Edsurge
NOVEMBER 9, 2021
Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. The problem, he argues, is that providers of MOOCs, including Coursera and edX, require registration to get to the materials. Downes has a special relationship to MOOCs. Their course inspired both the term “MOOCs” and a whole new industry.
Edsurge
MAY 30, 2019
He’s the guy who coined the term MOOC, short for Massive Open Online Course, which then was a reference to multiplayer video games. Sit in enough faculty meetings, meet with enough leadership, and it becomes clear that it’s all about money. You say in your tweet that faculty meetings today are all about enrollment and money.
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Edsurge
APRIL 8, 2019
Chip Paucek, CEO and co-founder of 2U “When we think about the trajectory of a learner, from college to a masters program to a MOOC or to a bootcamp, there is a lot of opportunity for universities to play a role across that spectrum and reinvent themselves,” Paucek tells EdSurge in an interview. “If It’s like our anniversary,” says Sommer.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 16, 2021
The university also announced that the issue of the new nonprofit will be discussed at MIT’s September 22 faculty meeting. Since 2U started in 2008, it has fronted more than $1 billion to colleges and university partners. 2U is one of the largest of the so-called OPMs, or Online Program Managers.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Vive la MOOC Révolution. In October of this year, Clarissa Shen, Udacity’s Chief Operating Officer, called MOOCs “ a failed product.”
Edsurge
JULY 20, 2017
Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. Before becoming too beholden to the particular features (or limitations) of a technology platform, try to think bigger and more creatively about how you can meet the needs of your learners. A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018. In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.
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