Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

The MOOC landscape has grown to include 9,400 courses, more than 500 MOOC-based credentials, and more than a dozen graduate degrees. The total number of MOOCs available to register for at any point of time is larger than ever, thanks to tweaks in the scheduling policy by MOOC providers. edX: 14 million users. XuetangX: 9.3

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2017

In 2013, MIT began offering online programs for working professionals to meet learners across the globe. Until lately, those online MIT courses have somewhat resembled so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs, says Clara Piloto, director of global programs at MIT Professional Education.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Colleges have tried to offer courses built around MOOC materials before—and it hasn’t always gone well. “It’s important to build that story to try to go public. They need to show a story of growth.” Will Colleges Buy It? Belsky, of Coursera, echoes that.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

Harvard’s business school launched its first online courses in 2013 in a unit it called HBX. That was at the height of the buzz around MOOCs, and about a year after the start of edX, the online course platform founded by Harvard and MIT. Kenny, a spokesperson for what was then HBX, told The Chronicle of Higher Education back in 2013.

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Mark Smithers

MARCH 12, 2013

This morning Richard Grusin posted a series of twenty tweets presenting a highly critical and thought provoking view of MOOCs. MOOCs are the bastard children of 1980s cyber-utopianism and post-1945 economic neoliberalism. Richard Grusin (@rgrusin) March 12, 2013. Richard Grusin (@rgrusin) March 12, 2013.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

MOOCs Recent virtual upstarts, MOOCs—massive open online courses—catapulted onto the global learning stage when Stanford University computer scientists Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig in 2011 came upon the bright idea of streaming their robotics lectures over the Internet. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Andrew Ng, Stanford University computer science professor, is the co-founder of Coursera, a for-profit company that partners with colleges and universities to provide free MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses). Here are the 210 offerings for 2013. Coursera isn''t the only MOOC organization to consider, of course. Coursera MOOC'

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. Innovations such as stackable non-degree credentials as an on-ramp and low-cost MOOC-based degrees from top universities are likely to only grow access to post-baccalaureate education.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. Well I missed out on writing a review for 2013 so I thought I’d get in reasonably early and write some predictions for what might happen in 2014. The MOOC backlash. Introduction.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

I became a Strava user in 2013, around the same time I became an online course designer. They were incredibly hardworking people, but the ones creating the most significant social impact in the world were also often too busy to finish a MOOC. In 2016, Strava users uploaded 304 million activities , logged 6.8 I could hardly blame them.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

At Coursera, we’ve seen registered users in China climb by more than 500 percent between 2013 and 2016, crossing the one million mark in 2015. When Coursera partnered with Guokr in 2013 , we were featured with only a few other partners. billion by 2018. Still, companies looking to do business in China face a “tangle of issues.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings. For me, it was pretty easy to imagine how I’d supplement the online pre-recorded lectures from my MOOC with discussions with Wesleyan students on the Zoom platform. My colleagues report similarly positive experiences.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The pair then started the company in January 2013. At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. These online courses are easy to sign up for, yet few students actually stick through and finish them.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

In 2013, Amherst considered experimenting with massive open online courses (also known as MOOCs) by forming a partnership with a nonprofit called edX. Eshleman pointed to a controversy a few years ago at Amherst College. The matter was put to a vote of the faculty, and it was struck down by a large majority.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

This unusual school started in Paris in 2013 -- it’s the passion project of French telecom billionaire Xavier Niel, who donated $100-million to the effort. Even MOOCs have a professor, even if it might be one for 100,000 people. Does your model at 42 work because there are so many MOOCs and other free courses online now?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Today is day four of the 2013 Global Education Conference. PROJECT: Student Visits-Exchanges-Collaborations PROJECT: MOOCs PROJECT: Google Helpouts PROJECT: Uniting Around One Social Cause PROJECT: International Co-Teaching A summary of today''s sessions is shown below in US-Eastern Standard Time (GMT/UTC-5).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Also notable is the continuing dip in the number of angel and seed deals, which have fallen from a peak of more than 100 in 2013 to less than half that number in 2018. Once upon a time, she notes, “MOOCs were supposed to displace higher education. Now many MOOCs are embedded within these institutions.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 14, 2013

After a Department of Education kick-off at the Reimagining Education Conference and initial practitioner learning opportunities by partners Scratch, the Afterschool Alliance, and Mozilla Webmakers, the Summer of Making and Connecting kicks into even higher gear with the launch of Maker Party 2013 and the Making Learning Connected mooc on June 15.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. I threw it all up there back in 2013. It looked like there was going to be a big realignment. Is it sustainable?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Schmidt, who is the director of learning innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, began issuing non-academic credentials for his team around 2013. Philipp Schmidt began thinking about the potential for blockchain in higher education long before the technology became a buzzword.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In fact, the number of deals has been on a steady downward slope since 2013. MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal. billion invested), since EdSurge began tracking U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Jerry Blumengarten The 2013 Global Education Conference starts today! I only wish I didn''t need to sleep, so I could attend them all live!" -Dr. Jessie Voigts "Thanks for providing this global forum that truly flattens the world of learning." If you haven''t attended our annual Global Education Conference, you are in for a treat!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Some nonprofit colleges that produce MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses, have experimented with different production methods. One tradeoff is that because the videos are more expensive to produce, updating them might come at a higher cost as well.

