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+Christina Hendricks originally shared I recently watched this presentation by Martin Hawksey, who is…

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Brendan Murphy Tue, 25 Jun 2013 16:22:47 GMT - Community - Open Online Experience Planning Group (Questions and Discussion)
+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.
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