In his session at Educon 2.5 , Jon Becker led a crowd sourcing activity to create a High School MOOC. Thomas Friedman discussed MOOC's in his New Your Times Op-Ed today , though Becker thought he didn't really get it. @ pomdr please consider ignoring Friedman. As usual, he's misinformed and off base here. — Jonathan Becker (@jonbecker) January 27, 2013 Here's the video of the session. My Notes from the session: Becker- Asking the question "What is a MOOC?" is the wrong question. There are many things that are "MOOCish," and all the letters are negotiable! Types of MOOC's xMOOC's -Corporate sponsored, Coursera etc Packaged with stuffed content. Proprietary. cMOOC's -Connective, Community MOOC's. Creation is part of it. I have seen others talk about 3 types of MOOC's . Examples DS106 - Started face to face, on Digital Storytelling. 1000's take the course for no credit online to be...
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