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Massive List of MOOC Resources, Lit and Literati

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by Erica St. Angel

on June 25, 2012
UPDATE 08.14.2012: This week marks the launch of MOOC MOOC, and given the insane amount of content that's already been produced, we're going to hold off on updating this ongoing list o' links. You can join in here, learn more here or follow along here.

We've been following the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) movement for a couple years now because we and our clients are all engaged in online learning at some level, be it totally online, flipped or hybrid, or just lecture capture for on-demand replay.

This spring, we had the opportunity to talk to many of our 1000 higher education clients at our Mediasite User Conference and other events like Sloan-C and UBTech. Through those conversations, we learned a ton about how they saw MOOCs within the online learning ecosystem, and we decided to share those findings in our June webinar, "A Practical Response to the MOOC Movement."

I gathered up everything we'd been reading, sharing, tweeting and watching into what feels like a Massive List of MOOC-ness. Even at this size it is by no means exhaustive of what else is out there. We hope to keep it up as the dialog, research and funding continues to evolve. And do take a sec to add your own favorites to the list.

A few godfathers and godmothers of thinking on MOOCs, connectivism, open education resources
Definitions and history of MOOCs in the media
- Massive open online course | Wikipedia
- 7 Things You Should Know About MOOCs | EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative [.pdf]
- The tangled Web of Online Learning….explained | Debbie Morrison, Online Learning Insights blog | June 16, 2012
- The Language of MOOCs | Audrey Watters, Inside Higher Ed Hack [Higher] Education blog | June 7, 2012
- What a MOOC Does - #Change11 | Stephen Downes, Half an Hour blog | March 1, 2012
- MOOC 2011: The Massive Open Online Course in Theory and in Practice | Stephen Downes, Slideshare | September 10, 2011
- Comparing MOOCs, MIT’s OpenCourseWare, and Stanford’s Massive AI Course | Michael Atkisson Ways of Knowing blog | August 28, 2011
- MIT OpenCourseWare Turns 10: What’s Next for Open Education? | Audrey Watters, ReadWriteWeb | February 23, 2011
- What is a MOOC [video] | Dave Cormier, YouTube | December 8, 2010
- Auditing Classes at M.I.T., on the Web and Free | Carey Goldberg, New York Times | April 4, 2001
Debate and discussion about MOOCs, open education and online learning
- Parody Critiques Popular Khan Academy Videos | Angela Chen, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | June 28, 2012
- A Conversation With Bill Gates About the Future of Higher Education: On the Meaning of MOOCs | Jeffrey R. Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education | June 25, 2012
- Conflicted: Faculty and Online Education, 2012 | Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed | June 21, 2012
- Heard: U.VA Board Ousts President Sullivan For Her Resistance To Online Courses | Wired Academic | June 21, 2012
- Can Free Online Courses Transform the Higher Education Industry? | Knowledge@Wharton | June 20, 2012
- “Why stay in college? Why go to night school? Gonna be different this time?” | Jonathan Rees, More or Less Bunk blog | June 19, 2012
- Some top colleges offer free online classes; what does that mean for the UW? | Todd Finkelmeyer, The Capital Times | June 7, 2012
- Synchronous Web Teaching Magic | Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Education Technology and Learning blog | June 7, 2012
- Higher Education's Online Revolution | John Chubb and Terry Moe, Wall Street Journal | May 30, 2012
- MOOC Mythbuster – What MOOCs are and what they aren’t | Debbie Morrison, Online Learning Insights blog | May 29, 2012
- MOOCs Inc | Martin Weller, The Ed Techie blog | May 28, 2012
- Are Universities Scared of the Online Learning Movement? | Peter Klein, The Christian Science Monitor | May 26, 2012
- MITx, Khan Academy, and Online Education Are No Substitute for In-School Learning | Andrew Hanson, PolicyMic | May 25, 2012
- The MOOC Halftime Report | Curtis J. Bonk, The EvoLLLution | May 24, 2012
- Playing the Role of MOOC Skeptic: 7 Concerns | Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed Technology and Learning blog | May 21, 2012
- MOOCs: The Prestige Factor | Keith Hampson, Alston Road Group | May 20, 2012
- As Elite Colleges Invite the World Online, Questions Remain on Their Business Plans | Jeff Selingo, The Chronicle of Higher Education Next blog | May 19, 2012
