Patrick Kiely

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 15:55:11 GMT
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Doug Holton

Tue, 09 Jul 2013 14:52:21 GMT
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For an urban planning MOOC, they used this tool for town hall discussions, instead of Coursera’s discussion forum: http://www.mindmixer.com/

Some other similar tools out there that might better handle large scale discussions might include things like Google Groups (which has a Q&A format now), Google+ Communities, StackExchange clones like Q&A (for Wordpress) or LampCMS or OSQA or Coordino, or reddit-like clones, or RSS aggregators such as used in the OCTEL mooc: http://mashe.hawksey.info/2013/03/mooc-in-a-box-turning-wordpress-into-an-open-course-reader-octel/

Joseph Gliddon

Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:54:57 GMT
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So long #octel, I had fun

Joseph Gliddon

Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:54:13 GMT
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Having just finished another mooc, did I do it for the brains or the badge?

Brendan Murphy

Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:22:47 GMT
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+Christina Hendricks originally shared
I recently watched this presentation by Martin Hawksey, who is running the platform for the ocTEL MOOC (http://octel.alt.ac.uk/). It talks about how to run a cMOOC on Word Press (self-hosted site, not on wordpress.com. He talks about using Feed Word Press for blog aggregation, and also about another plugin that allows for discussion forums on Word Press: BBpress. So apparently it’s possible to have discussion forums on WP with this plugin.

He doesn’t get into tech specifics in this presentation, just general things about the tools they’re using for ocTEL. It’s really interesting for thinking of designing a cMOOC using Word Press, so if you have time, go ahead and listen to it. The presentation itself is around 30-40 minutes or so, then there’s questions after that that I didn’t find that useful for me, but you might.