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Useful links for COMMONS partners: Communities of Practice, social learning, co-learning, e-mentoring, etc.
Prior to entering into the topic discussion concerning Virtual Communities of Practice (VCoPs) and the software they might choose to use, it might be prudent at this time to take a moment to examine their origin.
A BuddyPress community.
"We started CLN in 2011 to share ideas about learning and teaching, as well as provide a collaborative space for good ideas to take form and, hopefully, spread."
My previous post about the MOOC disaster at Coursera with the Fundamentals of Online Education [FOE] course generated constructive and worthy discussions among readers that focused on the value and purpose of the MOOC, the role of the instructor and student, and how learning happens within this type of course.
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The education media declared 2012 the year of the MOOC, and even mainstream news featured numerous stories about Massive Open Online Courses, some suggesting that this new type of course would revolutionize the model of higher education. Yet the MOOCs featured in the media are quite different from the original concept.
Guidance from coaches Taking online courses is convenient, but what happens when you get stuck? Upon enrolling in a course, we'll connect you with a personal coach to help you through challenging content. Our coaches can also work with you to create a target course timeline to help keep you on track.
The easiest way to caption and translate any video, with crowdsourcing, volunteers, and professional services.
Amara, a nonprofit crowd source subtitling platform that engages volunteers from around the world to translate online videos, has been adopted by two leading online education providers, Coursera and Khan Academy, to make academic videos globally accessible. Launched in 2010, Amara has already added more than 200,000 subtitles in 100 different languages to online videos.
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Communities, the WordPress way
I've had to wear a number of hats in recent years... Application Developer, Front End Developer, Backend Programmer, Database Administrator, and Project Manager in a wide variety of web sites, startups and projects. I'm particularly interested and focused on startup projects and anything WordPress/BuddyPress related (which at this time is majority of my work).
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While the Tories and Labour will blame each other for this failure, the education problem is deep in Britain's political DNA. Successive governments have genuflected to the belief that education is the engine of growth and prosperity, and that the extraordinary amounts spent (about £1,400 for every UK citizen in 2014) are therefore justified.
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