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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. The six-week long MOOC will touch on topics including open educational resources (OER), open pedagogy and practice, open knowledge and open research. What won’t it cover?
It started out as a question about OER, but has moved on to a conversation about the purposes of open more generally. Empirically speaking, it’s approximately one million times easier to take Python for Everybody on Coursera than it is to install, configure, troubleshoot, and run all these tools yourself. Really think about it.
University of Houston System via Coursera. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. Commonwealth Education Trust via Coursera. University of Oregon via Coursera. University of California, Irvine via Coursera. University of London International Programmes via Coursera. University of Michigan via Coursera.
However, most people remain unaware of OER. He recommended an Indiana framework project he helped build, along with Stanford’s NovoEd platform , which might be better than Coursera in terms of creating an ecology of learning. Bonk mentioned some early wiki work ( Wikibooks ) where noncredentialed users were prevalent.
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godfather” of OER and Chief Academic Officer of Lumen Learning), trace their roots here. 4:00PM: DistruptED: Who Are the Real Disruptors in Higher Ed and The Future of Work with Louise Rogers (TES Global), Chip Paucek (2U), Dennis Yang (Udemy), Rick Levin (Coursera), Vish Makhijani (Udacity) Wednesday.
” Coursera highlights its mentors – its volunteer mentors – on its blog. Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “About That Cengage OER Survey.” Raise $146.1 million in venture funding; ask people to work for you for free. SRI has released a report on “ maker educators.”
” IHE blogger Joshua Kim offers “25 Million Reasons Why LinkedIn / Microsoft Will Buy Coursera.” ” Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “ Top Hat ’s OER Announcement: Doubling down on faculty engagement.” ” “ Cyber Charters in at Least 5 States Face Closure.
The US Department of Education released its “ #GoOpenDistrict Launch Packet ,” encouraging schools to use OER. ” That’s the headline describing a conversation between Recode and Coursera ’s Daphne Koller. .” Me, I cannot stop looking at that hand-clapping Vine. ” Rebrand. .”
I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. “ OER-Enabled Pedagogy ” by Lumen Learning’s David Wiley. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. Not sure why this is called a MOOC.
Tagged on: March 8, 2017 New Solutions—Not Just New Winners—In the Curriculum Marketplace | New America → Innovative uses of OER offer an entirely new way of answering the question of how we solve for inefficiencies in the curriculum marketplace, rather than just advocating for new winners. Case in point: Chrome extensions gone bad.
At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Coursera has raised over $310 million. This “reverse engineering,” the publishers claimed, violated copyright. Investors continued to fund MOOCs nonetheless.
He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. ” From Lumen Learning’s David Wiley : “Some Lessons Learned Supporting OER Adoption.” According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.”
Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s First Ivy League Degree: An Online Master’s From the University of Pennsylvania.” ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.). Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via the CBC : “ Sesame Street to enter U.S.
His wife is also the founder of the OER organization CK12. Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing the Global MBA from Macquarie University.” Some of Khosla’s education investments are listed here. Because “open.”). ” The Business of Financial Aid. SDG Academy has joined edX. I Believe Her Accuser.”
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Coursera has a new CEO: Jeff Maggioncalda. ” “ OER Researchers Don’t Disaggregate Data on Diverse Students. Entangled Solutions’ consultants Deborah Seymour and Michael B.
From the Coursera blog : “Coursera pilots a new course format.” ” More via I Programmer on Coursera ’s decision to remove old courses from its platform. .” ” More via I Programmer on Coursera ’s decision to remove old courses from its platform. ” Amazingly dumb.
“ Coursera ’s 2018 Revenue Estimated to be $140 million,” Class Central estimates. Via The Hill : “ Karl Rove and David Axelrod partner for online class on winning elections” – an online class on the Masterclass platform, that is. Indiana University has joined edX. What’s next?”
In Move Towards More Online Degrees, Coursera Introduces Its First Bachelor ’s.” ” “Coursera and other purveyors of massive open online courses supposedly signaled the end of traditional credentials and, as some told it, universities. Edsurge on the business of OER. Vive la MOOC révolution.
Coursera announces on its blog that it’s expanding to Brazil. Here’s Coursera arguing “Why Everyone Should Learn Sales.” Stephen Downes and David Wiley debate OER : “The Cost Trap, Part 3” by David Wiley. “If We Talked About the Internet Like We Talk About OER” by Stephen Downes.
Via Recode : “ Coursera has ousted several senior executives along with many rank-and-file staffers.” The company is co-founded by Nick Ducoff, formerly of the OER textbook startup Boundless. ” From the HR Department. ” (See also: Altschool, and just remember: venture capital and education do not mix.).
Remember in 2012 when Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller said in her TED Talk that her company’s goal was to “take the best courses from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free”? .” MOOCs are not particularly "open." The College Affordability Crisis.
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” Via the Coursera blog : “Announcing Coursera for Governments & Nonprofits.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.
” According to this Techcrunch article , MOOCs like Udacity and Coursera weren’t working out for AirBnB so now it is “running its own internal university to teach data science.” Via Edsurge : “OER Pioneer David Wiley Predicts All Community Colleges Will Dump Traditional Textbooks By 2024.”
Coursera has a new partner , the insurance company AXA , which will offer some 300 Coursera classes to its employees. His wife is the co-founder of OER organization CK–12.). ” Campus Technology rewrites the press release that Examity will be used for identify verification and proctoring in edX classes.
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