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Udacity Official Declares MOOCs ‘Dead’ (Though the Company Still Offers Them)

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Udacity helped popularize the idea of offering college-level courses online to anyone for free, a format known as MOOCs (for Massive Open Online Courses). But this week a Udacity official called MOOCs “dead,” leading to questions about what that means for one of the company’s offerings (which still include free MOOCs).

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Looking to Grow in China? 3 Lessons for U.S. Edtech Companies

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China-based edtech companies raked in more than $1 billion in investment in 2015, or 37 percent of global funding for the year. Asia has the world’s highest regional growth rate for e-learning, and an e-learning market projected to be worth $12.1 Still, companies looking to do business in China face a “tangle of issues.”.

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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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In a telephone interview, Phil Hill, edtech guru and co-publisher of the widely followed e-Literate blog , acknowledged that “the LMS is not only part of the university’s core infrastructure, but it also allows faculty and students to use technology creatively in the classroom.” The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.)

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education.

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How Amazon’s Purchase of Whole Foods Highlights the Hybrid, ‘Omnichannel’ Future of Higher Ed

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Amazon has become one of the most valuable companies in the world—with a current market value of $475 billion —based on its domination of e-commerce (holding an astounding 50 percent share of all online retail sales); its leadership in the cloud computing business ; and the strength of its software algorithms.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

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Possiblye the FCC will extend E-rate funding to poorer areas. Providers are growing more features, each company or project following or leapfrogging the others. For example, MOOCs are still weak on completion and learning, but evolving. Connectivity raises cost issues, too. Now 65-75% of classes use the campus LMS.

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Interview with Terry Anderson

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We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. What are your views on MOOCs? Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e''s. I managed to grab some of his time to ask him a few questions about his work.

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