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Edsurge
APRIL 13, 2022
The most notorious oracle predicting the coming death spiral of academia was the late Harvard University professor Clayton Christensen, who in 2011 famously forecast that “50 percent of the 4,000 colleges and universities in the U.S. will be bankrupt in 10 to 15 years.” colleges will remain standing.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) million students. million students.
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Edsurge
NOVEMBER 13, 2018
The online course won’t include any heavy technical lessons, and is specifically targeting learners without experience with AI who want to better understand the technology or ways it could impact their business. offers through Coursera, which Ng teaches, have had wide appeal on the MOOC website. He left the company in 2014.)
Edsurge
MAY 29, 2018
In his current role, Byun is an Associate Professor in the Forbes School of Business & Technology at Ashford University, where he teaches courses in database management, programming and telecommunications. When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
EdSurge: Udacity rode the wave of hype around MOOCs, massive open online courses, when the company started back in 2011. But more recently, the company’s co-founder, Sebastian Thrun, has insisted that Udacity is not a MOOC company. We do that by partnering with industry. Do you think Udacity will move beyond tech fields?
The Principal of Change
DECEMBER 13, 2018
If you’re thinking you don’t have the time, remember that your technology is mobile. Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years. You can do what I did; take your computer or tablet and work in classrooms.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 29, 2017
The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. How accurate is her data? (I’d
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