- Will MOOCs Promote Superstar Teaching Over Superstar Research At Princeton And Other Ivy Universities? | Paul Glader, Wired Academic | May 18, 2012
- Come the Revolution | Thomas Friedman, New York Times Opinion Pages | May 15, 2012
- The Big Idea That Can Revolutionize Higher Education: 'MOOC' | Laura McKenna, The Atlantic | May 11, 2012
- College Dot Com | David Brooks and Gail Collins, New York Times Opinionator | May 9, 2012
- How MOOCs Could Make Diverse Recruitment Actions Affirmative | Paul Glader, Wired Academic | May 8, 2012
- There's a whole lot of MOOC'en going on! (or: "The Multimedia MOOC") | Curtis J. Bonk, TravelinEdMan blog | May 7, 2012
- David Brooks Confuses MOOCs with Online Learning | Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Education Technology and Learning blog | May 6, 2012
- The Campus Tsunami | David Brooks, New York Times Opinion Pages | May 3, 2012
- The Problem With EdX | Bonnie Stewart, Inside Higher Ed University of Venus blog | May 2, 2012
- How Should Your University Respond to edX? | Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed Technology and Learning blog | May 2, 2012
- Open-Access Courses: How They Compare | The Digital Campus, The Chronicle of Higher Education | April 29, 2012
- 4 Reasons Why the Bonk MOOC is So Interesting | Joshua Kim, Inside Higher Ed Technology and Learning blog | April 25, 2012
- Running a MOOC | Steve Wheeler, Learning with 'e's blog | April 18, 2012
- Education as Platform: the MOOC experience and what we can do to make it better | Stephen Downes Half an Hour blog | March 23, 2012
- Treating Higher Ed's 'Cost Disease' With Supersize Online Courses | Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education | February 26, 2012
- Open CourseWare 2.0: Stanford’s open courses raise questions about true value of elite education | Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed | December 13, 2011
- The University of Wherever | Bill Keller, New York Times Opinion | October 2, 2011
- Modeling Learning Support in MOOCs in Netlogo | David Wiley, OpenContent.org | June 24, 2011
- Clarifying My Feeling Toward MOOCs | David Wiley, OpenContent.org | June 22, 2011
- Do open online courses have a role in educational reform? | George Siemens, Connectivism blog | June 22, 2011
- Online, Bigger Classes May Be Better Classes | Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education | August 29, 2010
Research on MOOCs
- Research publications on Massive Open Online Courses and Personal Learning Environments | Rita Kop, Personal Blog
Instructor experience in MOOCs
- In This Online University [Peer 2 Peer U.], Students Do the Teaching as Well as the Learning | Katherine Mangan, The Chronicle of Higher Education | June 18, 2012
- 4 Professors Discuss Teaching Free Online Courses for Thousands of Students [Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, Blackboard] | Jeffrey Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education | June 11, 2012
- How Open Education is Changing the Texture of Content | Frank Catalano, MindShift, KQED | May 31, 2012
- MOOCs and the Professoriate | Kaustuv Basu, Inside Higher Ed | May 23, 2012
- Coursera and MOOCs: From A Teacher’s Perspective | Dr. Chuck Severance, posted by Adam Marshall, Adam’s WebLearn Blog, Oxford University Computing Services | May 23, 2012
- Massive Open Online Courses: Taking Distance Learning To A New Level | Curtis J. Bonk, The EvoLLLution | May 4, 2012
- Massive Open Online Courses: How “The Social” Alters the Relationship Between Learners and Facilitators | Bonnie Stewart, Inside Higher Ed University of Venus blog | April 30, 2012
- 'Supersizing' the College Classroom: How One Instructor Teaches 2,670 Students | Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education | April 29, 2012
- Open, Online and Connectivist: Lessons from our First MOOC | Yeager and Hurley-Dasgupta, SUNY Empire State College, Slideshare | April 28, 2012
- Facilitating a Massive Open Online Course | Stephen Downes, Slideshare | February 23, 2012
Student experience in MOOCs
- Coursera's CS101: Completed | Audrey Watters, Inside Higher Ed Hack [Higher] Education blog | May 28, 2012
- Thirsting for Knowledge? Try a MOOC | Amy Southerland, The Atlantic, May 24, 2012
- A Whole New U: one man’s quest to see if Udacity, one of a cluster of new, free online universities, can make programmers of us all | Kevin Charles Redmon, Pacific Standard, May 23, 2012
- 5 Things I've Learned From MOOCs About How I Learn | Audrey Watters, Inside Higher Ed Hack [Higher] Education blog | May 9, 2012
- Diary Of A Lifelong Learner Enrolling In Her First Massive Online Open Course | Marianne Dombroski, The EvoLLLution | May 1, 2012
