TLT Group FridayLive! Using MOOCs: What are they? What's the experience like? How can they intersect with college based courses?

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The topic for this week's FridayLive! is Using MOOCs
What are they?  What's the experience like? How can they intersect with college based courses?

What are these newest, biggest online teaching/learning resources?  In what ways are they similar to and different from previous online education?  How are the most recent activities that claim the label "MOOC" similar to and different from very large, open, free, online courses (e.g., Stanford Computer Science Engineering courses Fall 2011)?

We'll introduce the ideas, provide some references, explore alternatives and select one MOOC for collaborative exploration.  All participants are welcome to join this TLT Group cohort which will participate in a real live MOOC in the next couple of months.  Our main goal for this project is to help people understand what MOOCs can do to help with teaching and learning in colleges and universities, and to identify ways that

- faculty can effectively, comfortably use specific freely available MOOCs in conjunction with undergraduate courses and programs;  

- faculty and other academic professionals can effectively, comfortably use specific freely available MOOCs in conjunction with faculty development, professional development programs.

We'll identify some goals, guidelines, and activities that will help our cohort to participate in the selected MOOC and prepare to report about this experience in 2 subsequent FridayLive! online sessions (probably a brief progress report in October/November and a more detailed debriefing in January).

As always, we welcome your attendance and your participation.

Register here.

Sally

Don't worry if you can't attend at 2 pm Eastern.  Our policy is that registrants have access to archives as do Individual Members.
BTW, we urge participants to have a headset.  Our "afterthoughts" portion of FridayLive! (3:00-3:00)  is a good time to try speaking in the Adobe room.  We are eager to hear as many voices as possible.

TLT Group FridayLive! Using MOOCs: What are they? What's the experience like? How can they intersect with college based courses?