{"id":33,"date":"2014-10-01T22:05:55","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T05:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/minghuiyu\/?p=33"},"modified":"2014-10-08T13:54:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T20:54:38","slug":"mooc-study-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/minghuiyu\/2014\/10\/01\/mooc-study-group\/","title":{"rendered":"MOOC Study Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flexible Learning and Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) are reshaping not only higher education but also professional development. Many of us work hard everyday to provide superior flexible learning experience to UBC students. As staff members, we should also\u00a0deem flexible learning and MOOC as viable professional development opportunities for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>I propose to set up on campus MOOC study groups to coordinate learners across campus so that we can learn together. Why? Much\u00a0research has\u00a0indicated\u00a0that group-based study can improve learning experiences. I strongly believe that UBC should invest resources to support such MOOC study groups as a pilot for staff professional development. It is cost effective to UBC!<\/p>\n<p>Some interesting MOOC courses<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coursera.org\/specialization\/jhudatascience\/1?utm_medium=listingPage\">Data Science Specification<\/a> from Coursera<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udacity.com\/nanodegrees\">Nanodegree<\/a> from Udacity<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flexible Learning and Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) are reshaping not only higher education but also professional development. Many of us work hard everyday to provide superior flexible learning experience to UBC students. As staff members, we should also\u00a0deem flexible learning and MOOC as viable professional development opportunities for ourselves. I propose to set up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":187,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[929,2381],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-professional-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/minghuiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/minghuiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/minghuiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/minghuiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/187"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/minghuiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/minghuiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/minghuiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/minghuiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/minghuiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/minghuiyu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}