It's the end of the MOOC as we know it, and I feel...
Mon, Oct 16 2017 11:00
| dissertation, learning, monetization, MOOC, open, PhD, registration, xMOOC
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...ambivalent? I am not sure if ambivalence is the word I am going for because I am getting hints of nostalgia too. Perhaps though I should take a step back, and start from the beginning.This past weekend two things happened:The first thing is that I've completed reading full books as part of my literature review for my dissertation, and I have moved onto academic articles, articles I've
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The vConnecting about Cupcakes and Pokemon!
Mon, Dec 19 2016 01:30
| #vconnecting, Conference, EdTech, open, openEd, youtube
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Another docublog from virtually connecting from a few weeks ago, at OpenEd Berlin with Alec Couros. This one has the innovation of being the first "pop up" virtually connecting session. Enjoy!
EDDE 806 - Post VII - Now what was that about Open Ended Questions???
Fri, Nov 4 2016 16:54
| dissertation, EDDE806, open, participation, PhD, research, ResearchDesign
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Last evening I joined 806 (which seemed to have a very small group of people attending) for their bi-weekly meetup. I think that for this post I will write more about my 2 take-aways from the session in general, rather than recap both presentations.:Take-away #1: Small sample sizes aren't necessarily a problem. Both Tracy and Leslie (presenters of the evening) were taking about their work
EDDE 806 - Post VI.III - The one with Sir John Daniel
Thu, Oct 20 2016 16:44
| assessment, distanceLearning, EDDE806, MOOC, onlineLearning, open, open access, OpenUniversity, PhD
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OK, I am almost 'caught up' with the stuff I missed while I was on vacation (at least as far as 806 goes). I remember receiving an email from Pearl indicating that Sir John Daniel would be presenting. Too bad the internet wasn't that reliable :-/ Oh well, thank goodness for recordings ;-)Sir John Daniel seemed like a pretty interesting person, and very knowledgeable (with over 300
EDDE 806 - Post VI.II - Attack of the Greeks!
Wed, Oct 19 2016 14:00
| EDDE805, EDDE806, MOOC, open, open access, open learning, open scholarship, open teaching, openEd, PhD
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Now that I am back from vacation (was off to Spain, but spent a little time in Istanbul on the way to and from), it's time to catch up a bit on EDDE 806. On the day that I was flying out to begin my vacation Alec Couros was presenting....D'oh! I missed the opportunity to be live in that 806. Not only was Alec on, but there was also a fellow EDDE student who is also Greek. It would
Getting paid in exposure...not!
Tue, May 10 2016 02:30
| authoring, compensation, credit, eBook, editing, exposure, INSDSG, OER, open, open access, open publishing, open scholarship
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One of the items I've wanted to comment on for a while was a blog post posted by friend and colleague Rebecca Hogue. Rebecca writes that she teaches courses (similar, or the same courses as I do at UMB anyway) and these courses would be well served by a decent eBook that is published (and updated) for the course. I wholeheartedly agree! For the past half a decade I've been thinking
No more blatantly openwashing
Fri, Feb 19 2016 04:00
| Business, coursera, Courses, EDDE804, edx, MOOC, open, profit, xMOOC
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I am a little behind the times in this breakneck-speed of development in the world of MOOCs, but some things (namely EDDE 804) have priority over the comings and goings of xMOOC providers. Close to a month ago IHE had reported in their quick takes section that coursera will remove the option of free for some of their courses. Blink, and you may have missed it. I also don't recall
Why Open?