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Wired Campus

OCTOBER 19, 2015

It was 2011, and fewer than ten MOOCs existed worldwide. It has been four years since then, and according to a new report, the cumulative number of MOOCs has reached nearly 4,000. Compiled earlier this month by Dhawal Shah, founder of the MOOC aggregator Class Central, the report summarizes data on MOOCs from the past four years.

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Wired Campus

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

The percentage of institutions offering a MOOC seems to be leveling off, at around 14 percent, while suspicions persist that MOOCs will not generate money or reduce costs for universities—and are not, in fact, sustainable. Back then, 28 percent of respondents believed MOOCs were sustainable, while 26 percent thought they were not.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 10, 2013

We are excited to announce that the keynote sessions from the following conferences can now be watched on YouTube: School Leadership Summit 2013 , Homeschool Conference 2013 , STEMxCon 2013 , Library 2.012 and 2.013 , and the Global Education Conference 2012 and 2013. Tentative dates for Library 2.014. Love it all.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 17, 2013

MOOCs for Deeper Learning. Karen Fasimpaur highlighted an upcoming opportunity for educators to participate in a free, nine-week MOOC for deeper level learning. Kudos Here is some of the feedback we received from those of you who attended the 2013 School Leadership Summit. Inspiring Critical Conversations in the Classroom.

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Mark Smithers

DECEMBER 2, 2013

I’m not attending ASCILITE 2013 but I am following the Twitter stream closely and occasionally comment into the stream. No doubt much of Kennedy’s thinking is informed by the University of Melbourne’s Coursera MOOCs that have very large numbers of students and, consequently, very little teacher to student interaction. Would it work?

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

June 28, 2013 The Prophets In Your Land September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! .” I have worked (and continue to work) on the idea that my job is to elevate others and aspire to be better because of the influence of those with whom I connect.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

If you haven''t participated in one of my other massive, peer-to-peer conferences , they are a blast (they are more than MOOCs, really, maybe HOOPs? We''ve started accepting proposals for the inaugural School Leadership Summit on March 28th-- 24 great sessions have already accepted! Highly Open Online and Participative conferences?).

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 8, 2016

September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC June 28, 2013 The Prophets In Your Land December 17, 2015 3 Questions for the Visionary Leader November 19, 2015 “Systems Thinking” and “Systems Doing” March 29, 2016 Checklist or Art Form? Here is the first episode.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 14, 2013

After a Department of Education kick-off at the Reimagining Education Conference and initial practitioner learning opportunities by partners Scratch, the Afterschool Alliance, and Mozilla Webmakers, the Summer of Making and Connecting kicks into even higher gear with the launch of Maker Party 2013 and the Making Learning Connected mooc on June 15.

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Wired Campus

MAY 13, 2015

And now, a MOOC. The University of California at Irvine plans to offer a four-week MOOC based on the FX television series The Strain, which follows the spread of a disease with the “hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism.” If people want to spend their entertainment time learning,” she says, “I’m all for it.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Join me Thursday, February 28th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with return guest Roger Schank to talk about his book Teaching Minds : How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools , why MOOCs won''t save schools or the world, and why everything you think you know about education is wrong. psid=2013-02-28.1721.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Mark Smithers

MARCH 19, 2013

This is the invited presentation that I gave at the launch of the SAFFIRE project at the University of Canberra on Monday 18 March, 2013. I considered issues around MOOCs and then other disruptors which may, in fact, have more impact such as OER, open badges and social professional reputation.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

MOOCs get social. Carolyn Rosé, an assistant professor in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, has been exploring ways to add social engagement to MOOCs since 2013. In summer 2016 Rosé and her team used Bazaar to run a team-based project for a MOOC offered by the Smithsonian Institution.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 4, 2018

June 28, 2013 The Prophets In Your Land September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! The opportunities in front of us only matter if we take advantage of them. January 19, 2017 Is leadership an innovative endeavour? IMMOOC December 27, 2014 School vs. Learning March 8, 2016 Finding the Good Problems.

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