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Hot Topics: Going Massive
Online Course Development in MOOCs. |
Hot Topics: Going Massive -- Online Course Development in MOOCs.
Wednesday, April 6, 2016, 8:00-9:20 am EST.
Room Holiday 4, Hilton Baltimore
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| Time | Presenter | Title | Summary | Links to materials |
| Justin Shewell | MOOCs_1.pptx | |||
| Shane Dixon | MOOCs_2.pptx | |||
| Maggie Sokolik | Creativity and the edX Platform is ________. | sokolik-evo-TESOL16.pptx | ||
| Deborah Healey | Canvas Network | This online platform is free to college, university, K-12, and some NGO/for profit organizations. Like all MOOCs, it has it pluses and minuses. | Healey-Canvas Network.pptx | |
| Elizabeth Hanson-Smith | Build It and They Will Come: The EVO MOOC |
The CALL-IS Project, the Electronic Village Online, has reached MOOC proportions with over 8,000 participants, but it has some unique features that retain its personal flavor. |
Build it and they will come.pptx |
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Dr. Deborah Healey teaches online (MOOC and smaller) and face-to-face teacher education courses at the University of Oregon’s American English Institute and Department of Linguistics. She is a member of the Board of Directors of TESOL International Association. She writes and presents extensively internationally on appropriate use of technology in language teaching. Her doctorate is in Computers in Education. She was Chair of the CALL-IS in 1991-92. |
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Dr. Elizabeth Hanson-Smith was a teacher educator for over thirty years in China, Sri Lanka, Belize, Russia, and Egypt. She was formerly Coordinator of the CSUS TESOL Program and Chair of CALL-IS (1994-95). Author of books, articles, and software, she was Coordinator for 10 years of the EVO, and recently taught MOOCs for the US DoS and the University of Oregon. |