MOOC Teaches How to Cheat in Online Learning Courses, With Eye to Prevention

There is an interesting free online course.  It is entitled "Understanding Cheating in Online Courses".

This online course will be presented by Bernard Bull who is the assistant vice president for academics at Concordia University Wisconsin.

For the background and review of this course, please go to:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/mooc-teaches-how-to-cheat-in-online-courses-with-eye-to-prevention/43699 


For more details of this course, please go to:

https://www.canvas.net/courses/understanding-cheating-in-online-courses

Open online courses – an avalanche that might just get stopped

Nowadays, MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, are very much in the limelight.  Even the National University of Singapore (NUS) has announced that they will be offering two online courses in 2014.  (See the announcement "NUS to offer free online courses at Coursera".)

However, lately, there has been some concern about the sustainability of such MOOCs.

One such concern is from this news article entitled "Open online courses – an avalanche that might just get stopped".

According to this article, "The bottom line is that there really is no replacement for face-to-face interaction between academics and students. Digital and online methods can enrich those interactions, but it seems unlikely they can replace them in anything other than a greatly impoverished way without the investment of considerable resources. No wonder 72% of those who have taught moocs over the past three years believe students who took their classes had not done sufficient work to deserve credit from their institution."

Asia’s first MOOC draws students from around world

Online Learning: Asia’s first MOOC draws students from around world
by Yojana Sharma, University World News

(Source:  http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/onlinelearning/?p=7636&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OnlineLearningUpdate+%28Online+Learning+Update%29)

"Naubahar Sharif has been teaching science, technology and innovation for some years at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He drew on his lectures to develop a massive open online course, or MOOC, on “Science, Technology and Society in China”, and this month it was launched on the Coursera platform – billed as Asia’s first MOOC. Some 17,000 students registered for the three-week course, which began on 4 April. “I was astonished and overwhelmed. This is far more than the 8,000-10,000 students we were expecting,” said Sharif, an associate professor.

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20130417153545600"

Webinar on the Future Trends in Games for Education and Learning

Webinar on the Future Trends in Games for Education and Learning

Date:  Thursday, 25 April 2013
Time:  2 pm - 3 pm EDT

For Singapore, it will be Friday, 26 April 2013
Time:  2 am - 3 am

Join ADL’s serious games expert, Dr. Peter Smith, for this month’s offering in our monthly webinar series. Peter will share his insights on trends that are shaping the future of game-based training. You’ll also learn the results of recent research about games and learning.

Registration is at this website:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/142893146

(ADL - Advanced Distributed Learning, www.adlnet.gov)

MOOCs: Top 10 Sites for Free Education With Elite Universities

Here is a list of the top 10 sites for free education with elite universities:

1. Udemy Free Courses
2. ITunesU Free Courses
3. Stanford Free Courses  
4. UC Berkeley Free Courses
5. MIT Free Courses
6. Duke Free Courses
7. Harvard Free Courses
8. UCLA Free Courses
9. Yale Free Courses
10. Carnegie Mellon Free Course

 For more details on each of the 10 sites, please go to:

http://www.bdpa-detroit.org/portal/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57:moocs-top-10-sites-for-free-education-with-elite-universities&catid=29:education&Itemid=20 

Webinar on "Future Trends in Games for Education and Training"

The ADL group (www.adlnet.gov) has just announced the "Future Trends in Games for Education and Learning" Webinar on 25 April 2013 from 2 pm to 3 pm (EDT - Eastern Daylight Time).

ADL’s serious games expert, Dr. Peter Smith, will conduct this webinar on the 25 April 2013. Peter will share his insights on trends that are shaping the future of game-based training. You’ll also learn the results of recent research about games and learning. 

Those who are interested are encouraged to register today.

The registration website is at:  https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/14289316.

Regards

Kin Chew

Google Group on Learning Analytics

For those who are interested to know what is happening in the Learning Analytics world, please join this forum:

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/learninganalytics