Mon, Sep 28 2015 04:00
| #vconnecting, #whyopen, blogs, education, network, open, social
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The other day I was reading a recent post by Jenny Mackness on questions about being open. Jenny had attended the recent ALT-C conference and was responding to a fellow ALT-C participant's questions on openness. Specifically Viv Rofle ponders:I’m questioning not just openness by my motives behind wanting to contribute to it.What motivates academics and teachers to get involved in areas of
Appropriateness of primary materials? Thoughts on peer review
Tue, Sep 16 2014 17:30
| EDDE806, education, inquiry, MOOC, open, PhD, publishing, research
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It's been a while, but I am finally (sort of) getting back to addressing some feedback that my colleague and I got on an article we are working on with regard to MOOCs. My colleague, Zaharias, thought it would be a great idea to sit down and make an (initial) typology of issues around the development of MOOCs. The abstract was accepted for a special issue of a journal, but our final version was
What Openness means to me
Sun, Aug 10 2014 12:51
| #whyopen, CC, cMOOC, Creative Commons, MOOC, open, open access
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With coursera MOOCs kind of slow this time of year, I decided to try out a MOOC on the subject of "Open" on P2PU. After my first P2PU course, #rhizo14, I thought I would flex the mental muscle a bit and get some P2PU experience. The topic of this week asks us to ponder what Openness means to us as individual participants. To be honest I haven't really sat down to write up what I think of
The cost of Open
Fri, Aug 8 2014 12:39
| #altcred, #rhizo14, #whyopen, cMOOC, education, higherEd, innovation, MOOC, open, open access, PhD
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This past week on the #rhizo14 facebook group my colleague, and co-author, Rebecca Hogue posted a link to this TED talk by Shai Reshef on the Ultra-Low Cost University. This talk really bugged me for a variety of reasons. On the facebook group I wrote that I was angry when I saw this, but it was really more of a "WTF" reaction to the video. More disbelief that the incredible amount of BS†,
You are being watched, every minute of every day... (research ethics)
Thu, Apr 17 2014 09:45
| #edcmooc, #et4online, #rhizo14, ethics, lurker, methodology, open, research, SloanC
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Last week I was somewhere between work, teaching, the NERCOMP symposium I co-facilitated and the annual Sloan Consortium Emerging Tech for Online conference. It was nice to see some familiar MOOC faces on both twitter and on the live stream presentations.I think it was in Jen Ross's presentation (of EDCMOOC fame) that a Rhizo14 participant was quoted anonymously. I really didn't think much
Cheating, Learning, Being - Week 1 summation
Mon, Jan 20 2014 17:46
| #rhizo14, CC, cheating, cMOOC, learning, Management, MBA, MOOC, open, open learning, PhD, rhizomatic, teaching
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The cone of silence ;-)In most cMOOCs I attempt to go back and respond to fellow participant's posts after something has provoked some thoughts. If I am less busy, I tend to blog more, if I am more busy, I tend to leave more comments. I guess this semester I am sort of in-between ;-)In any case, from week 1 of the #rhizo14 MOOC here are some things that have piqued my interest:From Jenny
Distributed Research: or, can we play nice already?
It's the final week of CHFE12 (edfuture.net) and the topic is something that we've beat to death in the past in MOOCs like #ioe12 (which I completed a bit late this September) and #change11; in which we discussed the topic of Open Research about a year ago. I may have also seen this topic crop up in eduMOOC in 2011 and a MOOC on Open Education (not #ioe12) also running this fall.In any case, I feel
Open Assessment and Blended Learning
Wed, Oct 24 2012 19:00
| #blendkit2012, #CFHE12, #ioe12, assessment, open
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The topic of open assessment came up during #blendkit2012 this week, which is quite a fascinating topic. Britt asked if peer review can work in small groups, having seen it in xMOOCs like coursera.I've written about open assessment before, but not specifically about this, I don't think. I have written some quick thoughts on the coursera peer review system which can be summarized even quicker by saying
Open can be lonely
Mon, Sep 17 2012 06:00
| #ioe12, course, lurker, MOOC, MOOCDesign, OER, open, participation
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Well, with my work on #ioe12 done, it's time for a little reflection! For whatever reason, as I may have stated before, I completely missed the announcement for #ioe12, which I guess ran from January to April (or May) 2012. I thought, that since the material is still available on the course site (OpenEducation.us) I would be able to go through and self-study.I did indeed go through and self-study,
Open Policy
This is it! The last topic in #ioe12 - Open Policy! To be honest, there is almost nothing new to see here, if you've been following along with #ioe12 week-by-week. All of the previous 11 topics do connect with one another, and policy issues have come up in the past, we just didn't cover them specifically. The crux of this topic is that anything that is publicly funded should be open.
