Edsurge
APRIL 3, 2018
As MOOCs surged in popularity from 2012 to 2015, universities, nonprofits, schools and companies all jumped into the game of developing online courses, and giving them away—often at the promise of no cost—to the world. Today, few higher-ed institutions are able to sustain the ongoing costs associated with producing and running MOOCs.
Learning with 'e's
JUNE 11, 2015
Martin Weller's keynote presentation at EDEN 2015 Conference was entitled 'The battle for open.' The synopsis reads: With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream. Unported License.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
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.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
OCTOBER 16, 2013
There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 20, 2016
The Stanford initiative launched in 2015, joining a handful of recent efforts to help students contend with misinformation and fake news online—a problem as old as dial-up modems, but now supercharged by social media and partisan news bubbles.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 16, 2016
Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. The game was launched in July and despite mixed reviews, was downloaded some 10 million times the first week it was released.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.
Expert insights. Personalized for you.
65 
Let's personalize your content