Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

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. The average completion rate for MOOCs (including the ones I design) hovers between 5-15 percent. This skepticism is not unwarranted.

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

I was expected to lecture, give tutorials and maybe seminars or laboratories depending on the topic. Personally I didn’t mind if my own content was open access but others were concerned that their material would be ‘stolen’ or that learners would be able to get something for nothing. Now I disagree. It’s simply too complicated.

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

I was expected to lecture, give tutorials and maybe seminars or laboratories depending on the topic. Personally I didn’t mind if my own content was open access but others were concerned that their material would be ‘stolen’ or that learners would be able to get something for nothing. Now I disagree. It’s simply too complicated.

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E-rate Learning LMS Course 32

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Small-scale seminars can be intimate and powerful. It never does.

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MOOC Education Coursera Course 205

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 50

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. ” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 17, 2016

If you’re new to the topic, or curious, read these slides , which are much more accessible than the preceding sentence suggests. Face-to-face instruction was the privilege of the 1%, while the middle class made do with distance learning, and everyone else had versions of MOOCs. If not, skip to the next part.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

A must-read on Trump University from Ars Technica : “Trump University and the art of the get-rich seminar.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”)

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Trump University promised that the instructors for the real-estate and business seminars were “hand-picked” by Trump. Funnily enough, many of the very publications who consistently made fun of the offerings from Trump University rarely offer any critical analysis of the structure or content of MOOCs or coding bootcamps.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 19, 2018

“ Digital Promise Global has received a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to address equitable access to computational education in public schools,” Education Week reports. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Devonshire Investors has acquired MOOC startup NovoEd.

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