Dear Colleagues,

After nearly two weeks of interesting and enlightening discussions, our current event Developing World MOOCs – Workshop on MOOCs in Africa has ended with a great online live meeting that happened Friday 27 June at 1 pm (SAST/GMT +2). If you missed out on this great session the recording will be made available later.

The recording from the first live meeting 18 June is available here  and resources will remain available on the workshop landing page.

A bit about Friday’s session from workshop conveners Andrew Deacon, Sukaina Walji and Janet Small, University of Cape Town

MOOCs have generated tremendous interest and sometimes misunderstandings. What we found useful in order to understand the opportunities MOOCs offer is to consider the way MOOCs are developed and used from different points of view. In this final session we look the ideas and questions asked about MOOCs in the forums from three specific perspectives, namely the from the points of view of:

Participant (why would you take a MOOC?);
An educator (why use MOOCs & how MOOCs can be used?)
An institutional researcher (what can MOOCs teach us?).

Please join us for this final session on Friday to share your ideas and questions.

This exciting online workshop led by Andrew Deacon, Sukaina Walji and Janet Small from the Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching at University of Cape Town , South Africa continues until 27 June. 

If you’re just joining us then you can view the recording of the live online meeting held on 18 June and access “Developing world MOOCs: a curriculum view of the MOOC landscape ” by the workshop conveners and Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz on the strategic options available to universities. Participation in the forums requires registration to the e/merge Africa website, which can be done for free here.

The workshop will finish with a follow-up online meeting on Friday 27 June from 1-2 pm (SAST/GMT +2) that will tackle issues that have emerged. Participants will be encouraged to consider and articulate the opportunities and concerns for their own institutions presented by MOOCs. Updates about the workshop will be available here, in the e/merge Africa Facebook group and by e-mail to signed up participants.

Dear Colleagues,

It gives us great pleasure to announce the opening of our workshop Developing World MOOCs – a workshop on MOOCs in Africa lead by Andrew Deacon, Sukaina Walji and Janet Small from the University of Cape Town , South Africa., which will start today 17 June and run until 27 June. Come and join us on the landing page for the seminar, which offers a paper a paper by the workshop conveners and Associate Professor Laura Czerniewicz (download here) and a discussion forum for your views on the role of MOOCs. You are invited to join the first of two live meetings which will be held tomorrow (18 June) from 1-2 pm (GMT+2).  Access details to be released by tomorrow morning. Viewing the landing page requires registration to the e/merge Africa live website, which can be done for free here.