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Next-Generation MOOCs with Open-Source PaaS

April 3, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

MOOCs are popular, plentiful, and low cost, thanks to cloud computing. A current challenge with computer science –based MOOCs, however, is that computer science students need increased capabili…

International Perspective: The MOOC and Campus-Based Learning

April 4, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

MOOCs are primarily associated with the "M" in their acronym-"massive." For many of us, however, the MOOC is an opportunity to enhance the campus-based learning environment. The…

Digging into MOOC Mania: One Investor's Key Research Questions and Approach

April 4, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

MOOCs have captured the attention of millions of learners, higher education stakeholders, and the public media. Is it all simply hype or might there be something to be learned or gained from the MO…

Assessing the Efficacy of Third-Party MOOCs in Hybrid Instruction

April 4, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

The California state legislation's recent move to mandate that public universities award credit for new forms of online instruction such as MOOCs raises questions about how to measure what stu…

Multiple Lessons Learned from Implementing MOOC Environments at San Jose State University

April 4, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

Provost Ellen Junn will briefly describe how SJSU partnered with two MOOC providers (edX and Udacity) to offer four courses for college credit. She'll summarize a number of significant implica…

Backgrounds and Behaviors of MOOC Participants and Implications for Faculty

April 4, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

In spring 2012, the first MIT/edX MOOC, "Circuits and Electronics" (6.002x), was open to students around the world. A team of researchers from MIT and Harvard has been analyzing data gene…

Using an Open-Source Platform to Meet Online Learning Goals: An Introduction to Class2Go

April 3, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

As universities dive deeper into online learning and MOOCs, what role can a platform play in meeting online learning goals? At Stanford, we discovered that developing and using the Class2Go open-so…

What's In It for Us? The Benefits to Campus Courses of Running a MOOC

April 3, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

The blogosphere likes to talk about what benefits MOOCs bring to the student, but what about to the institution offering them? Specifically, to the "traditional online" or face-to-face co…

MOOCs for Credit: Current State of the Art

April 3, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

As enrollments in MOOCs expanded dramatically in the summer of 2012, students who completed these courses began asking how they might earn academic credit that could be applied toward a degree. As …

Designing and Implementing MOOCs That Maximize Student Learning

April 3, 2013 | A session at the ELI Online Spring Focus Session: Learning and the MOOC

Institutions face new challenges in designing and implementing MOOCs while keeping the focus on student learning. The scale and scope of MOOCs raise the stakes for colleges and universities and off…