MOOCs – Massive Open Online Courses – have been grabbing headlines and conference time for a year or two now. It’s the very large numbers that attract attention. But are MOOCs solving any real, global education problems? They are certainly not solving the problem of providing the 100,000,000 university places now needed by young people […] View Article
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… unless you fail to find something interesting. The second run of ocTEL, the Open Course in Technology Enhanced Learning,… View Article
Leave a commentReport from a Centre for Distance Education seminar, University of London, 13 Jan 2014 The University of London’s (UoL) Centre for Distance Education (CDE) provides thought-provoking lunchtime seminars on topics of interest to learning technology practitioners and staff who teach or administer online courses. A recent well-attended seminar on the practicalities of Massive Open Online […] View Article
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A new strategy for ALT We are currently consulting on a new strategy for ALT for 2014-17. In addition to… View Article
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ALT convened a Policy Board meeting on 7 October 2013 at the Institute of Education in London. These meetings are… View Article
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In the summer of 2012 the team of teachers and researchers associated with the MSc in E-learning programme at the… View Article
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In July 2011, Stanford University announced that three introductory one-term undergraduate courses would be available free as online distance learning… View Article
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