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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

Edsurge

Following Monterrey’s success, other Mexican higher ed institutions have launched new online programs mirroring Monterey Tech’s model. In Latin America, only about 15 percent of higher ed institutions offer hybrid options, and only about 20 percent deliver fully online courses. In the U.S., boasts merely 120,000 enrollments.

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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

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It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. And how is edX doing by comparison? Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central.

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

Edsurge

By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. based online learning platform provider, raised $103 million in a Series E round. education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. Coursera, the Mountain View, Calif.-based

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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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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations. Those residential campuses tend to be the ones most resistant to online learning, and the wealthiest tend to retain classic patterns of largely tenure-track faculty. ” (30).

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

The discussion of digital changes (76-82) touches on high points (cost, commodification, MOOCs), but comes to no conclusions or recommendations. Those residential campuses tend to be the ones most resistant to online learning, and the wealthiest tend to retain classic patterns of largely tenure-track faculty. ” (30).

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The persistence of distance (learning)

Learning with 'e's

They were surely an asynchronous form of instruction, a sort of same place - different time learning. By comparison, in its technology supported multiple formats, contemporary distance education is much more sophisticated. m-Learning, or mobile learning focused on the use of personal technologies. We have come a long way.