M. Branson Smith
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MOOC found under council carpark cMOOCs - Connectivist -
Canadian - Collaborative - Crazy? I have no idea what is going
on!
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Traces of MOOC found in lasagne xMOOCs - EXtensive - American
(X) - EXtremely Didactic - Organised EXessively Yay capitalism! Wow
personalisation makes me feel so special Wait... Im doing this for
free??
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diyU RLO commons education is broken large scale replacement of
current structures. start-ups disruptive techno-deterministic
automation standardisation new tools, platforms open web freedom
licences, sharing. using existing tools.
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diyu rlo commons The open education movement xMOOCs social
sharing iTunesU marketing open practice PLE learning analytics
rethinking HE repositories cMOOCs
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And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you No one
told you when to run You missed the starting gun... Dark Side of
the MOOC
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Image: David Kernohan
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I quit three weeks into the course. The videos were
distracting. I felt disconnected from the professor, as if the face
I saw on-screen was a detached third party serving up neatly
packaged bits of information for massive consumption. It felt
sterile. Rachelle DeJong, MOOC student 155,000 students registered
for the course when it opened in February, but only 23,000 earned a
single point on the first problem set, and 9,300 passed the
midterm. When the course ended, 8,200 students took the final. Just
over 7,000 earned a passing grade and the option of receiving an
informal certificate from edX. Data from first EdX course
http://blogs.reuters.com/muniland/2012/09/15/a-new-higher-
education-online-business-model-open-and-non-profit/
http://www.mindingthecampus.com/forum/2012/09/student_voicesw
hy_i_dropped_ou.html
http://www.katyjordan.com/MOOCproject.html
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Report on survey responses from 2,350 students who enrolled in
a Massive Online Open Class (MOOC) titled Computational Investing,
Part I via coursera.org in Fall 2012. The responses represent 41%
of the students who completed the course and 2.6% of those who
initially enrolled but did not complete it.
http://augmentedtrader.wordpress.com/2013/01/27
/mooc-student-demographics/
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Image: Giulia Forsythe
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Coursera has begun to move into paid learning certification,
and has partnered with ProctorU to provide paid proctored
examinations which may lead to university credit. Income streams
are limited to the purchase of additional premium services by
students. But its primary assets are a bespoke teaching platform
and the range of user data generated by its students (the latter
may be monetised by selling to future employers, though this is not
yet a proven market) UK HE offers a huge range of courses at
undergraduate, postgraduate, pre-university and professional
development levels both on and offline, along with a range of free
courses aimed at community outreach. It has a substantial estate,
which is used to generate income via event hosting and management,
and is also active in research and development winning contracts
from private and government sources. Primary income is from
tuition, and numbers and investment remain steady despite recent
funding method changes.
