Can schools make MOOCs work?
By Luis Ruuska. MOOCs still have a long way to go before becoming viable instruction alternatives. A decade ago, an idea like massive open online courses would have seemed impossible. Yet in recent years, developers from the Ivy League and even Google have jumped on the MOOC bandwagon, exponentially increasing MOOC’s prevalence in higher education. In a world where we consume so much of our media digitally and do our social networking in the palm of our hands, MOOC seems like the next natural step in the digital age. But MOOC also seems like the idealistic answer to quality universal higher education. More...
Big Dog, Little Dog
By Donald Clark. Thoughts on Instructional Design and performance by Big Dog & Little Dog.
A to Z of Learning
aLearning (Alpha Learning) - To begin to understand, but not fully comprehend (has not groked or gLearned)
bLearning - (Blended Learning) - A mixture of media, such as cLearning and eLearning (brick and click)
cLearning - (Classroom Learning) - Learning in a classroom or formal setting
dLearning - (distance Learning) - Learning from an electronic device, such as eLearning, mLearning, or pLearning. May also include other media that is sento the learner, such as mail
eLearning - (Electronic Learning) - Learning from the Internet (part of dLearning)
fLearning - (Formal Learning) - The learning goals are determined by instructional designers (learners may provide input). More...
George Siemens on the role of the Teacher in Connectivism Based MOOCs
By Maria Guillily. An exciting new world of education is developing where all the minds in the classroom will share the responsibility and joy of discovering new information and sharing it: indeed teaching their classmates! More...
Birmingham-Southern prepares to enter the MOOC world
By Shannon Delcambre. Birmingham-Southern College will soon launch a new program for online courses. According to a news release, BSC will make its first appearance May 12, 2014, in the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) with an 8-week course, called “The History of Terrorism”. The MOOC is free and open to anyone with internet access. More...
Designing a Dual Layer cMOOC/xMOOC
By Matt Crosslin. So the task is to design a MOOC that leverages the best of both worlds – xMOOCs and cMOOCs. George Siemens put together a team to look at this possibility for the next MOOC he is designing, and had a meeting called “Design Jam.” Since he works at my University now, I was able to beg/plead/bribe my way on the team. The biggest thing I learned from the Design Jam?
George Siemens and Dave Cormier bicker a lot. And it is very entertaining. More...
Multiple pathways: Blending xMOOCs & cMOOCs
By George Siemens. I’m running a MOOC on edX in fall on Data Analytics & Learning (registration will be open soon). As part of this process, we organized a designjam recently bringing together 20 or so folks to think through the design process. I’ll post separately on this event. For now, I just want to highlight one aspect of the meeting: the difference between xMOOCs & cMOOCs and possible ways to blend them.
The interest in making xMOOCs more like cMOOCs (a few silly folks have called it MOOC 2.0 – haha) seems to be growing. In particular, MOOC providers are adding “social” in the same way that vitamins are added to food, “Now, with beta-carotene”! After much discussion at our designjam, I’ve concluded that cMOOCs and xMOOCs are incompatible. They cannot be blended. Pedagogically and philosophically, they are too different. It’s like trying to make a cat a dog. Entertaining, perhaps, but a fruitless venture. More...
MOOCs - which way now?
By Katy Jordan. The Association for Learning Technology (ALT) special interest group on MOOCs is holding a free one-day conference in London on June 27th, entitled 'MOOCs - which way now?'. It will focus on the following themes:
- Growing your own MOOC - models for providers outside consortia.
- Incorporating others' MOOCs within an existing course ('wrapping').
- Widening and sustaining participation.
- Designing and planning for 'massive'.
- Assessmen and accreditation.
The call for proposals closes on May 19th - further information can be found on the ALT website. More...
Charte de bonnes pratiques pour les OPCA et les entreprises
« Cette Charte a une dimension évolutive, par l’enrichissement continu des bonnes pratiques identifiées au sein des réseaux. Les OPCA et les OPACIF s’engagent à faire vivre la présente Charte en participant à l’harmonisation des démarches, la promotion et la diffusion des bonnes pratiques identifiées dans leurs réseaux.
Le FPSPP organise des travaux collectifs nécessaires à la mutualisation, la diffusion, la valorisation des bonnes pratiques et crée les conditions de la coopération entre les réseaux OPCA et OPACIF…. »
Sur le site du FPSPP : Charte des bonnes pratiques pour les OPCA et les entreprises
Développement et encadrement des stages et amélioriation du statut des stagiaires
Proposition de loi tendant au développement, à l'encadrement des stages et à l'amélioration du statut des stagiaires
Un amendement modifie la gratification mensuelle minimale que doivent toucher les stagiaires dès le premier jour pour tout stage de plus de deux mois.
Elle passe de 12,5 % du plafond de la sécurité sociale, soit 436,05 euros, à 15 % de ce plafond, soit 523,26 euros.
En outre, un amendement abaisse l'obligation de gratification des stages dans l'enseignement supérieur à tous ceux d'entre eux de plus d'un mois, tout en maintenant la durée minimale de deux mois pour les périodes de formation en milieu professionnel de l'enseignement secondaire.
Les cinq raisons du regain d’intérêt pour l’université
Près d'un jeune de Terminale sur deux souhaite - pour le moment - se diriger vers un établissement universitaire, affirme un premier bilan de la procédure APB. Décryptage des principaux éléments pour lesquels les lycéens ont tendance à se diriger massivement vers l'université.
L'université semble retrouver de son attrait et de son attractivité auprès des lycéens. Les premiers signes doivent encore être confirmés, mais ils commencent à se multiplier et à s'accumuler. Nouvelle preuve en est avec le premier bilan de la plateforme APB (Admission Post Bac), qui vient d'être réalisé - quelque peu prématurément, la procédure étant loin d'être terminée - par le ministère de l'Education nationale, de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche. Suite...
