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Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019

Edsurge

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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Assessment strategies in higher education- What are formative and summative approaches in student assessment?

Linways Technologies

To do so, they need to have a proper assessment strategy in place. In the absence of a clear mapping between program outcomes and assessment tools, student achievement of program outcomes is inaccurate and unreliable. Conscious efforts need to be made to bring application skills or higher cognitive skills to the assessment.

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A trend to watch: teaching classes from one campus to another

Bryan Alexander

The answer has been “yes” for some years, and I’m not talking about MOOCs or University of Phoenix. ITEM: Over the past several years a group of small colleges, members of the Council of Independent Colleges ( CIC ), experimented with sharing upper-level humanities seminars with each other. Here are some examples.

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Coursera’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix—and LinkedIn

Edsurge

It’s part of a continued evolution of MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses. Serving the 300 million people expected to enter higher education in the next year with classroom sizes found in typical college seminars, he adds, is simply “not possible.” I didn’t even know their names—though the TAs might have.”.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

I was expected to lecture, give tutorials and maybe seminars or laboratories depending on the topic. Sadly the credential has traditionally been based on a time served model coupled with a an assessment of knowledge and understanding. Now I disagree. It’s simply too complicated. When I started as an academic life was easy.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

I was expected to lecture, give tutorials and maybe seminars or laboratories depending on the topic. Sadly the credential has traditionally been based on a time served model coupled with a an assessment of knowledge and understanding. Now I disagree. It’s simply too complicated. When I started as an academic life was easy.

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