{"id":34212,"date":"2012-11-16T10:52:50","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T15:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=34212"},"modified":"2012-11-16T11:50:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T16:50:29","slug":"reflections-on-spanish-mooc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2012\/11\/16\/reflections-on-spanish-mooc\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections on &#8220;Spanish MOOC&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I wonder how MOOCs focused on language will go&#8230;?\u00a0 It could be great to practice a language from folks all around the world &#8212; or will it be chaotic?\u00a0 Different accents. Real-world speaking and listening. Real world conflict, perhaps, as well.\u00a0 But it seems like there could be some effective learning going on &#8212; at least &#8220;on paper&#8221;.\u00a0\u00a0 I wonder, too, if 1\/2 of the time folks could speak one language &#8212; and would be the students during that part of the class &#8212; while the other 1\/2 of the time they speak another language &#8212; and would be the &#8220;teachers.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spanishmooc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34213 aligncenter\" title=\"SpanishMOOC-Jan2013\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SpanishMOOC-Jan2013.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/spanishmooc.com\/\" width=\"502\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SpanishMOOC-Jan2013.jpg 502w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/SpanishMOOC-Jan2013-150x74.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>And for yet another item on innovation within higher ed! Whew!<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinecollegecourses.com\/2012\/11\/16\/excelsior-college-and-three-california-community-colleges-offer-credit-for-professor-less-mooc\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Excelsior College and three California Community Colleges offer credit for professor-less MOOC <\/strong><\/a>&#8212; from online colleges.com by<strong> <\/strong>Alex Wukman<br \/>\n<em>Excerpt:<\/em><br \/>\nExcelsior College has partnered with San Diego City College, San Diego Miramar College, and Santa Rosa Junior College to offer credit for a professor-less, or mechanical, massive open online course (MOOC). The course, an introduction to statistics class, is being developed by the 20 Million Minds Foundation and the online learning community OpenStudy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: I wonder how MOOCs focused on language will go&#8230;?\u00a0 It could be great to practice a language from folks all around the world &#8212; or will it be chaotic?\u00a0 Different accents. Real-world speaking and listening. Real world conflict, perhaps, as well.\u00a0 But it seems like there could be some effective learning going on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,72,98,533,36,35,95,419,180,289,505,239,486,436,310,49],"tags":[653,606,93,808,586,585,16,770,661,599,453,251,794,779,722,399,572,593],"class_list":["post-34212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dangers-of-the-status-quo","category-daniel-s-christian","category-elearning","category-experimentation","category-future-of-higher-education","category-game-changing-environment","category-global-globalization","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-languages-and-translation","category-mooc-massive-open-online-course","category-new-business-models","category-real-world-assignments","category-reinvent","category-staying-relevant","category-web-based-collaboration","tag-dangers-of-the-status-quo","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-e-learning","tag-experimentation","tag-future-of-higher-education","tag-game-changing-environment","tag-global-learning","tag-ideas-teaching","tag-innovation","tag-languages","tag-moocs","tag-new-business-models-in-he","tag-real-world-assignments","tag-reinvent","tag-staying-relevant","tag-translation","tag-walmart-of-education","tag-web-based-collaboration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34212"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34245,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34212\/revisions\/34245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}