Sometime in June Sandy McAuley, Bonnie Stewart, George Siemens and I decided to apply to SSHRC for funding for researching the place of MOOCs in the digital economy. We did a little work creating videos to allow people to understand what was going on in a MOOC and decide if it was something they might want to do.
We also did a huge write up that you might find interesting
First paragraph – The MOOC Model for Digital Practice responds to the “Building Digital Skills for Tomorrow” section of the consultation paper Improving Canada’s Digital Advantage: Strategies for Sustainable Prosperity by synthesizing the current state of knowledge about Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs). It argues that building and sustaining prosperity through Canada’s current digital strengths depends on a digital ecosystem that embraces both infrastructure and the collaborative social networks enabled by that infrastructure. Prosperity in this context requires a citizenry with the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to turn these factors towards creating wealth. By exploring the relationship of MOOCs to the digital economy in general and their potential roles to prepare citizens for participation in that digital economy in particular, it illustrates one particularly Canadian model of how these needs may be addressed.
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[...] This article is a research project by Dave Comier, George Siemens, et al and deals with Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), which means that all knowledge and information may be done and shared on and online basis. These videos tell you more about MOOCs. Amplify’d from davecormier.com [...]
[...] of courses. There is a lot of conversation about open courses going on. Dave has made some nice videos to illustrate the difference between formal and open courses. I believe those help some people [...]
[...] also die Erklärung von Dave Cormier mit wunderbaren weiteren Erklärungen zu MOOCs auf seiner [...]
[...] A great video here from Dave Cormier explaining Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) – lots there for any online learning design. See also his research project in MOOCS, knowledge and digital economy [...]
[...] I’ve been interested in the potential of running a massive open online course for basic skills for a while now. Most of the open courses that we’ve run so far have been geared towards experienced learners. While there does not seem to be any correlation between ‘web experience’ and success, I feel pretty comfortable in saying that there is a fair amount of correlation between ‘learning experience’ and success. The open courses are less structured than a formal course, and therefore take a bit of getting used to. (don’t know what a mooc is? This post, and particularly the first video should help) [...]
[...] The MOOC model for digital practice http://davecormier.com/edblog/2010/12/20/moocs-knowledge-and-the-digital-economy-a-research-project… [...]
[...] Become familiar with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) which can provide opportunities to gain new skills and information, as well as create a network [...]
[...] role of the teacher in a ‘What is a MOOC video’ that we recorded as part of a research project on MOOCs Sandy Macauley, Bonnie, George and I did in 2010. (video embedded at the end of the post) and i [...]
[...] School Press Cormier, Dave (2010). MOOCs, Knowledge and the Digital Economy – a research project.http://davecormier.com/edblog/2010/12/20/moocs-knowledge-and-the-digital-economy-a-research-project/ accessed 2012-09-16 CHEA (2009). Towards effective practice: discouraging degree mills in higher [...]