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What Is a MOOC?
A massive open online course (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to any person who wants to take a course, with no limit on attendance. This ELI 7 Things You Should Know About MOOCs (November 2011) provides additional key facts about MOOCs.
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- What Campus Leaders Need to Know About MOOCs,” EDUCAUSE, December 2012. This brief discusses how MOOCs work, their value proposition, issues to consider, and who the key players are in this arena.
- Laptop U: Has the Future of College Moved Online? The New Yorker, May 20th, 2013. Nathan Heller explores various MOOCs and their possible future in higher education.
- The MOOC Model: Challenging Traditional Education, EDUCAUSE Review Online (January/February 2013), A turning point will occur in the higher education model when a MOOC-based program of study leads to a degree from an accredited institution — a trend that has already begun to develop.
- General copyright issues for Coursera/MOOC courses, Penn Libraries created a copyright resource page for schools using the MOOC Coursera platform. This page provides an overview of special copyright considerations when using Coursera.
- Online Courses Look for a Business Model, Wall Street Journal, January 2013. MOOC providers, Udacity, Coursera and edX, seek to generate revenue while they continue to experiment with open platforms.
- Massive Open Online Courses as Drivers for Change, CNI Fall Meeting, December 2012. Speaker Lynne O'Brien discusses Duke University's partnership with Coursera, and their experiments with massive open online courses (MOOCs)
- MOOCs: The Coming Revolution?, EDUCAUSE 2012 Annual Conference. This November 2012 session informs viewers about Coursera and the impact it is having on online education and altering pedagogy, provides insights into how and why one university joined that partnership.
- The Year of the MOOC, New York Times, November 2, 2012. MOOCs have been around in one form or another for a few years as collaborative tech oriented learning events, but this is the year everyone wants in.
- Massive Open Online Courses: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries, ARL, October 22, 2012. This issue brief addresses policy questions regarding MOOCs, open access, fair use, and research libraries.
- What You Need to Know About MOOC's,” Chronicle of Higher Education. CHE’s collection of MOOC-related articles.
- Challenge and Change,” EDUCAUSE Review (September/October 2012). Author George Mehaffy discusses various aspects of innovative disruption facing higher education including MOOCs.
- A True History of the MOOC,” September 26, 2012. In this webinar panel presentation delivered to Future of Education through Blackboard Collaborate, host Steve Hargadon discusses the "true history" of the MOOC. It’s also available in mp3.
- The MOOC Guide. This resource offers an online history of the development of the MOOC as well as a description of its major elements.
- MOOC.CA. This MOOC-centric newsletter, authored by Stephen Downes and George Siemens, offers news and information on MOOC providers.
- Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) Constituent Group. This EDUCAUSE constituent group takes a broad look at MOOCs as a paradigm of learning communities and open education.
- Reviews for Open Online Courses is a Yelp like review system from CourseTalk for students to share their experiences with MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses).
MOOCs of Interest
- Learning Analytics and Knowledge, Society for Learning Analytics Research, Feb. 11 to April 7, 2013.
- Current/Future State of Higher Education 2012. Eleven organizations, including EDUCAUSE, have come together to provide a course that will evaluate the change pressures that face universities and help universities prepare for the future state of higher education.
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EDUCAUSE Library Items for Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
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Learning and the Massive Open Online Course: A Report on the ELI Focus Session
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May 21, 2013
On April 3 and 4, 2013, the ELI teaching and learning community gathered for an online focus session on Learning and the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). This report is a synthesis of the k…
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The Horizon Report in Action: Emerging Technologies Today and Tomorrow
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March 27, 2013
Wondering what’s new in mobiles, electronic books, learning analytics , and other emerging technology areas? Join Malcolm Brown and Veronica Diaz of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative as t…
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Digging into MOOC Mania: One Investor's Key Research Questions and Approach
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April 4, 2013
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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…
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Multiple Lessons Learned from Implementing MOOC Environments at San Jose State University
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April 4, 2013
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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…
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Backgrounds and Behaviors of MOOC Participants and Implications for Faculty
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April 4, 2013
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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…
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MOOCs for Credit: Current State of the Art
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April 3, 2013
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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 …
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Designing and Implementing MOOCs That Maximize Student Learning
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April 3, 2013
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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…
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Thinking about Accreditation in a Rapidly Changing World
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April 1, 2013
Online learning has provided a platform for rethinking delivery models, yet much of accreditation is not designed to account for these new approaches. Paul J. LeBlanc is Presiden…
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The Beginning of Something Big
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March 7, 2013
Thanks to MOOCs, online learning has gained worldwide attention from academic leaders, trustees, legislators, and the media. The power of technology enables massive scale and allows learning and …
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Beyond the MOOC Hype
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February 11, 2013
For almost two decades, the world of online education has been evolving. Entering 2013, we are presented with a confusing array of educational delivery models . The purpose of this webinar is …
