So Long, and Thanks for All the Ghoti.  Monday, April 15, 2013
Non-university MOOCs  Today, I've enrolled in my second ever
MOOC. The first MOOC I took was Learning and Knowledge Analytics
in early 2011. Back then, MOOCs were an concept entirely new to
me, and I joined mostly because I was interested in the format,
not so much because of the specific content (which I enjoyed
anyway, though). The MOOC I have just joned is called LTMOOC,
and has a focus on language teaching.  I can already tell that
the two MOOCs differ significantly from each other. Learning
analytics had a stronger theoretical focus, while LT uses a lot
of project work. And while Learning Analytics was organized by
university researchers, LTMOOC is organized by two individuals
employed by the co-founders of Instreamia, a company that sells
a virtual learning environment (VLE) for language teaching.  I
wonder how this combination - practical focus and closeness to a
specific company - will influence the learning experience. As
far as I can te