Three Kinds of MOOCs

I thought I would share this article by Lisa M. Lane. It provides some great insight into the types of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Well worth the read if you trying to understand more about these types of courses.

We are so into MOOCs now that it’s too much for me. Gotta apply Ockham’s Razor 2.0 to this stuff.

At the Ed-Media conference, I attended a session by Sarah Schrire of Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel Aviv. In her discussion of Troubleshooting MOOCs, she noted the dificulties in determining her own direction in offering a MOOC in the “Stanford model” MOOCs versus the “connectivism” MOOCs. I found myself breaking it down into three categories instead.

Each type of MOOC has all three elements (networks, tasks and content), but each has a goal that is dominant.

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