OpenEd Evangelist - The Reaction
With the course almost over, I decided to undertake the OpenEd Evangelism badge.The requirements for the OpenEd Evangelist badge are:OpenEd Evangelist (Journeyman level, complete for 1 topic to earn the badge)Construct an argument by which you could persuade someone to adopt the topic as an ongoing practice. Your argument should include at least five elements (kinds of evidence), with references.Write
OpenEd Evangelist - The Formulation
Mon, Sep 10 2012 10:04
| #ioe12, advocacy, education, evangelism, OCW, OER, open, open access
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With the course almost over, I decided to undertake the OpenEd Evangelism badge.The requirements for the OpenEd Evangelist badge are:OpenEd Evangelist (Journeyman level, complete for 1 topic to earn the badge)Construct an argument by which you could persuade someone to adopt the topic as an ongoing practice. Your argument should include at least five elements (kinds of evidence), with references.Write
Open Business Models
It's coming down to the wire on #ioe12 with Open Business Models being the topic of the week. This week (unlike previous weeks) didn't have a video to watch in addition to the readings, but it was predominantly readings. The topics for the readings this week were a mix of author's perceptions around the topic of open publishing (and therefore open business models); the effect that open publishing has
Open Assessment - More than just badges
This week on #ioe12 I tackled Open Assessment. Now, I am no newbie to badges. I can't say I've been there "since day 1," but it was pretty darned close! Before going through these materials, which included a a video from the launch of the HASTAC and MacArthur Foundation DML competition, I thought of open assessment as something that dealt with badges for life long learning, and something that
It's Open Teaching Time!
It's Open Teaching time on #ioe12!Having been involved with MOOCs for close to a couple of years now (in the fringes early on, and on the main stage since January 2011), I thought I knew quite a lot about open teaching, but Wiley video presentation surprised me and I learned something new! I had run across Wiley's syllabi on Open Content a while back, (before this course) but I wasn't aware
Open Data (useful, but not useful?)
It's open data week on #ioe12! That being said, I am not sure that there is much to write about ;-) I've heard of Open Data before, on the context of OpenStreetMap and Data.gov. In principle I do agree that data should be open because this does enable people who want to use it in new and creative ways. It also allows for participation in creating better data. For example,
Open Science? Open Research!
Thu, Aug 9 2012 15:49
| #ioe12, collaboration, open
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I must admit that my "science" days, at least as far as biology, chemistry and physics go, are far behind me. Interesting topics, but I prefer thinking (and dabbling) in other topics; thus this week's topic on #ioe12 wasn't that interesting, at least as far as the video and the readings go. The presenter (Michael Nielsen, on the TED video) did say something that I've often suspected about
GameMOOC Weeks 3 & 4
Mon, Aug 6 2012 17:30
| #gamemooc, assessment, Badges, games, gamification, gaming, motivation, open
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We have now entered week 5 (of 6) of GameMOOC, and I completely forgot to add a quick synopsis of take-aways for the past couple of weeks (time flies!) So here is a quick synopsis of notable things in these two weeks.Week 3: GamificationWeek 3 was all about gamification. There were a number of interesting discussion thread this week, and one of them (which also produced an interesting
Open Content
It's Open Content week on Introduction to Open Education with David Wiley (well, it was Open Content week a while back, but I just got to it!) This week, at least compared to the previous two weeks, there was little reading and materials (perhaps this is a good week to work on the Research Badge, eh? ;-) ) and, at least for me, I think I have come across these materials before in Change11 and
Open-Licensing: Expansion Pack 2 (Research)
As part of #ioe12, and in order to get the OpenEd Researcher badge, I need to:Write a blog post proposing a research study by which key assumptions of the topic could be (in)validated. Don’t worry about identifying specific participants, etc. Describe what you believe would be the ideal research setting, participants, data collection, and analysis methodologies.This is sort of like an abbreviated
Open-Licensing :: The Expansion Pack
One of the things that we need to do for #ioe12 (to earn the "researcher" badge) is to provide some additional resources for three topics. This week I will be contributing some resources for the Open Licensing portion of the course.Scholarly ResourcesSawyer, M.S. (2009). Filters, Fair Use and Feedback: User Generated Content Principles and the DMCA. Berkeley Technology Law Journal. 24. pp 363-404.If
Inaugural #ioe12 post - Open Licensing at a glance
Last January David Wiley launched a course on the topic to Introduction to Open Education (how did I miss it?) I can't really say that this course is a MOOC, because it seems like it wasn't "massive", so I just it's just an OOC ;-) In any case, it seemed like a good point to start this course (better late than never!) and slowly take my time at completing the various tasks required to complete the
NMC2012, Day 2 Highlights
Fri, Jun 15 2012 10:28
| #fslt12, Conference, mLearning, NMC, open, technology
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Here's a quick recap of yesterday's NMC12 breakout sessions. I decided to skip the morning plenary- 2 hours of 15 minute presentations is a little too much for me, and I can get those on iTunesU anyway ;-). Yesterday's breakout sessions were mostly interesting (and I had quite a few interesting side conversations!) Exploring a Tablet Application for the seminar ClassroomWith Eric Gordon from: