{"id":2432,"date":"2013-07-24T10:01:48","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T10:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/copyright.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=2432"},"modified":"2014-11-19T16:26:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T16:26:37","slug":"moocs-on-bob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/07\/24\/moocs-on-bob\/","title":{"rendered":"MOOCs on BoB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coursera.org\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2433\" style=\"margin: 5px\" alt=\"Cousera Screenshot\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/CouseraScreenshot-300x221.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;or, if learning technology acronyms are not your cup of tea, <a title=\"MOOC explanation\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teachingandlearning\/?p=178\" target=\"_blank\">Massive Open Online Courses <\/a>on <a title=\"BoB\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=2423\">Box of Broadcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BoB on Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bufvc_bob\" target=\"_blank\">@bufvc_bob<\/a> has tweeted a link to the <a title=\"Zeitgeisters 4\/4, Radio 4, on BoB\" href=\"http:\/\/bobnational.net\/programme.php?archive=156880&amp;view=flash_player\" target=\"_blank\">last edition of the Radio 4 <em>Zeitgeisters <\/em>series<\/a> (requires login) on BoB, in which Will Gompertz meets cultural entrepreneurs shaping our lives.\u00a0Here Will talks to Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng from Coursera.org, &#8220;who are seeking to take university education into the Internet age.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Having worked in HE e-learning since 2000, part of me resents the implication that HE has not embraced the Internet for teaching and learning &#8211; but of course there is some truth in this, as echoed by <a title=\"Steve Rowett lecture capture keynote\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/elearning\/?p=2415\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Rowett from UCL in his keynote presentation<\/a> at our lecture capture conference in which (with some poetic licence) he showed how a 13thC lecture at the University of Bologna was essentially the same model that you would find in many lecture theatres at UCL, Lougborough, or indeed anywhere else today.<\/p>\n<p>The numbers of students enrolled in courses on Coursera (and the other main platforms) are startling, and it is this apparent explosion of MOOCs that has driven the Open University and other institutions in the UK to form the\u00a0<a title=\"Futurelearn\" href=\"http:\/\/futurelearn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Futurelearn<\/a>\u00a0consortium (to which Loughborough now belongs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or, if learning technology acronyms are not your cup of tea, Massive Open Online Courses on Box of Broadcasts. @bufvc_bob has tweeted a link to the last edition of the Radio 4 Zeitgeisters series (requires login) on BoB, in which Will Gompertz meets cultural entrepreneurs shaping our lives.\u00a0Here Will talks to Daphne Koller and Andrew<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/2013\/07\/24\/moocs-on-bob\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moocs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432","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=2432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3044,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2432\/revisions\/3044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/teaching-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}