http://blog.tfd.co.uk/2012/08/22/massively-online/ Open Source Open Thought Thu, 24 Jan 2013 05:22:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://blog.tfd.co.uk/2012/08/22/massively-online/#comment-1649 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:55:41 +0000 http://blog.tfd.co.uk/?p=657#comment-1649 Now there is a challenge! I am not certain that any of the current Open Source learning environments have the structure necessary to deliver MOOC and teaching through the porus institutional boundaries, because they were not designed to deliver MOOCs. Thats not to say that they could not evolve and convert the 1:n author/teacher/course:student relationship into a 1:nE5 relationship, but I think it would be almost as much development effort as taking components already designed for that purpose and adding the educational capabilities. Its the level of usage relative to cost of creation that completely changes the nature of game.

]]> http://blog.tfd.co.uk/2012/08/22/massively-online/#comment-1647 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:43:58 +0000 http://blog.tfd.co.uk/?p=657#comment-1647 Ian – It is not too late. edX will likely never release its software open source even though it has promised to do so. Coursera will spend its energy defining and drawing attention to the space (a very worthy goal) rather than fully colonizing and exploiting the space and is likely not ever going to be open source. Right now while MOOCs are all the rage in the media – the current MOOC offerings provide the most insignificant volume of real education today. Someone still needs to come in with an open source solution that functions at scale with the notion that the boundaries of education are porous. I don’t think that either the CLE nor OAE can evolve into this new form. Increasingly, I think that if a truly open source solution emerges for providing MOOC-like course experiences from literally any school on the planet – it will have evolved from Moodle. Doing this as a ground-up write-from-scratch with 5-20Million dollars is bound to suffer the Duke Nukem Forever syndrome (edX and Coursera will suffer from this eventually). I am not saying “use Moodle” – I am saying *evolve* from Moodle. If I won the lottery tomorrow – this is what I would start working on. Oh yeah and a desktop authoring environment for course materials.

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