Education & Technology, MOOC
What Should we Learn from Thrun’s ‘Pivot’ and Coursera’s New Wave of Funding
The news is more than a month old and probably been talked about excessively already. Coursera turned 2 and what better way to celebrate than to receive $20 million more as Series B funding. Sebastian...
Education & Technology, MOOC
MOOCs: Fact or Fiction
The Year of Mocking the MOOCs In the year 2012, also dubbed as “the year of the MOOC” by NY times, I remember Googling MOOCs and finding these scary, hollywood style, posters of people screaming...
MOOC
Welcome Again to Moodle MOOC 2 on WizIQ
The huge success of Moodle MOOC-1, that started in June, can be attributed to several factors: 1. an amazing line-up of invited guests and facilitators, 2. an amalgamation of two amazing concepts, i.e. Moodle and...
Education & Technology, MOOC
Frequently Asked Questions on MOOCs
What are MOOCs? MOOCs stand for Massive Open Online Courses. The idea behind the concept of MOOCs is that these are ‘Courses’, related to practically any topic, are offered ‘Online’, and are free and ‘Open’...
Education & Technology
Open Education Week on WizIQ
Open Education Week Around the World Open Education Week (OEW) is for everyone around the world. It is not only limited to the United States. The message from Mr. Duncan may seem that it’s only...