I received an alert from Adam Brimo yesterday about Accredible. On the Accredible Blog, the founders note: Here at Accredible, we’ve been working hard to improve the way that credentials and certificates are generated across MOOCs, university courses also as wider learning by using peer-review and reputational networks to determine and maintain quality. Accredible propose that Read More
I have not written many posts in the past two months. I have been a peripheral participant in many conversations and have admired from afar the insights and wisdom being shared. This week a post from Stephen Downes was a catalyst for this post about c-ness. Stephen linked to Dan Pontefract’s post The Organisation as Read More
Week 5 is the final week of the synchronous phase of the Introduction to Box’Tag Small Open Online Course (SOOC). As of this morning there are 131 participants in the course. There were 25 participants at the start of this cSOOC. It has been interesting to see the course flourish as the participants approach Dunbar’s Read More
Shortly after the #ucsaffire Festival earlier this week, I wrote a post about small open online communities. In the post, I noted: I had a brief conversation with Danny Munnerley about the capital C in SOOC. Danny made the excellent point that C stands for Community rather than Course. I am going to act on Read More
I had an opportunity to present some ideas about a cSOOC at the #ucsaffire Festival. Shortly after presenting, I had a brief conversation with Danny Munnerley about the capital C in SOOC. Danny made the excellent point that C stands for Community rather than Course. I am going to act on this excellent suggestion and Read More
Today is the first day of the small open online course (SOOC), Introduction to Box’Tag. The course is the outcome of a long journey made by Allan Hahn and Paul Perkins. This is their welcome to the course. Adam Brimo from OpenLearning has made it possible for the course to be open and online.
I have spent much of today working with Paul Perkins, Allan Hahn and Daniel Perkins. We have been finalising the content for a new Small Open Online Course (SOOC): An Introduction to Box’Tag. We are using the OpenLearning platform for the course. It is a five-week course. We have a sequence of content to present: Read More
I wrote 260 posts on Clyde Street this year. This has been my fifth year with WordPress. I see this blog as a way of capturing and sharing items linked to learning, teaching, coaching and performing. It is a public portfolio of my interests and one that I access wherever I am in the world. Read More
I read Stephen Downes’ commentary on a Chronicle post on MOOCs. In his post, Stephen observes: For me, what’s revolutionary about MOOCs isn’t size, it’s openness – and openness isn’t just about free content, it’s about ownership over the process. And I don’t see anyone who is bored (yet) of talking about open education. I Read More
My involvement with the small open online course (SOOC) Observing and Analysing Performance in Sport has encouraged me to think a great deal about facilitating open access and supporting disparate learning expectations. I saw the SOOC as a modest approach to the educational issues raised by cMOOCs. There is a growing (daily) discussion of the Read More