Edsurge
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He But the course won’t be offered through a university, like many of the other online classes on Coursera. He left the company in 2014.)
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice."
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 28, 2018
Massive open online course providers gained momentum and attention by claiming to offer a free alternative to traditional degrees. But these massive open online courses still continue to shape the way people around the world learn and access education. Does Online Education Help Low-income Students Succeed?
Edsurge
MAY 29, 2018
You worked in a traditional university and then moved to Ashford—what attracted you to online learning? When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. In 2011, it had only five full-time faculty members. Online learning can help this situation.
Edsurge
DECEMBER 26, 2016
Pluralsight, an online learning company that was also expected to IPO, is also on hold. This year saw no mega-rounds for startups in the postsecondary sector—unlike 2015, which saw HotChalk, Udacity, Udemy, Coursera and Civitas Learning account for more than $520 million of funding. The Glendale, Calif.-based
Hack Education
JUNE 17, 2016
“The Vastmanland court ruled Tuesday the Malardalen University ’s two-year program ‘Analytical Finance’ that Connie Askenback attended from 2011 to 2013 ‘had no practical value.’” ’” More on court cases in the sports and testing sections below. Edsurge weighs in but doesn’t say much.
Learning with 'e's
APRIL 16, 2015
There are too many people to list in terms of who is involved, but the open, online portion of ds106 that went live in Spring 2011 was architected by Martha Burtis , Tom Woodward , and Alan Levine. But the fact they all just tried to do MOOCs (bigger online classes in a bigger "open" LMS) might be a good example of their limitations.
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