Edsurge
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Students can communicate peer-to-peer and also engage instructors directly in text, voice, and video, recorded for later access or run immediately in real-time. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) Now in its seventh year, MOOCs crossed the 100 million learner mark, recently hitting 101 million.
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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TeachThought - Learn better.
OCTOBER 26, 2015
Asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. There is so much great content already published and accessible, that curation matters as much as creation.
Bryan Alexander
MARCH 5, 2016
Another persistent trend is challenges caused by growing user numbers and activites, including both generating and demanding more data, online behavior abuses, security threats, and challenges about accessibility. Another problem less well discussed is the challenge of accessibility. Can’t U’s use tech the same way?”
Learning with 'e's
MARCH 20, 2014
He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and currently serves as the editor of the influential online open access journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ( IRRODL ). Providing access was then and still remains my biggest motivation. We also wanted to find an open access publisher.
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” Mathematics lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology.
Mark Smithers
AUGUST 24, 2015
In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. It’s no wonder there is no widespread adoption of e-learning and edtech across the institution. And the everything else bit is rated much higher in terms of career progression. So my position has changed completely. .-
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