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Edsurge
DECEMBER 28, 2021
In 2021, two of the biggest MOOC providers had an “exit” event. Ten years ago, more than 300,000 learners were taking the three free Stanford courses that kicked off the modern MOOC movement. I was one of those learners and launched Class Central as a side-project to keep track of these MOOCs.
Edsurge
MAY 13, 2021
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. It offers fewer courses than Coursera—in 2020, edX listed 3,090 courses and Coursera about 4,600. Downsides of Openness?
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Edsurge
DECEMBER 21, 2021
And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020.
Hack Education
MAY 5, 2017
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. CNN tries to explain “Why Google , Apple and Microsoft are battling for education.”
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Google Reader. Google shut down Reader in 2013 , citing declining use of RSS. The TED Talk.
Hack Education
JUNE 16, 2017
” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?” ” But if you look closer, it’s not a MOOC; it’s just an online class at MIT.
Hack Education
JANUARY 5, 2017
Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ CSU signs deal to record, broadcast classroom lectures,” says the San Francisco Examiner. Pearson execs writing in Edsurge ask , “Can Edtech Support – and Even Save – Educational Research ?” Google is closing down the Hangouts API.
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