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Much Ado About MOOCs: Where Are We in the Evolution of Online Courses?

Edsurge

The premise back then was that classes would make high-quality online education accessible for all—and for free. And popular providers like Coursera and edX are increasingly partnering with colleges and universities to offer MOOC-based degrees online. Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee.

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Moving From 5% to 85% Completion Rates for Online Courses

Edsurge

We’ve introduced tiered pricing models to make these paid programs equally accessible to students in places ranging from Uganda to the U.K. Avoid on-demand learning and instead impose deadlines. Online courses generally require a great deal of intrinsic motivation to complete.

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The design and future of open education: Curtis Bonk on Future Trends Forum

Bryan Alexander

Access and convenience remain major motivations that bring learners to open content. I asked how open learning works for non-professionals, citing research showing many MOOC users are already professionals and/or academics. But now a wider range of population participate in online learning, both as students and teachers.

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The Flip Side of Abysmal MOOC Completion Rates? Discovering the Most Tenacious Learners

Edsurge

He quickly began supplementing his education with online courses from Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. verified certificates from Coursera and completed 11 social entrepreneurship courses from +Acumen. What if online learning could be a way to help us more effectively figure out who we should invest in?

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

It incorporates case studies to demonstrate how the framework and its dimensions could be operationalized, and how the gaps identified in the self-assessment exercise could be addressed. Who would have ever guessed that open access publishing leads to the wider dissemination of ideas? Should it be revisited?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “By taking about a third of the program’s multi-billion-dollar surplus and cutting other college access programs, [advocates for low-income students] assert, the new administration would jeopardize Pell’s long-term sustainability and harm the prospects of low-income students.” Disclosure alert.).