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[toc] Why on earth am I writing about MOOCs again? I'm not sure why I have this instinct to defend MOOCs. I am generally the last person to be instinctively bullish on purely technological innovations in education even if I tend to be one of the first people to try them out. Confusing MOOC shortcomings…
Read more →[caption id="" align="alignright" width="214"] Title page to Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education (Photo credit: Wikipedia)[/caption] Warning: This post ended up being a lot more "negative" and critical than it started out as. I am still quite enjoying the EdStartUp course. Entrepreneurship and #EdStartup 101 A new MOOC is going on at the moment aimed at…
Read more →education online (Photo credit: Sean MacEntee) Note on the title: I was pretty miffed when I started writing this post. And the title was the first thing that came to my mind. But as I was writing, much of the initial anger dissipated but I still like the title. So I…
Read more →This is my introduction to the other participants on the #EdStartUp MOOC . My main interest in taking the course is to explore ways of squaring up the demands of a sustainable business or other funding model with openness. My key question is how can we run open courses with open educational resources and using…
Read more →Mind map Inspired by a Tweet and related to my post on What is and what is not a MOOC , I decided to make a little concept map to put a few things in context of each other. Download and remix policy: Do it! You can download the map file from the XMind site…
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