Category: MOOCs
MOOCs and the Long Tail Moocs and the Long Tail transcript Sources: https://www.wired.com/2004/10/tail/ Brown, J. S., & Adler, R. P. (2008). Minds on fire: open education, the long tail, and Learning 2.0. EDUCAUSE Review, 43(1), pp. 16–32.
MOOCs and OERs were born of an optimism that Brown & Adler explore in ‘Minds of Fire’, and were a pragmatic, ambitious initiative to change the essence of education. Eminent institutions the world over embraced the concept of MOOCs as a transformative exercise in providing free education for those who want it. MOOCs Target Audience […]
I think that the concept of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is a wonderful one. I am a great believer in self-directed learning and, having lived and worked in a developing country for most of my life, I can especially see how life-changing access to education can be. MOOCs have […]
My MOOC experience I joined a FutureLearn MOOC: Teaching Young Learners Online, run by the British Council. There are 37,868 people enrolled on the course and the course is projected to last 3 weeks, with 3 hours of work a week expected. The course is aimed at English Teachers and is run by two ‘Educators’. […]
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