The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

But despite growth in the numbers and sophistication of online options, high school seniors continue to apply for the opportunity to learn with one another on a college campus. Will the 2020 coronavirus pandemic change that? I’d already adapted this class in 2013 as one of Coursera’s free online humanities offerings.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

One thing I’ve been looking at is Google Trends and trying to see if there is any early evidence that people are searching for new sorts of things, like micro-credentials and online degrees. I remember I used to go around, and I would give a presentation about the importance of online learning.

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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.”

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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.

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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.

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” An op-ed in Forbes by University Ventures’ Ryan Craig : “Make Online Education Great (For The First Time).” ” Via The Financial Times : “ Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era.” Seriously?!

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