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How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching

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After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many learners as possible, and in many ways they are more like books (digital ones, packed with videos and interactive quizzes) than courses. One of the newest blockbuster MOOCs is The Science of Well-Being, offered by a Yale University professor.

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MOOC Pioneer Coursera Tries a New Push: Selling Courseware to Colleges

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Meanwhile, Coursera is opening up its technology platform to any college to use for free to deliver course materials on their own campuses. Colleges have tried to offer courses built around MOOC materials before—and it hasn’t always gone well. It’s important to build that story to try to go public. They need to show a story of growth.”

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It’s 2020: Have Digital Learning Innovations Trends Changed?

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The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology. The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design.

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What’s the Right Price for an Online Degree?

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As prices rose at most post-secondary institutions over the last decades, tuition at these colleges fell. It wasn’t until providers of so-called MOOCs—massive open online courses—entered into online partnership with high-ranking colleges about a decade ago that serious discounting took off.

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Why Some Investors Say Edtech ‘Doom and Gloom’ is Overhyped

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There are two main reasons for optimism in the education technology sector specifically: the sustainability and evolution of business models and an abundance of talent. the government set aside [about] $190 billion under the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) aid package. Just in the U.S.,

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Remote Work May Transform Higher Education. But Will Printers and Alexa Undermine Its Privacy?

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So declares the newest forward-looking publication from the higher-ed information technology association EDUCAUSE, “ 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon Report: Information Security Edition.” Postsecondary and Secondary Credentials ” report. The nonprofit tallies 967,734 unique secondary and post-secondary credentials in the United States.

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

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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. The Ivies are all risk-averse,” says Peggy McCready, former associate vice provost for technology and digital initiatives at UPenn Libraries.

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