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I am looking forward to participating in Connected Courses over the next several months.Image Source"Connected Courses is a collaborative network of faculty in higher education developing online, open courses that embody the principles of connecte...

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I must confess some confusion about what a connected course is. I know that some online courses (like the first MOOC) were actually conceived as connected courses. But what are the things being connected in connected courses? Does this refer to the type of learning emphasized (i.e. connectivist learning)? Does this refer to the creation […]

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What I Know (or think I know) about MOOCs The idea of a mooc is really appealing: participate in a course on your own time, at no cost and with people all over the world. You might do it just to learn something new or for the fun of it. It sounds so simple and rewarding but I have learned that completing a mooc, when you don’t need the grade or certification for anything, is a real challenge! I am certainly not the first person to start an online course and not complete it: according to Max Nisen, the MOOC dropout rate stands at 90%. I have signed up for a few in the past and I don’t think that I have completed one in it’s entirety (see previous blog post – oops, nothing happened there). This past summer I did manage to complete a 1-hour Udemy course about launching a wordpress website and then to migrate my blog from wordpress.com to wordpress.org – something I didn’t manage in two rounds of ds106. But this really just involved watching a series of online videos, searching for how to migrate from one wordpress platform to the other and then playing around in wordpress.com It was more of a task than anything else. My Fall MOOC Plan This fall I hope to participate in 3 online “courses”.  However, rather than feel guilty about not completing all tasks I am planning to cut myself some slack this time: I think that the peer pressure associated with signing up […]

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The semester is on and off we begin not only with the classes I am currently offering –in Spanish, Computing Fundamentals (inf103.com) and Data Structures (netedu.info/inf201), but I am also registering to take a course, a connectedcourse to be exact. … Continue reading →

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I am happy to participate in this fall’s Connected Courses cMOOC. As a recent member of FemTechNet, I am an advocate and believer in opening my courses to the world. This fall, I will be teaching an introductory course for … Continue reading →
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