Cheating in a MOOC – an Oxymoron
This weekend I read an article in Forbes that suggested students cheating while taking a MOOC is a serious roadblock to providers of the new MOOCs, specifically Udacity, Cousera and soon to be...
View ArticleCoursera: Promise and Potential in Unexpected Places
I’ve held back from giving an evaluation Coursera preferring to wait until I completed an entire course, which I did recently, Introduction to Sociology, which closed on July 20th. This course had...
View ArticleHow to Create Excellent Courses with Open Education Resources
What are Open Education Resources (OER)? Where does one find open resources and under what conditions can educators use them? If you don’t have an answer to one or more of these questions, you are not...
View ArticleOne Big Happy Family of OPEN – How to Get Faculty to Embrace Open Educational...
Getting faculty to embrace open education resources takes more than directing them to a good search platform. In this post I suggest a two-pronged strategy to help faculty embrace ‘openness’. I joined...
View Article‘The List’ for Educators: How to Find Almost Anything in Less than Three Clicks
‘The List’ that provides educational resources at the finger tips—no searching, in less than three clicks—find instructive, rich content for instructional or personal use. Something fresh, a collection...
View ArticleNext-Generation of Open Education Resources (OER) on User-Friendly,...
Open Education Resources (OER) have been around for some time yet few educators make use of the thousands of free resources available online, mainly due to barriers that include searchability and...
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