Sunday, April 28, 2013

Journal #9: Massive & Open

Fasimpaur, K. (2013, March). Massive and Open. In ISTE. Retrieved April 28, 2013, from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-leading/digitaledition/digital-edition-march-april-2013

Summary/ Analysis:  This article is about MOOC classes. MOOC classes very from the amount of students to the amount of time the professors spend with their students. There are two types of MOOC classes, the first one is cMOOC. CMOOC classes are online classes where students blog and create online projects. The second type of MOOC classes is xMOOC. xMOOC are classes where there are tons of participants in the course, however these classes typically focus on one subject like math or computer science. Surprisingly there are MOOC classes that are now being offered to K-12 students. K-12 MOOC teachers tape their lectures and post them up on websites. However when these classes were reviewed, they realized that people didn't support them as much because people believe that teachers need more guidance. Last year teachers received help from P2PU to help teachers with their e portfolios. Disregarding all the comments MOOC are becoming very successful with student enrollment starting at less than 100 students to more than 100,000. Personally I’m not very fond of online classes because I can’t learn a whole material by myself. I need a teacher to give me an example and then see if I can do it, and get feedback. But if I want to be a teacher I have to learn how all different types of teaching.


Question 1: What is MOOC?
Answer 1: Massive Open Online Courses

Question 2: What is the future for MOOC classes?
Answer 2.  MOOC classes are striving! More teachers are working on their e portfolio and more students are enrolling for online classes and or online school. 

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