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Mass education and motivation

I’ve joined Prof. Curt Bonk’s MOOC on Instructional Ideas and Technology Tools for Online Success. This is a free 5-week course hosted on Blackboard’s  CourseSites, and it currently has around 3000 students enrolled – although it should be noted that around 500 turned up last night for the first live webinar. MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Course, although there are disagreements about the word ‘massive’ – for example Stanford’s open course on Artifical Intelligence had 135,000 participants … but there is also debate about whether that was actually a MOOC as well.

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