Today Kent launched the pilot K-MOOC (Kent massive open online course) in\u00a0Functional Programming in Erlang (a programming language) with over 500\u00a0participants.<\/p>\n
The K-MOOC is a joint project led by Professor Simon Thompson<\/a> from the\u00a0School of Computing, Mark O’Connor<\/a>,\u00a0a Distance Learning Technologist for the University, and Stephen Adams<\/a>, who is the Teaching Assistant for\u00a0the course and a PhD student in computer science.<\/p>\n This K-MOOCs project<\/a>\u00a0is being supported by the University of Kent as part of its Beacon\u00a0Projects<\/a> initiative, which is in\u00a0celebration of the University’s 50th anniversary. The Erlang K-MOOC aims\u00a0to explore the feasibility of the University of Kent offering MOOCs, with\u00a0the ultimate aim to showcase and promote expertise, scholarship and\u00a0research at Kent for a global audience.<\/p>\n All staff and students are invited to the Beacon Tea Party<\/a> on Monday 11\u00a0May at 3.30pm in the Colyer-Fergusson building to celebrate the launch of\u00a0this and other Beacon Projects and to find out more.<\/p>\n Simon said: ‘We recorded some master classes in a studio with green screen\u00a0and these are in the final stages of production, but the majority of the\u00a0K-MOOC lectures are more “home made” and were recorded on my MacBook Pro, using the built in audio\u00a0and video facilities, and Kent’s lecture recording facilities that are\u00a0powered by Panopt<\/a>o. Given that “available tech”\u00a0approach, we’ve been pleased with the results.’<\/p>\n Simon Thompson will blog<\/a> about the K-MOOC as it progresses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today Kent launched the pilot K-MOOC (Kent massive open online course) in\u00a0Functional Programming in Erlang (a programming language) with over 500\u00a0participants. The K-MOOC is a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5321,"featured_media":649,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124],"tags":[8814,490,112442,498,57984],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5321"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/unikentcomp-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}