Last year we have created a MOOC on Web Science. We had chosen Wikiversity as a platform for hosting the MOOC. The reason for this was the high trust we had in the Wikimedia foundation strengthening the open movement. The main problem we experienced with Wikiversity was that the software running Wikiversity is obviously a …
Category: Webscience
The Web is the largest human information construct in history. The Web is transforming society. In order to understand what the Web is, engineer its future and ensure its social benefit we need a new interdisciplinary field that we call Web Science.
Web Science MOOC – first lessons about Ethernet and Internet Protocol online
2 months ago I started to create the Web Science MOOC and now you can join our MOOC as a student. We will start online streamed flipped classroom lessons on October 29th. Our MOOC is truely open meaning that all the teaching material will be provided as open educational resources with a creative commons 3.0 …
MOOCs at Wikiversity: A Barcamp proposal for #OERde13
I would like to have an discussion with people that have experience or are interested in MOOCs and Wikiversity. The goal is to checkout the possibilities for creating (otherwise over commercialized) MOOCs in an OER environment (especially wikiversity). Background: According to my former blog post there are 3 ways for creating a MOOC that is truely OER: …
Reading Club Management of Big Data
Even though the reading club on distributed graph data bases stopped I never really lost interest in management of big data and graph data. Due to the development of research grants and some new workers in our group I decided to create a new reading club. (The next and first meeting will be Thursday September …
Graphity Server for social activity streams released (GPLv3)
It is almost 2 years over since I published my first ideas and works on graphity which is nowadays a collection of algorithms to support efficient storage and retrieval of more than 10k social activity streams per second. You know the typical application of twitter, facebook and co. Retrieve the most current status updates from your …
Comparison of open educational resources services to host your MOOC
This article on open and free platforms to host your MOOC belongs to the entire series: comparison of places to host your MOOC. As already mentioned there are only a few platforms which really belong to the category of open educational resources. The term is described in the Wikipedia article: Open educational resources as follows: …
Comparison of platforms and places to use to host your MOOC
As many of you know and voted (thanks for that) Steffen and I tried to get a MOOC fellowship in order to create a web science MOOC. Even though our application was not successful we decided that online teaching in the MOOC format is suitable for the web science lecture. With the structure from our …
Please help me to realize my Web science massive open online course
I am asking you for a big favor in this blog post! You can help me to achieve one of my childhood dreams: I am an enthusiastic teacher and love to share information (as you might have seen by reading my blog) Over the last month I have designed a structure for an online course …
Web science education and web science mooc
The slides of my talk in the web science education workshop can be found here. The talk was about two things: Our application for the web science mooc (
Related work slides from Rigour and Openness @ Oxford 2013
please find all the information of the talk in oxford. the slides of the talk just given in at Rigour and Openness in Oxford the original product requirement document for the related work project technical slides about related work at FOSDEM 2013 the source code the data Btw it will be build on graphity to …