{"id":7543,"date":"2013-09-01T11:06:01","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T18:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/?p=7543"},"modified":"2013-09-01T11:55:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T18:55:02","slug":"moocs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/2013\/09\/01\/moocs\/","title":{"rendered":"MOOCs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0<strong>Massively Open Online Course<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>MOOC<\/strong>) is an emerging model for interactive online learning experiences designed to accommodate possibly unlimited numbers of learners who potentially arrive, attend, participate, and leave on their own terms. \u00a0\u00a0<strong>MOOCs<\/strong>\u00a0can take\u00a0advantage of existing social media and gaming environments as platforms to host both formal and informal learning experiences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opportunity Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong>MOOCs\u00a0<\/strong>are primarily a \u2018mash up\u2019\u00a0opportunity domain, where new ventures will orchestrate trends, tools, and applications to serve audiences and their learning demands in creative, accessible and typically non-traditional ways. \u00a0 There are exciting opportunities for disruptively new ventures, and for existing ventures to pioneer new markets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prediction Source(s)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/Resources\/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutMOOCs\/241182\">Educause \u2013 MOOCS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/library\/resources\/7-things-you-should-know-about-moocs-ii\"><strong>Educause &#8211; MOOCS II<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/library\/resources\/top-ten-issues-higher-education-it-2013\"><strong>Educause &#8211; Top 10 IT Issues 2013<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinecolleges.net\/2013\/01\/23\/major-ed-tech-trends-for-2013\/\"><strong>Online Colleges &#8211; Tech Trends for 2013<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmc.org\/pdf\/2013-horizon-report-HE.pdf\"><strong>NMC Horizon Report 2013<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0Massively Open Online Course\u00a0(MOOC) is an emerging model for interactive online learning experiences designed to accommodate possibly unlimited numbers of learners who potentially arrive, attend, participate, and leave on their own terms. \u00a0\u00a0MOOCs\u00a0can take\u00a0advantage of existing social media and gaming environments as platforms to host both formal and informal learning experiences. Opportunity Statement MOOCs\u00a0are primarily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14967],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7543"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7582,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions\/7582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}