Three courses, three experiences of education and digital cultures
Three courses, three different formats. The first two courses are about education and digital media. It seems the first one is a MOOC along the connectivist ‘tradition’: distributed on various web...
View ArticleThe Week in Review
My week in review at MixedRealities, combining stuff I found elsewhere and posts I published here on mixedrealities.com or on mixedrealities.tumblr.com. I talk about the CES at Las Vegas, sensors,...
View Articleds106 for digital storytelling
Let’s try another MOOC. A real one, along connectivist principles: ds106 for digital storytelling. This is what it’s about, and also why I like it – because it’s free, it’s adaptable to my needs, and...
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Digital Game Based Learning MOOCs: Join in September!
So nice. We already had the connectivist Massive Open Online Courses – based on learner-centric, distributed activities using a syndication engine to connect the various events. Then came the xMOOCs –...
View ArticleInventing a New University
One of the courses I really enjoyed these last few months was History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education, by professor Cathy N. Davidson (Duke University) on the Coursera platform. The final...
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Understanding Google, embeddable content and MOOCs
What makes mobile so transformative? Why is Google a revolutionary company? These are questions asked and answered in the Coursera course Understanding Media by Understanding Google. Professor Owen R....
View ArticleMOOCs explained (by Stephen Downes)
Stephen Downes, the Canadian MOOC-pioneer (Massive Open Online Courses), delivered a talk in Armenia and as usual he generously shares the recording and the slides. My own MOOC-experiences started in...
View ArticleWhat does the success of Minecraft mean?
‘Could Minecraft be the next great engineering school?’ Scott Smith asks at Quartz. He explains that Minecraft can be considered as a particularly interesting MOOC – and an example of peer2peer...
View ArticleA MOOC about distributed e-learning
I’m learning about the decentralized web these days. I even made a very simple site using The Beaker Browser and files in the dat-format. On that site I keep track of my adventures in decentralized...
View ArticleHow much marketing does a MOOC need?
Stephen Downes’ MOOC about distributed learning, E-Learning 3.0, had a pre-start last week – which I missed, but I watched the recording. It seems Stephen was a bit disappointed – only a few people...
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