- Leaving an open online class | Lisa Lane, Lisa’s (Online) Teaching Blog | April 30, 2012
- ‘Free-Range Learners’: Study Opens Window Into How Students Hunt for Educational Content Online | Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | April 25, 2012
Related writing on Open Education Resources
- Open Education Sites Offer Free Content for All | Tina Barseghian, MindShift, KQED | October 27, 2011
- 10 Open Education Resources You May Not Know About (But Should) | Audrey Watters, Mind/Shift, KQED | May 5, 2011
MOOC launches, backing, funding, startups and stops
- Gates Foundation Gives $9-Million in Grants to Support ‘Breakthrough’ Education Models [MITx] | Jeffrey Young, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | June 19, 2012
- How Will MOOCs Make Money? | Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed | June 11, 2012
- New York Times to Suspend Online-Education Program | Angela Chen, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | June 11, 2012
- How Would You Like A Graduate Degree For $100? [Udacity’s Sebastian Thrun] | George Anders, Forbes | June 5, 2012
- MOOCs and Machines | Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed | May 10, 2012
- Explosion in Free Online Classes May Change Course of Higher Education [audio] | All Things Considered, NPR | May 9, 2012
- Massive Courses, Massive Data: Harvard joins MIT in platform to offer massive online courses | Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed | May 3, 2012
- EdX: A Platform for More MOOCs and an Opportunity for More Research about Teaching and Learning Online | Audrey Watters, Inside Higher Ed Hack [Higher] Education blog | May 2, 2012
- Harvard and MIT Put $60-Million Into New Platform for Free Online Courses | Nick DeSantis, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | May 2, 2012
- Harvard and M.I.T. Team Up to Offer Free Online Courses | Tamar Lewin, New York Times Education | May 2, 2012
- Math MOOC – Coming this fall. Let’s Teach the World. | Keith Devlin, Devlin’s Angle blog | May 1, 2012
- New TED-Ed Site Turns YouTube Videos Into ‘Flipped’ Lessons | Nick DeSantis, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | April 25, 2012
- Online Education Venture Lures Cash Infusion and Deals With 5 Top Universities | John Markoff, New York Times | April 18, 2012
- Elite Universities’ Online Play | Steve Kolowich, Inside Higher Ed | April 18, 2012
- Coursera, the Other Stanford MOOC Startup, Officially Launches with More Poetry Classes, Fewer Robo-Graders | Audrey Watters, Hack Education | April 18, 2012
- Online-Education Start-Up [Coursera] Teams With Top-Ranked Universities to Offer Free Courses | Nick DeSantis, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | April 18, 2012
- Instruction for Masses Knocks Down Campus Walls | Tamar Lewin, New York Times Education | March 4, 2012
- MIT to launch MITx learning platform, offer free teaching materials in 2012 | Zach Honig, engadget | December 20, 2011
- Virtual and Artificial, but 58,000 Want Course | John Markoff, New York Times | August 15, 2011
- U. of Illinois at Springfield Offers New ‘Massive Open Online Course’ | Marc Parry, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | June 21, 2011
- Five Ways Silicon Valley is Changing Education | Tina Barseghian, MindShift, KQED | April 15, 2011
MOOC-related models of credentialing
- Who Will Benefit from Badges (and Other New Forms of Credentialing)? | Audrey Watters, The Chronicle of Higher Education Hack [Higher] Education | July 2, 2012
- Online Degree Program Lets Students Test Out of What They Already Know | Angela Chen, The Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus blog | June 20, 2012
- Making It Count | Paul Fain, Inside Higher Ed | June 15, 2012
- Beyond the College Degree, Online Educational Badges | Tamar Lewin, New York Times Education | March 4, 2012
MOOC sites, classes and institutions who MOOC
MOOC-ish initiatives and open education resources from Mediasite users
- Permaculture course HS 432 HS 590 by NC State
- Astronomy course GSCI 313 by Evangel University
- CSCI N331 VB.NET Programing and others by Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
- Multiple courses including Engineering 651 and 652 by Lowcountry Graduate Center
- BUS 1750 Haworth College of Business at Western Michigan University
And last but not least, here’s the book one of our webinar panelists authored on distributed learning:
- Havice, W.L. and Havice, P. A., Editors, (2005). Distance and Distributed Learning Environments: Perspectives and Strategies. (54th Yearbook, Council on Technology Teacher Education.). Peoria, IL: MacMillan/McGraw-Hill.
Categories: Cool uses, Elearning, Lecture capture
E-Learning enrollment levels got you down?

