Emma is the European Platform that has provides the Moocs for free with interesting videos and documents related to the topic. Lots of ideas and a great overview about knowledge and the future of education. The Mooc offered short courses from September to November this year and I was free to register and follow the tasks online simply by choosing what to see and when to do it. That's the reason why I like Moocs: I can learn online while I am at home or at school in my free time and sometimes the quality of the Moocs can be great.
I have just finished the session MOOCS with Distinction and I have watched some interesting videos and learnt about experiences which have been shared by many thinkers and educators.
I have particularly appreciated some parts of the Moocs as I have come across the ideas they have presented and can help us learn about the future in education.
Stephen Downes - The emerging new Consciousness in digital culture
Stephen Downes is well-known for his theories about Connectivist learning, learning networks and how and why they emerged.He is an international speaker and has published many books online dealing with this new way of learning and working online : http://www.downes.ca/files/books/Connective_Knowledge-19May2012.pdf
He is interested in Open Educational Resouces and Moocs :
http://www.downes.ca/post/7804 ( about open education )
MOOC – Diversity and Community in Online Learning from Stephen Downes
He publishes his daily newsletter http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm
Global MOOCs for non-native English speaking 16 – 17 year olds: increasing digital and lifelong learning skills
This section of the Mooc was really interesting as it presented a brief overview of a Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) project that uses Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) to enhance language, digital and lifelong learning skills for upper secondary school students (16 – 17 year olds).
We were also provided with the slides:
He publishes his daily newsletter http://www.downes.ca/news/OLDaily.htm
Global MOOCs for non-native English speaking 16 – 17 year olds: increasing digital and lifelong learning skills
The Teacher involved in the project :Inge Ignatia de Waard was born in 1967 in Antwerp, Belgium. She is currently researching mobile learning and MOOCs at the Open University of the United Kingdom. She has a background in IT and pedagogy (studied at Athabasca University, Canada) and has been an international public speaker, addressing audiences across continents on the subject of online, MOOC and mobile learning.
This section of the Mooc was really interesting as it presented a brief overview of a Content Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) project that uses Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) to enhance language, digital and lifelong learning skills for upper secondary school students (16 – 17 year olds).
We were also provided with the slides:
Hack the MOOC: alternative MOOC use from Inge de Waard
Alessandro Bogliolo is serving as e-skills for jobs ambassador, a Europe-wide campaign to raise awareness of the opportunities that digital skills offer for employment and employability.
He has been working on coding and providing courses for teachers online as coding and literacy should be mastered by everyone in today's world.
Internet is the tool, it provides us with a network of educators who are working online and they are sharing ideas, providing tips and helping us develop new approaches to learning. The learner is the centre of the new learning process as more choices are offered for learning and choosing to learn how,when and what can now be a reality.
Moocs can offer plenty of courses to people who would have never had access to learning online in the past.
How will they develop next? What kind of quality? Teachers and educators are still experimenting but the new way of learning has already begun.
David Weinberger - The networking of knowledge
David Weinberger, Ph.D., writes about the effect of the Internet on ideas. He is a senior researcher at the Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and was co-director of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, and a journalism fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center. His most recent book, "Too Big to Know," looks at the networking of knowledge and expertise.Alessandro Bogliolo - Algorithms are forever
Alessandro Bogliolo is serving as e-skills for jobs ambassador, a Europe-wide campaign to raise awareness of the opportunities that digital skills offer for employment and employability.
He has been working on coding and providing courses for teachers online as coding and literacy should be mastered by everyone in today's world.
Internet is the tool, it provides us with a network of educators who are working online and they are sharing ideas, providing tips and helping us develop new approaches to learning. The learner is the centre of the new learning process as more choices are offered for learning and choosing to learn how,when and what can now be a reality.
Moocs can offer plenty of courses to people who would have never had access to learning online in the past.
How will they develop next? What kind of quality? Teachers and educators are still experimenting but the new way of learning has already begun.
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