My encounter with MOOC: Tools Learned

As in my previous posts I was talking about online courses I joined. MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses). Online education is going in completely different direction. Students are getting benefited by these classrooms as compare to the live classrooms. Some of the courses I joined let me provide some details about theses courses.

1. Crash Course On Creativity
2. Technology and Entrepreneurship
3. Mobile Health without borders

All the above courses I joined are on venture lab. MOOC by Stanford University. Large no. of students from all over the world is participating in these online courses.

 Till now great learning is attached with these courses. Doing assignments, getting reviewed by your peers (peers review) sometimes we get angry because of bad reviews :) but still comments by others motivate you a lot to do better further. Furthermore working in team. Completing team assignments is amazing experience. You team up with strangers and strangers become friend with time. Google Hangouts, Chatting on various places. Participating in discussions. Proposing something, Criticizing at the same time. It was the thing that I never expected before but how the learning is shaping is amazing experience. Some of the tools about which I learned during the course from the team mates and students are.

1. Podio (project management and team management tool)
2. Leancanvas and Leandstartup to make business canvases of your model. A easy and efficient way to present your B plan.
3. Got familiar with Google Hangout nice way to participate in discussion with team members. Although their is limitation that maximum 10 person can participate at a time. But moreover you can record your hangout session and later can broadcast it on youtube. Is not it is great.
4. Designing your image on paper and then later scan it and fill color in it using Adobe Photoshop and Adope Illuminator nice way.
5. Getstudyroom.com here you can start a course separately and can make communities. White board concept is amazing to teach and getting learned by others.
6. Storm Board Real Time Brainstorming and collaboration using sticky notes.    
7.  Making effective presentation using Prezi.
8. Converting PPT to videos.
9. Brainstorming on google drive and creating google group.
10. Adding meeting in google calendar for fixing time of google hangout.
11. powtoon.com effective way of presentation 

So these were some of the learning flashes I learned during the course. I will update you with more.
I see great future of MOOC and I bet next big thing in education is online courses and online tools to study and collaborate.

Happy learning and sharing.