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Author archives: David Kernohan
The year MOOCs got real?
If 2012 was ‘The Year of the MOOC’ then 2013 seems to be the year that the MOOC got real. Announcements from FutureLearn and the EU, and moves into offering academic credit and proctored examinations from Coursera and Udacity take … Read more
MOOCs and Open Courses – what’s the difference?
The term Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) is increasingly being used generically – covering all forms on online learning at scale. But to do this makes a number of unsafe assumptions around intent and pedagogy – simply grouping everything by … Read more
Where there’s MOOC, there’s brass?
Why bother paying inflated fees to attend university? Why pay to spend three years living on a campus, attending seminars and tutorials, running up debts? What if you could get it all for free, online? This is the compelling pitch … Read more
Open Practice: University College Falmouth see the big picture
The temptation within an innovative organisation like JISC is to concentrate on talking about what is new. But a chance conversation on twitter with Alex Di Savoia at University College Falmouth (UCF), holder of one of our early JISC/Higher Education … Read more
Open Education: becoming mainstream?
“We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.” Writing in Simulacra and Simulation in 1981, Jean Baudrillard could scarcely have predicted the way in which the growth of a global network … Read more
OER in the field: institutions solving problems openly
Is your institution ‘open’? Open education resources are becoming an essential component of academic practice. With the uncertainties of a new funding model to deal with, it is becoming harder than ever to convince institutional managers to support nice-to-have projects. … Read more
Online Distance Learning: whose future?
To me, one of the enormous surprises regarding the Browne review of Higher Education funding was the complete absence of any mention of online or blended delivery. Here was a report about the future of the delivery of education at … Read more
