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A Product at Every Price: A Review of MOOC Stats and Trends in 2017

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The MOOC landscape has grown to include 9,400 courses, more than 500 MOOC-based credentials, and more than a dozen graduate degrees. The total number of MOOCs available to register for at any point of time is larger than ever, thanks to tweaks in the scheduling policy by MOOC providers. edX: 14 million users. XuetangX: 9.3

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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

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It has the most users of any provider of MOOCs (as the large-scale online courses are sometimes called), claiming more than 77 million learners. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. Course Report published year-end data from edX and Coursera. Downsides of Openness?

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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

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While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Without a University Involved.).

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

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But as Lindsey Cook (Data Editor at US News & World Report) points out in this 20 minute talk, that data isn’t always accessible. Public Private Partnerships - The K-12 Funding Gap : Many inequalities in the American education system can be attributed to massive funding gaps between schools. 2:00 p.m.

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Higher Education Joins the Blockchain Party

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He said that currently, most degree-awarding systems are structured in a way that assumes students stay at one institution before graduation, when in-fact many transfer, making it difficult for them to keep track of different records. A person’s records are at hand whenever he or she is, for example, looking for a new job.

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So Much More Than Letters and Numbers

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…Frustrated parents and teachers, however, said in interviews with Chalkbeat— which produced this story in partnership with The Atlantic— that the new online system is either confusing or incomplete and can’t replace face-to-face interaction. IMMOOC April 21, 2017 Focus on the “Learner”

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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