-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello friends!
Did any of you see this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education? https://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/course-management-companies-challenge-mooc-providers/40734 Long story short, the company Instructure, provider of the Canvas LMS (similar to Moodle, Blackboard, and Sakai) is getting into the MOOC space with "Canvas.net", a collection of open courses built with their tool. The perceived problem they are solving is one I've been fussing about for a long time: while EdX and Coursera are making a really big splash, they are relying on the brand-recognition of the Ivy League and Research Universities they partner with, which disappoints me since making exclusive deals with these institutions leaves out a lot of very talented people who have a lot to offer in this space. I think MOOCs send the wrong message when you have an "open course" that's officially led by one or two professors. Instructure calls this Canvas.net development the democratization of MOOCs, and I like that quite a bit. If MOOCs like Coursera are the Cathedral... maybe this new development can help foster the creation of a Bazaar. I wonder what a MOOC made in the Open Source Way, maybe even about the Open Source Way, would be like. Don't mind me, just thinking out loud, Barry Peddycord IsharaComix P.S. In January, Canvas.net is starting a course on Openness in Education. Probably relevant to this crowd. :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQk0lyAAoJEHuunagdgjYNWw0H/i/rTy6R/k4u6NhzyXu3psMT G2mJBIqvLimaawP4Q7qG63lMacoIlSh9eQhX8YkLSpQabW8h+dqXD0mLJNLyg37n 26ckj+r86Nqe0jf//RDt+yRBCLXFMU9ZYdcj8fbfjSolB7QczK3C2uRQGFuH7ijX EaYcvlDbgPTH3OzIe9LtF0R1ISj/KzfQ3nWYzQmVg0TlmCsFstRYbJ7mycLQS1oo EjjeNjEC0AYqaT1YmxA7bZ1xn21x3gclFrRO5rap9iuV56HMv8eDdn6I1u6hvV8J hO4fgysUyo39HNhk/su3c8sgkHTsETnAXomE/ZOhIWIDE2d11mAFNjobiHnqPuw= =YDdX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for our weekly newsletter: http://opensource.com/email-newsletter Osdc-list mailing list Osdc-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/osdc-list
