{"id":1484,"date":"2014-01-03T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2014-01-03T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T17:23:09","slug":"truly-taking-the-mooc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2014\/01\/03\/truly-taking-the-mooc\/","title":{"rendered":"Truly taking the MOOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?attachment_id=1487\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1487\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1487\" alt=\"uofs-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2014\/01\/uofs-logo1.png\" width=\"275\" height=\"62\" \/><\/a>Moments after registering for the University of Saskatchewan&#8217;s new MOOC (Massive Open Online\u00a0Course)\u00a0\u2013 or, as they\u00a0term it, a TOOC (Truly Open Online Course)\u00a0\u2013 I have that sense of forboding that only a\u00a0New Year&#8217;s resolution can bring. But, by now blogging about it, I may not be able to get out of it that easily, hence this post!<\/p>\n<p>Entitled <em>Introduction to Learning Technologies<\/em>, and with a start date in the week beginning 20 January 2014, as well as\u00a0a completion date of 15 April 2014, I already have serious trepidations about signing up to do this. Thus, is there anyone out there, particularly in the Loughborough Unviersity Learning and Teaching Community, who might want to join me on this journey? If so, drop me an email at <a href=\"mailto:m.fitzgerald@lboro.ac.uk\">m.fitzgerald@lboro.ac.uk<\/a> and I won&#8217;t feel that I&#8217;m very much\u00a0on my own! Further information on this MOOC \u2013 sorry, TOOC\u00a0\u2013 is\u00a0available at <a href=\"http:\/\/words.usask.ca\/learning-tech\/\">http:\/\/words.usask.ca\/learning-tech\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moments after registering for the University of Saskatchewan&#8217;s new MOOC (Massive Open Online\u00a0Course)\u00a0\u2013 or, as they\u00a0term it, a TOOC (Truly Open Online Course)\u00a0\u2013 I have that sense of forboding that only a\u00a0New Year&#8217;s resolution can bring. But, by now blogging about it, I may not be able to get out of it that easily, hence<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2014\/01\/03\/truly-taking-the-mooc\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,16,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cpd","category-informal-learning","category-teaching-room-technologies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}