Connectivism MOOC Starts October 8

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barrydahl
– October 1, 2012Posted in: Community News, Feature, Higher Ed

CFHE12 - Connectiveism MOOC

The next cMOOC (roughly translated as a Connectivism-style Massive Open Online Course) starts on Monday, October 8. George Siemens, Stephen Downes, Dave Cormier, and several others are the faculty/facilitators/hosts for this 6-week educational experience.


Course title: Current/Future State of Higher Education (hashtag #cfhe12)

Here’s a nice video put together by Dave Cormier about CFHE12 (Reload page if video doesn’t appear.)

Weekly Topics:

  1. Change pressures: What is influencing higher education? (Oct 8-14)
  2. Net pedagogies: New models of teaching and learning (Oct 15-21)
  3. Entrepreneurship and commercial activity in education (Oct 22-28)
  4. Big data and Analytics (Oct 29-Nov 4)
  5. Leadership in Education (Nov 4-11)
  6. Distributed Research: new models of inquiry (Nov 12- 18)
They will be using Desire2Learn as the virtual learning environment to help organize the course. This will be the first significant attempt to use D2L as an open platform for a MOOC. In the true Connectivisim style, much of the course will occur on various blogs, in social media, and other personal web spaces in addition to the D2L course shell.
Register here if you want to be an active participant in CFHE12.  Click to register for CFHE12

If this is all Greek to you, here’s a primer about MOOC madness.

The Wikipedia MOOC page – which isn’t too bad (as of 9/30/12, YMMV), even though they say it “appears to be written like an advertisement.”

The MOOC Guide: notes for a book being written about MOOCs by George Siemens, Bonnie Stewart, and Dave Cormier.

17 links in a Chronicle guide:  MOOC Madness

George Siemens on ELEARNSPACE, More on Open Online Courses (with slides and recorded webinar)

George Siemens again with MOOCs are Really a Platform

Stephen Downes in Half an Hour: The Course in MOOC

Lisa Lane disavows the horrible acronym in “You Say MOOC, We Don’t (Anymore)”

Phil Hill on e-Literate, Four Barriers That MOOCs Must Overcome To Build a Sustainable Model

Also from Phil Hill, MOOCs: Two Different Approaches to Scale, Access, and Experimentation

A non-blog, scholarly paper (21 pages, plus references!) from Sir John Daniel, Making Sense of MOOCs  (rebuttal by Downes)

Audrey Watters for IHE, The Language of MOOCs

Edward O’Neill, How to Build MOOCs that Fail

From IHE, written by Paul Fain: Gates, MOOCs and Remediation

Here’s a graphic by Mark Smithers from his post “The Development of Connectivism and MOOCs”

CC-BY Flickr photo by masmithers

George Siemens writes What is the Unique Idea in Connectivism?

Stephen Downes writes What Connectivism Is

Massive List of MOOC Resources, Lit and Literati

Original cow photo is CC Flickr photo by wwarby


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