Edsurge
JUNE 6, 2019
MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. Industry reports and instructional designers alike typically report that only between 5 to 15 percent of students who start free open online courses end up earning a certificate.
Edsurge
JANUARY 8, 2019
Harvard’s business school launched its first online courses in 2013 in a unit it called HBX. That was at the height of the buzz around MOOCs, and about a year after the start of edX, the online course platform founded by Harvard and MIT.
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Edsurge
JULY 9, 2018
An entire graduate course at Stanford University explores the principles for designing spaces that support learning. Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs.
Linways Technologies
JANUARY 6, 2023
This approach focuses on what students can achieve at the end of a course, as well as their progress after each assessment. Additionally, Bloom’s taxonomy can be used to create learning objectives aligned with the course’s outcomes. The lack of this connection makes the whole exercise ineffective.
Edsurge
MARCH 29, 2017
Harvard reportedly spends $75,000-$150,000 building each new MOOC, most of which goes towards video production costs. If you’re an instructional designer or educational organization looking to develop an online course, how much should you invest in video production? These efforts are not cheap. Cognotion has raised $4.4
Tom Murray
FEBRUARY 4, 2017
Many of the organizations, which are listed alphabetically, have free tools, research, case studies, and resources that can seamlessly be utilized and implemented at the district and school levels. All of these organizations are shifting the needle and working diligently to support school leaders nationwide.
Edsurge
MARCH 20, 2019
It’s common these days to hear that free online mega-courses, called MOOCs, failed to deliver on their promise of educating the masses. But one outcome of that push towards open online courses was plenty of high-quality teaching material. As Lue puts it, “all of the content is locked into courses.”
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