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It’s common these days to hear that free online mega-courses, called MOOCs, failed to deliver on their promise of educating the masses. Now, one of the first professors to try out MOOCs says he has a way to reuse bits and pieces of the courses created during that craze in a way that might deliver on the initial promise.
The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptivelearning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. Delivering these models to a differentiated population of educators and learners requires an adaptive approach.
Somewhere between our collective obsession with predictive analytics and infatuation with adaptivelearning, higher education wonks and practitioners are making time to deconstruct the quality attributes of online courses. Whitney Kilgore ( @whitneykilgore ) is the chief academic officer at iDesign.
Nevertheless, computer science education, along with STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) continued to be promoted this year, often framed as something students should pursue instead of “ liberal arts.” “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. .”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. Because “Pornhub cares.”
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” Teachers can bring STEM lessons to life through this immersive learning and take students on biodiversity journeys through Africa, Asia, the Amazon, and more.”
Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The English-language-learning company has raised $608 million total. You must be so proud.
In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptivelearning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.”
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptivelearning into OER.” The biggest growth occurred at the graduate level, but despite years of investment in attracting more American students to STEM, that expansion was not homegrown.”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “That Hilarious Tweet About an Instructor’s Big Mistake? ” Via Rutgers Today : “Is There a STEM Worker Shortage ? ” There’s more research on for-profits in the research section below.
He believes the future of education means all STEM, no arts and no humanities. ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. Adeptemy , an adaptivelearning company, has raised $3.48 Via the NY Mag : “ Potential Trump Science Adviser Says 90 Percent of U.S. Colleges Will Disappear.”
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