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Webinar: “A journey through the assessment and feedback landscape: from principles to effective practice”, May 20, 11.00 CEST

A new webinar “A journey through the assessment and feedback landscape: from principles to effective practice” is due on 20 May, 2015 at 11.00 CEST, as part of the TALOE webinar series “Talks on e-assessment and learning outcomes”.

The lecturer will be Dr. Gill Ferrell, Consultant at Aspire and the E-learning

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Much has been said

Much has been said about MOOCs in terms of technology. At the same time, surprisingly, MOOCs are quickly disappearing from the Gartner hype curve. But are MOOCs a technology? Why such a rapid disappearance?
I have a very simple explanation: MOOCs are a means to learn and to acquire knowledge through

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MOOCs, SPOCs and behind

In my last post I imagined how universities and Higher Education, more generally, could benefit from a blended education, partly as SPOC, i.e. small online courses, and partly face to face.
Apart from thedisruption oflearning and teaching methods, the financial costs and human resources required to generalize the use of SPOCs

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MOOCs and universities

I have long lived in the United States, I worked and lived there and I came back truly European, convinced that we belong to a different culture and a different civilization. This has been a very important reason for my investment in EUNIS from its beginning.
In the US, universities, even

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