Coursera Education MOOC Seminar 
Edsurge
APRIL 16, 2019
The announcement, from The Minerva Project, enters a longstanding debate about whether online education can drastically cut the cost of education by reducing the number of instructors needed to teach. Early MOOC experiments had more than 100,000 students per course. This is not an operation where one person does it.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
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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Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
The fall semester of 2020 is like nothing we have seen before in higher education. Many students have chosen to defer or to forego their education completely. higher education. But the pandemic has now forced this change; forced the entire landscape of higher education to embrace the technologies of online learning.
Edsurge
JANUARY 27, 2017
Coursera is quietly testing elements of a new strategy, with the goal of moving from a platform for courses to a broader career-building service. It’s part of a continued evolution of MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses. Coursera and Chill? But the company recently added a feature that asks users: “What’s your main goal?”
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
Online courses helped kick off a movement promising that your zipcode no longer had to determine the quality of education you received. Despite these promising developments, however, vast inequity still persists in the United States education system. People in rural Bhutan could take a computer science class from Harvard.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2016
Trump University and the History of the Future of For-Profit Higher Education. If nothing else, it seemed as though for-profit higher ed was poised to rebrand itself, embracing “coding bootcamps” as the new vocational education and career training. The President-Elect refused to accept any wrongdoing.
Hack Education
JUNE 10, 2016
Education Politics. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Gov. .” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Gov. .” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Gov. ” Education in the Courts. ” Education in the Courts. ” Ugh. .”
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