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by Fabian Banga After exploring this idea of the MOOC for several months, participating in several of them and reading everything I could find about this topic, I honestly think that the last C in MOOC should be seriously reconsidered or substituted for something more appropriate. Perhaps MOOE (for Event) would be more meaningful. Furthermore, …
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Open Education: Challenges and Possibilities* Contact: Fabian Banga, Berkeley City College; fbanga@peralta.edu Description: Challenges and opportunities with the use of open learning materials and technologies, including any learning, teaching and research resources in the public domain; such as open courses and course materials (courseware), open textbooks, and MOOCs . *2013 RMMLA-VANCOUVER (USA)
Para los que estén interesados, vamos a ofrecer un MOOc (massive open online “course”) “spanish 38” que será una extensión del curso en BCC Spanish 38, Introducción a la Literatura Latinoamericana, de la primavera del 2013. Este MOOC es enteramente en español, no es por crédito, no requiere asistencia obligatoria, no tendrá exámenes u otro tipo de evaluación …
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(in-progress - for the 2013 edition of magazine Connections - FLANC) The importance of confronting the challenges of online classes and preventing those challenges, I would suggest, is more important than foreseeing the opportunities the classes will offer. The possibilities are unlimited in every class. However, understanding its level of unpredictability, seem to be common ground on online …
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Fabián Banga 