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Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

Edsurge

Yet most of our energy has been focused on designing physical learning spaces, even as more teaching and learning shifts online. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. This type of structure is not revolutionary.

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Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019

Edsurge

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. It’s depressing shorthand for skepticism about online education in general. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. This skepticism is not unwarranted.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

But other departments already provide the backbone (internet connectivity, access to hardware, etc) and can afford – even desire – to let Domain projects go on. Q: Autumm Caines asked:”I’m getting ready to teach a 1st year seminar on digital citizenship. Use open and free tools, then share out what you do.

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Future Trends Forum #8, with Jim Groom: full recording, notes, and Storify

Bryan Alexander

But other departments already provide the backbone (internet connectivity, access to hardware, etc) and can afford – even desire – to let Domain projects go on. Q: Autumm Caines asked:”I’m getting ready to teach a 1st year seminar on digital citizenship. Use open and free tools, then share out what you do.

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Today’s Awkward Zoom Classes Could Bring a New Era of Higher Education

Edsurge

In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Small-scale seminars can be intimate and powerful.

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Implementing education technology by pursuing technology education: Professional Development ideas for educators

Neo LMS

As members, educators can take part in events, forums, seminars, training and more. Online courses, including certificates and degree programs, make it easy to learn on any schedule. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities.

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20 years in e-learning

Mark Smithers

Originally I thought the academic staff member should be the creator and designer of online learning for their subjects. I was expected to lecture, give tutorials and maybe seminars or laboratories depending on the topic. As an aside, I think we have massively overcomplicated online learning. Now I disagree.

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