I’m working on a couple of MOOCs in health sciences. To get my bearings on this new subject area and find out what other MOOCs in the discipline are teaching, I’ve been looking at the content for a handful of healthcare MOOCs. I’ll probably audit the courses rather than working through all of the assessments […]
I’m currently working on a MOOC project that is five weeks long. We had a kick-off meeting at the beginning of the process, to get the Subject Matter Experts thinking about what content they’d want to include in the course. We’ve also scheduled a workshop for each of the five weeks, to help us drill-down […]
I’m a little bit obsessed with MOOCs and OERs and other online learning mediums. But if I had to pick one teeny, tiny thing that bugs me about online education, it’s the proliferation of talking head videos. The go-to approach for educational video seems to be recording a lecture to camera. I’ve never been a fan […]
Recently, I’ve been enrolling in MOOCs and doing some research into how they are doing. If you’re not familiar with them, Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are courses developed by Universities and made available for free, online. There are several MOOC providers — FutureLearn, Coursera and EdX are two of the main ones, where you […]
