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.
Edsurge
AUGUST 5, 2022
2U and the OPM market have come under fire in recent years for, in effect, encouraging unsustainably high graduate program tuition, thus increasing student debt, culminating in the Wall Street Journal article about the University of Southern California’s Online Masters of Social Work that charged upwards of $115,000 for a two-year program.
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 23, 2019
So, I'm not sure I have a lot to say about what happened, what stories were told in 2019. Far too many articles — and this is surely what its venture capitalist and philanthropist backers hope — have not reflected the landscape but have tried instead to shape it. ASU ends its MOOC experiment , Global Freshman Academy.
Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2022
Since then, the online education, education technology and workforce innovation industry has gone through three increasingly larger “waves” which I described in that previous article , and concerns that our industry was “ jumping the shark ” in 2017 have been proven premature. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. million in 2019 to 18.6
Hack Education
DECEMBER 12, 2017
Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Vive la MOOC Révolution. In October of this year, Clarissa Shen, Udacity’s Chief Operating Officer, called MOOCs “ a failed product.”
Hack Education
DECEMBER 14, 2018
Each week for the past eight or so years, I have gathered a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this has fed the series of articles I have written each December, analyzing the stories we have been told about the future of education. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” I wrote about Whittle and his investment pal Michael Moe in an article in The Baffler in January of this year.
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