Edsurge
JANUARY 15, 2019
Once upon a time, she notes, “MOOCs were supposed to displace higher education. Now many MOOCs are embedded within these institutions. And despite the talk of technology “disrupting” higher education, colleges and universities have proven more resilient and flexible than they often get credit for. The Bellevue, Wash.-based
Learning with 'e's
OCTOBER 29, 2012
Various commentators suggest that as much as seventy percent of learning occurs outside of formal educational settings (Cofer, 2000; Dobbs, 2000; Cross, 2006). 2006) Informal Learning: Rediscovering the natural pathways that inspire innovation and performance. 2000) Informal Workplace Learning. Practice Application Brief No.
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Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2022
When I worked at Microsoft back in 2002, our team basically invented the idea of Google Classroom (it was called Microsoft Class Server), but we were twelve years too early and the product disappeared by 2006. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.
Edsurge
MAY 14, 2017
Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. For independent learners, platforms like MEDSKL and MRU present free course opportunities similar to those of MOOCs, but with a few distinctions.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Blackboard, however, really upset folks in 2006 when it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against its competitor Desire2Learn (D2L), one day after receiving the patent for "Internet-based education support system and methods. Unfathomable. Impenetrable. Incomprehensible. Inexplicable. Unknowable.
Iterating Toward Openness
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? In 2006 I described and recommended the community-based model to support sustainable OER-based pedagogy. We are focused on the advantages of OER-enabled pedagogy. “I believe we must ground our open thinking in the idea of open licenses.
Bryan Alexander
APRIL 12, 2016
For more background on containers Jim recommended Marc Levinson’s book The Box (2006). He criticized the allure of universal solutions and totalizing narratives (the LMS, the MOOC). Pedagogically this is a useful way to get students to think about how hosting (and the web) works. A: Jim hoped so.
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