MOOC Online Learning Seminar 
Edsurge
JULY 9, 2018
Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. This type of structure is not revolutionary.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
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. It’s depressing shorthand for skepticism about online education in general. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. This skepticism is not unwarranted.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2020
For me, it was pretty easy to imagine how I’d supplement the online pre-recorded lectures from my MOOC with discussions with Wesleyan students on the Zoom platform. Professors all over the country have been sharing tips on making their online educational environments as interactive and potent as possible.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Small-scale seminars can be intimate and powerful.
Neo LMS
JUNE 16, 2020
As members, educators can take part in events, forums, seminars, training and more. Online courses, including certificates and degree programs, make it easy to learn on any schedule. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities.
Bryan Alexander
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
How can colleges and universities share courses online? The answer has been “yes” for some years, and I’m not talking about MOOCs or University of Phoenix. This year a new cluster of CIC upper-level humanities seminar cross-campus teaching has begun. It’s a form of inter-institutional collaboration.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
According to our top Next newsletter contributors, the topics of student debt, innovative practices in community colleges, and online learning design continue to grab readers’ attention. SLACK ON: MOOCs get knocked for lacking the intimate discussions and organic student interactions that accompany college classes IRL.
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