This is a PowerPoint presentation focusing on MOOC's. Some history of MOOC's, different types of MOOC's one can get and some sites to go to, to engage with these MOOC's.

4. Online course aimed at
unlimited participation and
open access via the web. It
provides interaction and
creates a community for
students, professors and
teaching assistance on
diverse subjects.

7.  2004 - George Siemons and Stephen
Downe’s developed the theory of
connectivism, which can be defined as
learning with the role of social and cultural
context.
 2008 - The first MOOC was presented at the
University of Manitoba with approximately
2200 learners.
 2010 – video’s about MOOCs are available
on YouTube added by Dave Cormier.

8.  2011 – MOOCs for the college prep skills
helps freshmen prepare for college
requirements (Cormier,2011).
 2012 – Harvard’s first MOOC has
approximately 370 000 registraterd
learners (Pappano,2012).
Coursera launches from Stanford: Offers first
XMOOCs (Chen,2012)
The New York Times call 2012 “The year of
the MOOCs.”(Pappano,2012).

9.  2013 – CMOOCs and XMOOCs too
numerous to accurately count.

10.  XMOOCs
This MOOC focuses mostly on Instructional
approaches to teaching as the instructor
along with the support team, record and
provide video lectures for learning.
Knowledge that learners have acquired
are then practiced through formative
assessment as they are assessed in some
sort of graded activity.

11.  CMOOC
This MOOC tends to focus more on
constructivist and connectivist
approaches to learning.
Learning truly happens when learners
interact with authentic materials.
This approach is learner centred.

12.  Stanford Online
 NovoED
 Khan Academy
 WizIQ
 Iversity
 Canvas Network.

13.  Jenay Davis’s work has played a big role
in this presentation on MOOC.
 www.slideshare.com