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10 Secrets of Online Course Design from Award-Winning MOOCs

WBT Systems

If you want to see engaging, transformative online course design in action, add a little poetry to your life. An online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry , aka ModPo, is one of the 50 most popular MOOCs of all time. But Filreis and his merry band of teaching assistants (TAs) turbo-charged the usual MOOC formula.

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MOOCs: A myth for the masses? Not so much

Aaron Wolowiec

An infographic by Online-PhD-Programs.org summarizing MOOCs. Massive Open Online Courses – or MOOCs – seem to be all the rage. MOOCs are online classes that are available to anyone with a computer and/or Internet access. Some MOOCs are free, but others aren’t. And why not, when learning is just a click way?

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MOOC as Promotion: Brewers Association Launches Beer Course

Associations Now

In an effort to draw attention to beer’s culinary role, the Brewers Association announced a five-day course on how to best pair the popular beverage with food. The first four days of the course are open to the public. a beer expert—helped create the course with Adam Dulye, a culinary consultant with the association.

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Wednesday Buzz: Use MOOCs to Build Community

Associations Now

Encourage your members to hang out with other members when they dive into your online courses. Does your association provide massive open online courses (MOOCs) or virtual continuing education courses to members? Taking an online class can be solitary experience. Taking an online class can be solitary experience.

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The State of the MOOC: What Associations Should Know

Associations Now

Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, have been around long enough that some strong takeaways are starting to show themselves. Read on to see what Harvard and MIT have learned about MOOCs—and what your association should keep in mind. million people that accessed content in a course, just 16.6 The median age was 29.)

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Life goes on…and so does learning

Aaron Wolowiec

In fact, I took my first graduate class as a lifelong learner because it was so much cheaper. So now I’m wondering, where do Massive Open Online Courses fit into this equation? If you know of an expert on MOOCs, or if your association uses MOOCs, please contact me. Some are undergrads and some are grad students.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

It’s a great attractor for learning experiences at conferences and multi-day live courses. If you are just building your first set of online courses and implementing your first (traditional) LMS, it’s probably not the time to develop a 12-tiered system of subscription packages. All the MOOCs out there. Plateau of Productivity.