Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

What lessons can be learned from the rise and pivot of MOOCs, those large-scale online courses that proponents said would disrupt higher education? At the start of the MOOC trend in 2012, the promise was that the free online courses could reach students who could not afford or get access to other forms of higher education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

“What’s the completion rate for your online courses?” As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I count. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2023

The deal was contentious because edX had long touted its nonprofit status and independence from capitalist pressures as it convinced more than 150 colleges — many of them highly selective ones — to join in as partners to offer free and low-cost courses online. In fact, a New York Times piece declared 2012 “ the year of the MOOC.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. The problem, he argues, is that providers of MOOCs, including Coursera and edX, require registration to get to the materials. Lots of sites require you to log in to gain access to content, right?

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2020

Large-scale courses known as MOOCs were invented to get free or low-cost education to people who could not afford or get access to traditional options. Duke University was one of the first institutions to draw on MOOCs in response to the novel coronavirus. Other MOOC providers are making similar offers.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Colleges have been searching for new ways to make use of the massive open online courses they created ever since the fad died down several years ago. To understand the concept, it’s important to remember how much MOOCs have changed since they emerged about six years ago to great fanfare.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

On the other side of the spectrum are countries where most of the population can only dream about higher education, because only a few — the elite — have access to it. MOOCs: high aspirations and higher disappointments. One thing that MOOCs enthusiasts seemed to forget is that. This whitish part is very small, though.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But in recent years a new type of online degree has emerged, born of partnerships between elite universities and the platforms that support MOOCs, such as Coursera, FutureLearn, and edX. Since then, more and more degrees have run through MOOC channels. This has essentially created a new round of hype about MOOCs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In fact, the country has no institution that is approved to deliver online degrees, even though it has moved rapidly to embrace MOOCs, free or low-cost online courses offered to millions throughout the country. advances in online pedagogy, such as flipped classrooms and MOOCs. MOOCs have proven wildly popular in China.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

On the other side of the spectrum are countries where most of the population can only dream about higher education, because only a few — the elite — have access to it. MOOCs: high aspirations and higher disappointments. One thing that MOOCs enthusiasts seemed to forget is that. “ This whitish part is very small, though.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

When two Stanford University professors started Coursera in 2012, the focus was on building free online courses to bring teaching from elite colleges out to the world. So Coursera sees a new business opportunity: to sell the courses it developed to colleges that want to use them as part of for-credit courses for their own students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2017

I took one of the very first MOOCs, and back then the videos, assignments, and certificates were all free. As MOOC providers focussed on finding a business model, they started putting certain aspects of the experience behind a paywall, hoping to get more people to pay. That was in 2011. These typically cost hundreds of dollars.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. Industry reports and instructional designers alike typically report that only between 5 to 15 percent of students who start free open online courses end up earning a certificate. Make students put skin in the game.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Since the New York Times named 2012 the year of massive open online courses (MOOCs), millions have flocked to platforms offering them such as edX and Coursera. While these online courses have seen massive enrollment, perspectives on their impact have been decidedly mixed. Ekowo: Why this MOOC? George Siemens.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 27, 2022

Some of these are: different approaches to teaching adapted to students’ needs, developed ICT skills, professional development for teachers, attempts to bridge the digital divide, improvement of resource accessibility, funding and curriculum changes. Exploring three opportunities for education created by the pandemic.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Students all over the world have access to knowledge, resources, and experts to help them learn in rich ways and accomplish great things. Participants in my current free online course, The Goal-Minded Teacher MOOC ( #EduGoalsMOOC ), designed learning missions this past week to inspire their learners.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

The nonprofit MOOC platform edX, originally started by MIT and Harvard University at a time when pundits predicted large-scale online courses could replace college for some people, is trying yet another new approach, launching the first of what it calls a “MicroBachelors” program.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 26, 2017

But for all the sophistication of the Internet age, the idea of getting top quality college courses online for free, and using them for credits in the traditional college system, is only now being tested. Online college courses have become commonplace, with over five million students estimated to be taking online college courses now.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

