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Will the Pandemic Lead More Colleges to Offer Credit for MOOCs? Coursera is Pushing for It.

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Since March, Coursera has allowed any college to request free access to its library of course content for any of its students to use, with a free version of what it calls Coursera for Campus. That’s because it might make the idea of adopting MOOC content acceptable to professors “skeptical about the integrity of online education,” he adds.

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Makerspace Educators Need Professional Development, Too

EdTech Magazine

As a group, women said they were the least comfortable with programming and prototyping. In past MOOCs, authors engaged in Twitter chats, had guest speakers via YouTube, prompted educators to share their reflections through blogs and Facebook groups and challenged participants to create a weekly visual of their learning.

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Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

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Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. This means giving people small chambers of engagement where they can interact with a smaller, more manageable and yet still diverse groups. These design choices have noticeable implications.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts.

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Technology in Schools – Future Changes in the Classroom.

EdTech4Beginners

The appearance of massive open online courses (MOOCs) mean that it’s possible to study film-making online among other niche topics. These students are connected through media-rich forums and group projects. As the usage of cloud applications increases, more students will be learning skills that are vital to the workplace.

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Coursera Raises $130 Million as Colleges Turn to Online Courses for the Fall

Edsurge

Previous investors Kleiner Perkins, SEEK Group, Learn Capital, SuRo Capital Corp, and G Squared also participated. It offers access to Coursera’s online library to workforce development agencies that want to reskill recently unemployed workers. This latest deal gives the Mountain View, Calif.-based based company an estimated $2.5

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Why Most Ivies Offer Few Online Degrees—And What’s Happening to Change It

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Some in this elite group of colleges—specifically Princeton and Yale—offer no online degree at all. And in the past ten years these colleges have been active in offering so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, which are free or low-cost courses, usually for no official credit. What, I wondered, accounts for the reticence?

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