MOOC
A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user fora that help build a community for students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs). MOOCs are a recent development in distance education.[1]
Although early MOOCs often emphasized open access features, such as connectivism and open licensing of content, structure, and learning goals, to promote the reuse and remixing of resources, some notable newer MOOCs use closed licenses for their course materials, while maintaining free access for students.[2][3][4]
JOURNALISM IN THE AMERICAS BlogHome › Journalism in the Americas Knight Center concludes its first massive open online course with outstanding student reviews
The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas’ ambitious Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), which attracted more than 2,000 students from 109 countries, concluded its first edition with resounding success on Saturday, Dec. 8. The pioneering course – the first of its kind in journalism training – was widely popular and has received outstanding reviews from students. The response to the course, “Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization” with Instructor Alberto Cairo, was so positive that an identical iteration will be offered next month. Click here to register now for the second edition of this six-week MOOC in English, which will start on Jan. 12, 2013 and end on Feb. 23. More information about the course and how to enroll in it can be found here. Nearly 4,000 students have already signed up for the course, which was announced a little more than a week ago.
The MOOC will be taught again by Cairo, an internationally renowned expert in the field who teaches at the University of Miami. Cairo developed an original syllabus to fit these massive classes.
“We are grateful to Alberto Cairo, who has been tireless and an outstanding instructor of the first MOOC in journalism," said Professor Rosental Alves, founder and director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. "And we are also thankful to the 2,000 people who registered for this course, especially those who complete all the quizzes, projects and other requirements. This experiment of the Knight Center has been a success thanks to them and our team, who has worked very hard on it.”
The first edition of the course began on Oct. 28 and concluded last weekend. The course had more than 2,000 students from countries like the U.S., Spain, Brazil, United Kingdom, Mexico, Australia, India, Netherlands, Ukraine, Egypt, Russia and South Africa...........
L’Agence universitaire de la francophonie se lance dans les MOOCs http://orientation.blog.lemonde.fr/ (ajouté le 25/02/2014)
A Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user fora that help build a community for students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs). MOOCs are a recent development in distance education.[1]
Although early MOOCs often emphasized open access features, such as connectivism and open licensing of content, structure, and learning goals, to promote the reuse and remixing of resources, some notable newer MOOCs use closed licenses for their course materials, while maintaining free access for students.[2][3][4]
- Jump up to: a b Lewin, Tamar (20 February 2013). "Universities Abroad Join Partnerships on the Web". New York Times. Retrieved 6 March 2013.
- Jump up to: a b Wiley, David. "The MOOC Misnomer". July 2012
- Jump up ^ Cheverie, Joan. "MOOCs an Intellectual Property: Ownership and Use Rights". Retrieved 18 April 2013.
- Jump up ^ David F Carr (20 August 2013). "Udacity hedges on open licensing for MOOCs". Information Week. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
JOURNALISM IN THE AMERICAS BlogHome › Journalism in the Americas Knight Center concludes its first massive open online course with outstanding student reviews
The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas’ ambitious Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), which attracted more than 2,000 students from 109 countries, concluded its first edition with resounding success on Saturday, Dec. 8. The pioneering course – the first of its kind in journalism training – was widely popular and has received outstanding reviews from students. The response to the course, “Introduction to Infographics and Data Visualization” with Instructor Alberto Cairo, was so positive that an identical iteration will be offered next month. Click here to register now for the second edition of this six-week MOOC in English, which will start on Jan. 12, 2013 and end on Feb. 23. More information about the course and how to enroll in it can be found here. Nearly 4,000 students have already signed up for the course, which was announced a little more than a week ago.
The MOOC will be taught again by Cairo, an internationally renowned expert in the field who teaches at the University of Miami. Cairo developed an original syllabus to fit these massive classes.
“We are grateful to Alberto Cairo, who has been tireless and an outstanding instructor of the first MOOC in journalism," said Professor Rosental Alves, founder and director of the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas. "And we are also thankful to the 2,000 people who registered for this course, especially those who complete all the quizzes, projects and other requirements. This experiment of the Knight Center has been a success thanks to them and our team, who has worked very hard on it.”
The first edition of the course began on Oct. 28 and concluded last weekend. The course had more than 2,000 students from countries like the U.S., Spain, Brazil, United Kingdom, Mexico, Australia, India, Netherlands, Ukraine, Egypt, Russia and South Africa...........
L’Agence universitaire de la francophonie se lance dans les MOOCs http://orientation.blog.lemonde.fr/ (ajouté le 25/02/2014)