2013 Learning Magazine MOOC 
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I count. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. The average completion rate for MOOCs (including the ones I design) hovers between 5-15 percent. This skepticism is not unwarranted.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
.” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. ” Take “collaborative learning,” for example, which this year’s K–12 report posits as a mid-term trend.
Hack Education
OCTOBER 28, 2016
. “Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” ” – Thomas Friedman, 2013. Learning objects.
Robert Talbert, Ph.D.
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
This is another throwback post, this time from February 5, 2013. In the long feature article in Time magazine on Khan Academy from July 9, 2012, it says (emphasis added): Khan is using the money [ from donations from Google, etc. ] In 2013 it was all about Khan Academy; in 2017, MOOCs; today the new hotness is AI.
MindShift
DECEMBER 14, 2015
In our own time, advocates of online learning promise to level the educational playing fields with massive open online courses, MOOCs. The most compelling evidence for the democratizing power of MOOCs comes from a new generation of Horatio Alger stories, where the video lecture replaces the bootblack’s cloth.
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.’” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “We Shut Down Our Edtech Startup.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
138 
Let's personalize your content