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.
Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2022
Even more embarrassingly, I was a co-founder of a company in 1998 called Mascot Network that raised $22 million to build online Facebook-style portals for colleges , which was seven years too early. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. As a result, I am very conscious (perhaps too much so) of market timing.
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Think Facebook. Remember Edmodo?
Edsurge
JANUARY 10, 2019
What lessons can be learned from the rise and pivot of MOOCs, those large-scale online courses that proponents said would disrupt higher education? At the start of the MOOC trend in 2012, the promise was that the free online courses could reach students who could not afford or get access to other forms of higher education.
EdTechSandyK
MARCH 7, 2012
Notes from SXSWedu 2012 panel discussion/concurrent session. We are used to staying in our classrooms Teachers share their personal lives on Facebook; we need to encourage them to share professionally as well. Moocs are something to look at for moving more toward a culture of sharing. Maybe this isn''t the career for you.
Learning with 'e's
JANUARY 10, 2012
In 2012 her book, The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators will be published by Eye on Education. More importantly they get to reflect upon these goals on Twitter, Facebook, or on their blogs and receive the support of many educators also accomplishing these goals. It is basically a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).
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. Whatever “it” is.
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