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10 Secrets of Online Course Design from Award-Winning MOOCs

WBT Systems

An online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry , aka ModPo, is one of the 50 most popular MOOCs of all time. Typically, a MOOC features a course syllabus, in this case, a ten-week lesson plan with assigned reading (poems), instructor-created video content, discussion forum, peer-reviewed writing assignments, and quizzes.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.7.16

Reid All About it

This list is part of their Data Science Career Guide , a six-part series recommending the best online courses and MOOCs for people entering the data science industry. What online courses (including your own) and MOOCs would you recommend to people entering (or thinking about entering) your industry or profession? Tue 10/11 at 3:30 p.m.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.21.17

Reid All About it

LMS provider WBT Systems writes about instructional design innovations that associations could borrow from “ModPo” and a few other award-winning MOOCs. 9 Social Media Metrics to Monitor. A few years ago I took an excellent online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry. Presenter: Jenny Saucerman, instructional designer.

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Napster, New Yorker, Freeloaders & 4 Other Articles for Association Executives

SCD Group

By Clay Shirky Using what MP3 and Napster did to the music industry as an example, Shirky talks about the upcoming evolution/revolution within education in the form of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). What The New Yorker Magazine Can Teach You About Content Marketing that Works. It provides 11 Tenets of Content Marketing.

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17 Education And Learning Trends That Will Affect Your Organization This Year!

Velvet Chainsaw

Too often in the past, organizations have used courses as a way to push out content instead of really trying to provide a learning opportunity for their customers. More focus on participation, interactivity, gamification and innovative formats. MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses. Social Learning. Less Tell And PPT-Only.

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The Big 3 (Costs, changing demographics and mobile) impacting association meetings

SCD Group

Earlier in the week, I read a similar Clay Shirky post on Napster, Udacity, and the Academy He talks about the creative destruction of MP3 and the likelihood that MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) are likely to radically change higher education. Customized content. Easy to check progress.

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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth Kanter

The specific technologies highlighted in the reports are place along a continuum of near-term, mid-term, and far-term field adoption: One year or less to adoption: Cloud Computing (K-12), Mobile Learning (K-12), MOOC (Higher Ed), Tablet Computing (Higher Ed). The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report.

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