Adaptive Learning Coursera Groups MOOC 
Edsurge
APRIL 16, 2019
Nelson says the new version of the system lets professors quickly divide a large class into groups of up to 12 students. The requirement of filling out the worksheet, or doing some other activity like a poll or quiz, makes sure students in breakout groups stay on task, Nelson says.
Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2019
Coursera, the Mountain View, Calif.-based based online learning platform provider, raised $103 million in a Series E round. Coursera, Andela, Degreed, A Cloud Guru and Lambda School all offer courses tailored for people who want to pick up new professional skills (usually involving programming and computer science).
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Edsurge
JULY 20, 2017
And look at examples of tangible rather than screen-based technologies that have been produced by groups like Paulo Blikstein’s Transformative Learning Technologies Lab. Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX.
Hack Education
SEPTEMBER 2, 2016
“The Federal Trade Commission on Friday filed a complaint against the academic journal publisher OMICS Group and two of its subsidiaries, saying the publisher deceives scholars and misrepresents the editorial rigor of its journals,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).
Hack Education
APRIL 14, 2017
“Researchers say removal of an IRS tool for financial aid applicants may have slowed FAFSA submissions, while college aid groups warn that affected students could already be losing out on aid,” Inside Higher Ed reports. The adaptive learning company has raised $16 million total.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
But other times, the scenes that were captured were taken out of context or these videos were purposefully weaponized (by conservative groups, for example, who encourage students to film their professors’ lectures and submit their names to “watch lists”). MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.
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