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by Nicole Wise

on June 19, 2012

What do all engineering courses have in common? Complex equations and highly technical content.

For complicated courses on your campus especially, lecture capture can be a lifesaver. Your students can go back and review as much as they need to in order to understand the content. And their e-learning experience is even more valuable when that recording is in high-definition so that every single annotation made by their professor during class is crystal clear.

That’s exactly what the University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering students have now thanks to Mediasite. The school is opening up a brand new e-learning hub on campus this fall, Siegel Learning Center. The center is fully equipped with Mediasite that will be used to stream lectures to about 1,000 online students each semester and another 1,000 on-campus students. It’s adding ML HD Recorders to every classroom that will run on Mediasite 6 so that they can watch high-def lectures anytime anywhere from their mobile devices.

And the college is seeing results. It’s been using Mediasite for lecture capture for five years, and every year since its seen double digit enrollment increases for remote students.

“I completely credit that to having the course materials available online via Mediasite webcasts,” said Marty Ronning, assistant director for the Distance Education Technology and Services program.

You can read more about why the school decided to equip its new e-learning hub with Mediasite in our press release, University of Maryland A. James Clark School of Engineering Drives Double Digit Enrollment Increases for Remote Students Through Online Learning Via Mediasite.

Categories: Applications, Cool uses, Elearning, In the news, Mediasite tech tips, Mediasite in action, Lecture capture, Customer highlights, Trends
Making headlines: Sonic Foundry Named Lecture Capture Market Leader (again)

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by Nicole Wise

on June 13, 2012

We’re proud to announce that we have once again been named the Global Market Share Leader for Lecture Capture Solutions by industry analyst Frost & Sullivan. Sonic Foundry announced this exciting news this week during UBTech (which we’re live streaming via Mediasite). This is the sixth consecutive year we’ve received this honor, and we’re humbled every time.

Frost & Sullivan is a global research organization of about 1,800 analysts and consultants. They monitor over 300 industries and 250,000 companies to determine how best-in-class companies worldwide manage growth, innovation and leadership.

Based on its findings, we were given the 2012 Global Market Share Leadership Award in Lecture Capture Solutions.

You can read more about the research in our press release, Sonic Foundry Named Global Market Leader in Lecture Capture by Frost & Sullivan for Sixth Consecutive Year, but here are a few excerpts from the report:

"For six consecutive years, Sonic Foundry has remained the market share leader of the lecture capture solutions market. The company continues to consistently enhance the features and functionality of its flagship solution, Mediasite, with academic customers in mind. As a result, no other vendor (even pure-play academic) has been able to unseat Sonic Foundry.”

“Sonic Foundry leads the market, with product revenue comprising over 17 percent of total lecture capture market revenue. Key performance drivers that contribute to Sonic Foundry’s ongoing success include providing trusted, innovative solutions, achieving worldwide brand visibility resulting from extensive channel partnerships, and maintaining deep customer satisfaction and loyalty.”

“Sonic Foundry’s outstanding performance inspires participants in the lecture capture solutions market to strive for new levels of success."

We’re in Vegas all week for UBTech and InfoComm 2012, so if you’re attending the shows, stop by UBTech booth #301 and InfoComm booth #C9141 to say hi and check out what’s new in Mediasite. (There’s a lot!)

Categories: Awards, Best practices, In the news, Event webcasting, Mediasite in action, Lecture capture, Customer highlights, Events, Mediasite road map
See you in Vegas: Sonic Foundry attends InfoComm and UBTech this week

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by Nicole Wise

on June 11, 2012
The Sonic Foundry crew is descending on
Vegas this week for UBTech (formerly EduComm) June 11-13 and InfoComm June 9-15, and we’ve got a ton of new announcements in store for you.

Come by and say hi at UBTech booth #301 and InfoComm booth #C9141 and check out our new Mediasite features.

