Hi Haydn,
As a partner of FutureLearn, the OU is currently in production for the first of its MOOCs via the platform. We were always told that the beta platform launch today was to be just that – a platform launch – and that the first MOOC will go live in October. Perhaps the PR message wasn’t clear in getting this across…
Happy to say that the OU’s content will be based on OER already released into the public domain. All its MOOCs on FutureLearn will be adapted and published as OER when the FutureLearn presentation has finished. Hoorah!
Patrina
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I thought the same Haydn, but then I suppose they will have to allow a few weeks minimum for word to spread and people to sign up….
Peter
On 18 Sep 2013, at 11:33, Haydn Blackey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi David,
On the ‘big pink thing’ I note that none of its courses are ready yet – the first is available on the 14th of October. Slightly less than a launch then.
12 of the 20 will not be available until the New Year. Was the launch to early, or did the project run behind time I wonder.
Cheers,
Haydn
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Subject: A big week for open learning in the UK
HUGE respect is due to the UK in general and Jonathan Worth (and the team at Coventry), and Josie Fraser and her team based around Leicester City Council and DMU) for winning 2 out of the 5 “Reclaim Open” prizes available.
http://open.media.mit.edu/contest.html - details of the contest, which is kind of a big global deal.
http://dmlhub.net/save-date-reclaim-open-learning-symposium - the announcement, and details of the Reclaim Open Symposium, which will be live-streamed on 25-26th September.
http://lccdigilit.our.dmu.ac.uk/2013/09/16/the-award-winning-digilit-leicester-project/ - details of the Digilit project
http://phonar.covmedia.co.uk/ - Phonar, one of the courses offered by the Coventry Open Media Courses team.
Both these examples of the cutting edge of open learning make a point of using and sharing openly licensed materials that can be re-used and re-purposed, and both have a huge focus on fostering communities of learners.
Also in the UK, our government published a very well done (by Stephen Haggard) literature review on the current wave of open/online learning courses “The Maturing of the MOOC”: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/massive-open-online-courses-and-online-distance-learning-review . Though there have been a few examples of literature reviews in this area (with CETIS offering one of the earliest), this is a nicely argued and well presented survey.
Oh, and some big pink thing launched ;-)
Any views on any of the above?
David
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