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The Role of MOOCs in Online Education
Over the past few years, Americans have embraced free online courses, a trend that the entire world now seems to be following. MOOC undoubtedly remains the most important and talked-about trend in education history. It is responsible for the change a... -
#BETTShow2013 - Bigger and BETTer
Running from January 30th to February 2nd last week was the 29th Bett show, the British education training and technology event. This year was bigger than ever before and to accommodate the increasing demand Bett moved to the Excel arena which meant... -
The Learning Life
We found this infographic "The Learning Life: An Inside Look at the Habits of the Modern Student" on Faculty Focus. It was created by StudyBlue, a leading mobile study tool with more than 2 million users, using data from a survey issued November 26-3... -
2012 'THE YEAR OF THE MOOC': THE EVOLUTION OF eLEARNING - INFOGRAPHIC
OCC loves elearning. We've worked with many organisations in the education, publishing, medical and professional sectors to develop a wide range of elearning resources from apps to LMSs. Check out our work here and get in touch if you want to ... -
MOOCs: The Future of Higher Education?
View infographic that accompanies this post.In the UK we are used to accusations of being over-traditional and stuck in our ways and our education system is no exemption to this. In my final year at university I experienced the American lecturer for ... -
Tablets to Takeover Teaching?
“Given Tablets but No Teachers, Ethiopian Children Teach Themselves” Classrooms are changing. Technological advances are transforming the way that children learn, or at least are taught. This is happening fast - there are dramatic differences betwee... -
Futuristic Furbys
This Christmas will see the 2012 Furby revival. The mechanical fur covered children’s must-have of the late nineties has been revamped and is back for a new generation of children to enjoy. The 2012 re - furbish - ments include LCD screen eyes which... -
If Socrates did digital professional development...
Learning is often said to be most effective when the user is given the chance to interact with the content, and when lots of users share or pool their knowledge via forums or Wikis. Online digital media has great potential as a learning tool, because... -
Facebook Places and serendipity
Most of you will be familiar with Foursquare, which allows its users to check-in at various places around town, and share favourite locations with their friends in real-time, while they’re already at the pub, the park or the gig. The point is to co... -
Blog round-up
We at Open CC like to keep abreast of the latest developments in our sector - and one of the ways in which we do this is to keep a keen eye on some blogs that we like.We have an internal newsletter which features the headlines from these blogs.We tho...