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Moving From 5% to 85% Completion Rates for Online Courses

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MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. That’s a far cry from five years ago, when only 5 percent of the students were finishing the MOOCs I was designing. Use the power of peer pressure.

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Leveling Up Language Learners’ 21st-Century Skills with Minecraft

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We had been working for several weeks on a storytelling unit in my ESL classes in 2012. Learning English in Minecraft: a case study on language competences and classroom practices. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube. “Can we set the story in Minecraft?” It was time to create our own stories. IrvSpanish.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “How to Con Black Law Students: A Case Study” – Elie Mystal in The New York Times on a partnership between the HBCU Bethune-Cookman and the for-profit Arizona Summit Law School. ” Ng is, of course, the co-founder of the MOOC startup Coursera. Tressie McMillan Cottom weighs in.