By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Disrupting and democratising higher education provision or entrenching academic elitism: towards a model of MOOCs adoption at African universities
Patient Rambe, Mamello Moeti, Educational Technology Research and Development, 2017/01/13

MOOCs have the potential to support education in Africa. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Cours en ligne ouverts et massifs : État des lieux et adoption au Canada français
Robert Gregoire, Réseau d’enseignement francophone à distance du Canada (REFAD), 2017/01/13

This is a substantial report (182 page PDF) on the state of the art in MOOCs and their adoption in French Canada. Please note that the report is written in French. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. The State of the MOOC: What Associations Should Know
Ernie Smith, Associations Now, 2017/01/18

This is a routine report on MOOCs with a focus on associations, but note the zinge rat the end. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. MOOC enrollment drops at HarvardX and MITx after free certifications disappear
Devin Coldewey, TechCrunch, 2017/01/16
This article gleans the relevant datum from the recent study of Harvard and MIT MOOCs. This year saw enrollments drop at each "to about 540,000 at HarvardX and 670,000 at MIT." This is against a background in MOOCs generally where enrollment (as reported by Class Central) doubled over last year. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Community Tracking in a cMOOC and Nomadic Learner Behaviour Identification on a Connectivist Rhizomatic Learning Network
Aras Bozkurt, Sarah Honeychurch, Autumm Caines, Maha Bali, Apostolos Koutropoulos, Dave Cormier, Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, 2017/01/16
The difference between the research we see in a connectivist MOOC (cMOOC) and those offered by Coursea, Udacity, etc. (xMOOC) is striking, and nowhere better exemplified by this detailed diagram we see in this paper. More...