UBTech 2012 at The Mirage

We’re the titanium sponsor and will be capturing all UBTech sessions live, and we’re also recording the Monday Pre-Conference Summits.

On June 12, our very own Sean Brown, VP of education, is presenting “Reaping the Benefits of Lecture Capture: Large Scale ROI for Large Scale Deployments.”

You can learn more about the conference webcasts in our press release Sonic Foundry Partners with UBTech to Live Webcast Annual Educational Technology Conference.

InfoComm 2012 at the Las Vegas Convention Center

You'll be seeing a lot of us this week in Vegas because another one of our own, John Pollard, event services program director, is on a panel discussion, "Interactive Technologies for Live Events" during InfoComm Super Tuesday (IST07) June 12.

We’re kicking off Wednesday with a press conference at 10 a.m. (Vegas time) at our booth where we’ll be exclusively demoing several new Mediasite features. For the first time we’re showing:
- The new Mediasite ML HD Recorder, our newest addition to the family. It streams in the highest resolution for portable HD webcasting.
- Mobile playback on iPhones, iPads, Android and BlackBerrys
- Mediasite 6.1, which includes new video content management and delivery features
- Playback support for multiple video streams and adaptive streaming
- A new partnership with Vaddio, the leading manufacturer and OEM-distributor of specialty PTZ cameras and camera control systems.
- Plus, check our new Mediasite Desktop Recorder
You can learn more about the InfoComm webcasts in our press release "Sonic Foundry Partners with InfoComm International to Webcast Largest AV Tradeshow in the World."

Throughout the week we’ll be making announcements about the fabulous people doing fabulous things with Mediasite. Today we are proud to say that Mediasite users Tilburg School of Economics and Management and Videosurgery are finalists for the AV Technology End-User Awards. Winners are announced Tuesday. Keep checking www.worldofwebcast.com for more news.

That’s all for now. We’ll see you in Vegas… (if we don’t melt from the hundred-degree temperatures, first. Yikes!)
Categories: In the news, Event webcasting, Mediasite in action, Upcoming live webcasts, Customer highlights, Events, Mediasite road map
MOOC This, MOOC That – What’s Academia to Do

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by Hershel Miller

on June 11, 2012
When you step out on your doorstep and find a MOOC article on the cover of your local paper, you know it’s time to start thinking about their potential adoption.

Institutions like Princeton, Penn, Michigan, Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley have all joined the MOOC train.

So what does this trend mean for you, your faculty and your campus?

That’s a tough question, especially when we are still developing common definitions for a MOOC program.

Join us, Tuesday, June 26 at 11:00 am CT for A Practical Response to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).

Casey Green of the Campus Computing Project will moderate our online learning panel with Pamela A. Havice, PhD. Associate Professor at Clemson University and Sean Brown, Vice President Education at Sonic Foundry.

Our panel will discuss:
- Where do MOOCs fit in the larger online learning ecosystem?
- What impact will MOOCs, flipped and hybrid classes have on traditional, synchronous face to face education?
- Can the MOOC model help unlock the online teaching potential for every instructor on your campus right now?
- How does online instruction and video knowledge fit into the personal learning environment of your existing students? And how will it be captured, distributed and delivered in a post-MOOC world?
Here’s that link again to register for A Practical Response to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCS).
Categories: Elearning, Lecture capture, Trends
Games+Learning+Society ... +Webcasting: GLS Conference Goes Hybrid with Mediasite

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by Nicole Wise

on June 08, 2012

You may have seen the Games+Learning+Society (GLS) group in the news recently for receiving over $1 million from the Gates Foundation to design games that focus on kindness instead of violence. Well, if that interested you, here’s your chance to learn more about GLS. You can hear from the group and many prominent speakers from around the country directly, because Sonic Foundry is the webcast provider for the GLS Conference 8.0 held next week June 13 to 15 in Madison.

It doesn’t matter where you live. You’ll be able to watch sessions live or on-demand for free, because Mediasite is streaming it to the world. Keynote speakers will be streamed live, and other sessions will be available to you on-demand.

We’ve done the webcasting for GLS in the past, helping the knowledge shared at the event to reach a much larger audience.

You can learn more about why GLS chose Sonic Foundry as a webcast provider, where you can watch sessions and who the keynotes are in our press release: Sonic Foundry to Webcast Games+Learning+Society Conference 8.0.

Categories: Cool uses, In the news, Event webcasting, Mediasite in action, Technology, Events