Sunday, April 24, 2016

Learning Differences MOOC might help educators target instruction - eCampus News

A new report suggests that the Learning Differences Massive Open Online Course for Educators (MOOC Ed), provided by the Friday Institute for Education Innovation at NC State University, may help teachers around the world advance their knowledge of learning differences and better meet the learning needs of their students. Written by researchers on the Friday Institute’s evaluation team, What’s the Value of a Learning Differences MOOC-Ed? analyzes how participants found value in the course using a “value creation framework” developed by Etienne Wenger, Beverly Trayner, and Maarten De Laat (2011). They suggest that, in order to appreciate the richness of the value created by learning communities or networks such as MOOC-Eds, it is helpful to think about value creation in terms of cycles. http://www.ecampusnews.com/online-learning/moocs/learning-differences-mooc/