Edsurge
OCTOBER 12, 2017
Udacity helped popularize the idea of offering college-level courses online to anyone for free, a format known as MOOCs (for Massive Open Online Courses). But this week a Udacity official called MOOCs “dead,” leading to questions about what that means for one of the company’s offerings (which still include free MOOCs).
Learning with 'e's
MARCH 6, 2015
Downes was speaking at the ELI 4th International Conference on e-Learning and Distance Education held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. And this was exactly the guiding principle of the earliest MOOCs. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. ELI_2015 connectivism education learning MOOC PLE Stephen Downes Technology'
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
In a telephone interview, Phil Hill, edtech guru and co-publisher of the widely followed e-Literate blog , acknowledged that “the LMS is not only part of the university’s core infrastructure, but it also allows faculty and students to use technology creatively in the classroom.” The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)
Wired Campus
MAY 13, 2015
And now, a MOOC. The University of California at Irvine plans to offer a four-week MOOC based on the FX television series The Strain, which follows the spread of a disease with the “hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism.” Perhaps surprisingly, Ms. ” Some people view “edutainment” as a dirty word, Ms. “If
Edsurge
JUNE 19, 2020
E-commerce purchases of all types have surged. This is already evident in the latest national job-market data, which shows a 15 percent unemployment rate for high school graduates with no college and 13 percent for those with some college or an associate degree—compared to 7 percent for individuals with a bachelor’s or higher.
Edsurge
JUNE 30, 2016
Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 The Chinese Ministry of Education is encouraging the growth of local MOOCs, with a policy that sets targets of 1,000 from Chinese universities by 2017 and 3,000 by 2020. billion by 2018.
Learning with 'e's
AUGUST 14, 2017
This implies that campus based higher education may not be able to improve at a similar rate, due to its inertia and stagnation. Yes, more students than ever are enrolled on MOOCs (p. 122), but 'completion rates remain dismal'. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.
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