Should Otago Polytechnic be spooked by MOOCs?

What are open online courses?

• Early Open Online Courses
• The "first" MOOC Connectivism and Connective Knowledge, George Siemens and Stephen Downes, 2008
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, Stanford, October 2011. (Sebastian Thrun & Peter Norvig)

MOOC hybrids

• cMOOCs
• xMOOCs (Commercial)
  • Coursera (see also terms of reference)
  • Udacity
  • Futurelearn
• edX (Research) established by MIT and Harvard
• mOOCs OER university consortium

Pedagogy and technology

• Open Content Licensing for Educators
• Scenario Planning for Educators (University of Canterbury and OER Foundation)

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