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Presentation by Doug Fisher for 'No way back? Exploring the impact, data and potential of MOOCs' conference held on the 6th November 2013 at the University o... 
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Scoop.it!
Greg Ferrie, Director of Information Technology for a school district in British Columbia, discusses how to better prepare students for a rapidly changing world by teaching with open source.
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Scoop.it!
Barely a week has gone by this year without some MOOC-related news. Much like last year, massive open online courses have dominated ed-tech conversations. But if 2012 was, as The New York Times decreed, the year of the MOOC, 2013 might be described as the year of the anti-MOOC as we slid down that Gartner Hype Cycle from the “Peak of Inflated Expectations” and into the “Trough of Disillusionment.” For what it’s worth, Gartner pegged MOOCs at the peak back in July, while the Horizon Report says they’re still on the horizon. Nevertheless the head of edX appeared on the Colbert Report this year, and the word “MOOC” entered the Oxford Online Dictionary – so whether you think those are indications of peak or trough or both or neither, it seems the idea of free online university education has hit the mainstream.
Scoop.it!
At the ALT MOOC SIG gathering in Southampton on 6 November, we were assured by Helena Gillespie, of University of East Anglia, that MOOCing is definitely a verb. I'd like to add a new one to the ev...
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