coolcatteacher:

Sad to see that the first major fail of a MOOC would happen at my alma mater, Georgia Tech, but I do applaud their transparency and moving forward with it. I hope they do it soon. With 41,000 students in the #foemooc - they had 40,000 students in a google doc which has a limit of 50 simultaneous editors - and with no backup - they weren’t ready for the problems that would happen. This was a Coursera course and it just couldn’t handle the load. Interestingly this was a Fundamentals of Online Education MOOC which makes it even more ironic. Read this article for more about what happened.

“Maybe it was inevitable that one of the new massive open online courses would crash. After all, MOOCs are being launched with considerable speed, not to mention hype. But MOOC advocates might have preferred the collapse of a course other than the one that was suspended this weekend, one week into instruction: “Fundamentals of Online Education: Planning and Application.”“

I was actually in this course and i am deeply saddened by it.

Here is an interesting list of the 10 really interesting TED Talks that i found fun. HMMMM some of them kind of get there though.

an interesting list of resources. My personal face is sympoz

hmmmm free textbooks! … what is the world coming to.

coolcatteacher:

I love and use Evernote - with all of the apps that add into it, it is very useful. I do also know that many schools love Microsoft One Note -one of the best academic offerings of the company. Here’s a website about Evernote for Schools with resources for you. Either way, schools moving to 1:1 initiatives need to upgrade their school’s notebook to allow for group notetaking and simple sharing as afforded by both of these programs.

A site using parallax that talks about finance education and student debt