This site uses cookies to improve your experience. To help us insure we adhere to various privacy regulations, please select your country/region of residence. If you do not select a country, we will assume you are from the United States. Select your Cookie Settings or view our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Used for the proper function of the website
Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
Cookie Settings
Cookies and similar technologies are used on this website for proper function of the website, for tracking performance analytics and for marketing purposes. We and some of our third-party providers may use cookie data for various purposes. Please review the cookie settings below and choose your preference.
Strictly Necessary: Used for the proper function of the website
Performance/Analytics: Used for monitoring website traffic and interactions
MOOCs are just digital versions of the much maligned large group lecture, virtual flashcards are simply another tool for useless rote memorization, and online textbooks are just one more problematically unidirectional method of transmitting information without cultivating learning.
edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. Click here to see all of them.) For example, this young man from Mongolia.
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. In these cases their deals are placed in the “All other” category.) Source: EdSurge.
Amongst our standout articles and the themes they evoke: a Stanford University researcher on edtech and equity, an entrepreneur on growth mindset, and a look into Chromebooks by the president of a iBoss Cybersecurity. Amy Ahearn, senior innovation associate at +Acumen , thinks Slack could add a human touch to online courses.
And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. Primary and secondary schools are a battleground between iPads and Chromebooks, it seems. Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population.
The general success of Google as a platform model (Classroom, Music, YouTube, Search, Chromebooks, Chrome OS, etc.). MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. Ease of publishing (e.g., blogs, social media, podcasting) to promote conversation and thinking around what’s possible in education. Narrowed (overly-narrow?) Robotics in the classroom.
” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. ” “ How Google Chromebooks conquered schools.”
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Investor Fred Wilson on “ Chromebooks in K–12.” Raise $146.1 million in venture funding; ask people to work for you for free.
They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s Edsurge’s “exclusive” on the news that Android apps will soon be able on Chromebooks. .” Here’s the WaPo headline : “Girls outscore boys on inaugural national test of technology, engineering skills.”
MOOCs are out. Chromebooks. .” The Business of Job Training. Via NPR : “In Effort To Court Drivers, Lyft Offering Education Discounts.” ” It’s a partnership with Guild Education. More via Techcrunch. Bootcamps are in. Or something. This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines. ” asks Forbes.
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” ” “ Chromebooks destroyed Apple in back-to-school shopping,” says MarketWatch. Education in the Courts. Or something.
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?” ” But if you look closer, it’s not a MOOC; it’s just an online class at MIT.
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” NPR on MOOC Micromasters. Via the AP : “How Google Chromebooks conquered schools.” ” asks Edsurge. “How One Provider Taps 2,500 Volunteers.”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Inside Higher Ed on online education at Simmons College. More on MOOC and online education research in the research section below. Luster lost to Chromebooks, apparently. “ EdX To Retire Foundational 6.002x Platform,” Class Central reports. ” asks NPR.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). More Google PR, this time from The Verge : “ Google is adding ARCore support to the Chromebook Tab 10 with Classroom updates.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Education Dept. ” More via Inside Higher Ed.
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. Google has released the latest generation of Chromebooks.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A glimpse : “In China ’s Silicon Valley, Edtech Starts at the ‘MOOC Times Building’ ” Via Class Central : “By The Numbers: MOOCs in 2018.” It’s like the MOOC crap all over again. ” asks The Atlantic.
” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “Why America’s MOOC pioneers have abandoned ship” by Jonathan Rees. “ MOOCs Are Dead. Department of Education could send down in the coming months for falling short of testing enough qualified students last school year.”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” From the press release : “ MOOCs and books initiative launched by Springer and Federica Weblearning.” The Executive Director of HathiTrust responds.
.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s probably better for them than stupid worksheets on their Chromebooks. Class Central writes that “ Y Combinator’s Startup School MOOC To Give Out $10,000 to 100 Companies.” ” JFC. Let kids have a friggin’ snow day.
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. The Year of the MOOC". The New York Times declared 2012 “ the Year of the MOOC.”
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Responses to last week’s news about Western Governors University and the audit of its competency-based offerings: Via NPR : “Who Is A College Teacher, Anyway? ” “Caution: Chromebooks ,” writes Gary Stager. Upgrades and Downgrades.
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be,” says Rolin Moe. ” The Verge covers the blog post : “ Google is equipping more rural school buses with Wi-Fi and Chromebooks.”
Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “The Future of MOOCs Might Not Be Free ,” suggests Education Week’s Market Brief with an observation that many of us made back in 2012. ” More in the sports section below on falsifying college athletes’ test scores.
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Online education platform Coursera has set a goal of offering 15 to 20 degree programs by the end of 2019. ” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s Rick Levin on the Evolution of MOOCs and Microcredentials.”
We organize all of the trending information in your field so you don't have to. Join 34,000+ users and stay up to date on the latest articles your peers are reading.
You know about us, now we want to get to know you!
Let's personalize your content
Let's get even more personalized
We recognize your account from another site in our network, please click 'Send Email' below to continue with verifying your account and setting a password.
Let's personalize your content