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MOOCs Observatory – Origins
What Was the First MOOC? by Cathy Davidson, September 27, 2013 Did you know that the first MOOC-like massive, open, online course was offered by HASTAC in 2006-2007? Of course, many insist that it was[…]
New Research Grants to Study Student Experiences & Systemic Impact of MOOCs
The MOOC Research Initiative, financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will award grants of $10,000 to $25,000 to researchers seeking to explore issues such as student experiences in MOOCs and the free courses’[…]
Contest “The MOOC Production Fellowship”
For faculty who might be inspired by opportunities offered by MOOCs but do not have resources to try their ideas out: Essen and Berlin, Germany, 11 March 2013 – Stifterverband (www.stifterverband.info), one of Germany’s leading[…]
MERLOT-JOLT Special Issue: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
MERLOT has approved the Call for Papers for the JOLT (Journal of Online Learning and Teaching) special issue on MOOCs. Call for Papers – Special Issue Proposal Submission Deadline: November 15, 2012 Full Paper Submission[…]
Harvard – MIT partnership ($60M to create a Platform for Free Online Courses)
After reading this news, we remembered a certain quote by George Siemens: “[…] Education seems to be at the threshold of a very dramatic change” Article by Nick DeSantis published in The Chronicle of[…]
VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning (IV): Demostration Session
VI International Seminar of the UNESCO Chair in e-Learning Notes from demostration session the VI UOC UNESCO Chair International Seminar on Open Social Learning, Barcelona, 30 November – 1 December, 2009 George Siemens and Kathleen[…]
VI International Seminar on Open Social Learning (I): Socializing Open Learning
VI International Seminar of the UOC UNESCO Chair in e-Learning Connectivism: Socializing Open Learning. George Siemens, Associate Director of the Learning Technologies Center. Manitoba University. Canada. Notes from the Open Social Learning, organized by UOC[…]
UNESCO Chair International Seminar 2009
‘Open Social Learning’ The VI International Seminar organized by the UOC-UNESCO Chair was held in Barcelona, Spain, on November 30th and December 1st 2009. To mark the end of the 2009 as the European Year[…]
Open Social Learning at the VI International Seminar
Open Social Learning will be the focus of the UOC UNESCO chair in e-Learning VI International Seminar, that will take place in Barcelona on November 30 and December 1 2009.This year, as part of[…]