Edsurge
OCTOBER 24, 2017
MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does). But it doesn’t have to be that way.
Edsurge
JUNE 6, 2019
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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun
JULY 25, 2012
We have three great world-wide virtual conferences coming up in the next few months. Learning 2.0 ( [link] ) August 20 - 24, 2012 Just announced! This conference has a short lead time (right around the corner!), The conference will also include an all-day virtual unconference (SocialEdCon online!) Learning 2.0
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges. While attention around MOOCs has died down, the company seems to have found a business model for free courses with something it calls Specializations.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 6, 2016
McKay attended the summer meeting at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in California. As part of that goal, attendees at this summer’s conference drafted a set of voluntary ethical principles to help schools address big data’s challenges. Kent Wada of UCLA, who attended both this summer’s conference and its predecessor in 2014, agrees.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference this week in San Francisco, the Mountain View, Calif.-based Founded in 2012, Udacity initially sought to work with universities as a provider of massive online open courses (MOOCs). Peter Thiel once complained he was promised flying cars, but had to settle for 140 characters instead.
Edsurge
MARCH 24, 2017
Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Try building a MOOC to meet that challenge—I’d love to read about it! Sunny Lee: Part of our job at EdSurge is to report on, speak at, strike conversations and make connections at edtech conferences throughout the year. The interview, “ Why U.
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