But SEEK Group , an Australian operator of online educational and employment services, has doubled down on massive open online courses. Less than a week after its announced lead in Coursera’s $103 million Series E round , SEEK is at it again with £50 million (about $65 million) in London-based MOOC platform FutureLearn. audiences).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Wesley Engers has an unusual hobby: beta testing online courses from well-known colleges and universities. He doesn’t get paid, but he helps improve the quality of courses by catching mistakes in quizzes and pointing out befuddling bits of video lectures, which can then be clarified before professors release the course to students. “I

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Dozens of colleges and universities are taking courses in healthcare and medicine online—and making them free or low-cost—with massive online course platforms. More than a dozen universities are offering Coursera’s new healthcare courses. Courses in healthcare and medicine have been available online for years.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

In the past year or so there's been a flurry of announcements from the big MOOC providers involving new degree programs based around their online courses. Earlier this year, for instance, Coursera announced six new degrees , including the first-ever MOOC-based Bachelors. Quite the opposite.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

News that Arizona State University and edX have archived 10 of their 14 Global Freshman Academy courses raises questions about the viability and purpose of credit-eligible MOOCs. She suggests that first-year students may need more academic and social supports and wraparound services than a la carte MOOCs provide.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. He quickly began supplementing his education with online courses from Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. verified certificates from Coursera and completed 11 social entrepreneurship courses from +Acumen. complete multiple MOOCs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Last year, MOOC providers announced about 30 new online degrees. This wave of activity and spending by MOOC providers and universities gave me a feeling of deja vu: it reminded me of the 2012 MOOC hype. That is why I called the rise of online degrees the second wave of MOOC-hype and 2018, the year of MOOC-based degrees.

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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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Coursera started with a mission to give the general public free access to courses from expensive colleges. Now it is selling all the course content developed for those free courses to colleges that want to use the materials in their own campus programs. At least a few colleges had already purchased those licensing plans.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2020

Coursera, which provides online courses to higher-ed institutions, businesses and government agencies, has raised $130 million in a Series F round led by NEA. Dubbed “ Coursera for Campus ,” this offering includes about 4,000 courses created by 150 colleges and universities. (A But its time on the throne proved to be short-lived.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

This year, educational institutions are using blockchain for accessible record keeping. Virtual classrooms are online spaces that allow students who don’t have access to a traditional school setting to interact with teachers and even classmates. They’re meant to be supplementary sessions to those who are already taking actual courses.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

This gap between the need and available educational services has prompted calls for innovative ways to improve access to quality educational resources. Much to our surprise, over 1,500 people from around the world registered for the course — and, to date, are actively engaged in creating free, open resources for adult learners.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. It has the most users of any provider of MOOCs (as the large-scale online courses are sometimes called), claiming more than 77 million learners. EdX is like a distant No.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

You could call extension schools the original MOOCs. Thanks to a recent push towards online courses, Harvard University’s Extension School now has more students than the rest of Harvard combined. Well, unless you count the students in MOOCs, those free online courses, which are offered through a different division of the university.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

With such broad interpretations of AI, Andrew Ng wants to simply things for the average person in a new course called AI for Everyone. The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He He left the company in 2014.)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

A majority of online students visit campus to access services and support, or to attend events and in-person courses, in a true blending of online and in-person. At Northeastern University, many of our 17,000 online and hybrid students access our campus network with locations in Boston, Charlotte, Seattle, Silicon Valley and Toronto.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Has the MOOC revolution come and gone? Or will the principles of the MOOC movement continue to influence higher ed? On Tuesday, April 10 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning? How many MOOCs have you signed up for and how many have you taken?”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

But it also emerged from what he calls a “dark time” at his university, when budget cuts seemed certain to reduce the number of professors in his department, thus restricting the courses it could offer. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says. We’ve had a lot of budget issues,” he says. “It

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

In my 2014 book “ MOOCS Essentials ,” I reflected on each aspect of the residential learning process and how developers of massive open online courses were trying to replicate those experiences virtually, or come up with ways to keep students engaged without direct teacher-student interaction.

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