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Are SPOCs a better option for online education than MOOCs?

Neo LMS

If we put it on a black to white spectrum, we can group countries into at least three shades: whitish, grayish, and blackish. MOOCs: high aspirations and higher disappointments. The above idea is a noble one and massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs , are thought to be the solution to worldwide access to higher education.

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Are SPOCs a better option for online education than MOOCs?

Neo LMS

If we put it on a black to white spectrum, we can group countries into at least three shades: whitish, greyish, and blackish. MOOCs: high aspirations and higher disappointments. The above idea is a noble one and massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs , are thought to be the solution to worldwide access to higher education.

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Technology in Schools – Future Changes in the Classroom.

EdTech4Beginners

They’ve aided the beginnings of ‘flippedclassrooms – where students view video lectures or read background material at home and spend their class time being guided through exercises, projects, or discussions on the material. These students are connected through media-rich forums and group projects. The Future Is Social.

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A Case For Flipping Learning—Without Videos

Edsurge

They come primed to discuss those things and learn in classroom,” says Barba. “We We are moving direct instruction to the individual space and doing active learning to the group space, and that active learning is more difficult.” These days the professor considers herself an advocate of “the non-video school of MOOCs.”

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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?

Edsurge

For example, most of the enrolled students in fully asynchronous MOOCs are adults, and even in this context, completion can be challenging. The size of synchronous learning groups is also an important consideration because smaller groups allow for more discussion.

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Coursera’s Rick Levin On the Evolution of MOOCs and Microcredentials

Edsurge

EdSurge talked with Rick Levin, CEO of Coursera (and former president of one of those big-name universities, Yale) about how the mega-courses known as MOOCs have changed in the five years since the start of their hype-filled debut. It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. How’s that going?

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False frontiers

Learning with 'e's

Increasingly, traditional educational spaces are being revised, replacing rigid rows of seats with 'group friendly' clusters or simply enabling all room furniture to be moved and reconfigured in whatever way users see fit. The Flipped approach ensures that the classroom is no longer the only space where formal learning can take place.

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