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 …
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Copyright violations: Videos from our OER Web Science MOOC deleted from Wikimedia commons
I understand that the following article is written in a very personal way. But this thing seems to me so unjust that it is just unbelievable. So this is my sad story of me trying to bring free educational resources to the world and having Microsoft indirectly not allowing me to do so 🙁 The following …
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: …
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 …
Analyzing the final and intermediate results of the iversity MOOC Fellowship online voting
As writen before Steffen and I participated in the online voting for the MOOC fellowship. Today the competition finished and I would like to say thank you to everyone who so far participated in the voting in particular to the 435 people supporting our course. I did never image to get that many people to …
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 (