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.
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.
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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. Two Stanford University professors founded Coursera about five years ago, amid a wave of hype that free online courses could one day replace residential undergraduate colleges.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
It’s depressing shorthand for skepticism about online education in general. Instead, MOOCs should be understood as digital content like podcasts, online magazines, Netflix series or even email campaigns rather than facilitated educational experiences akin to college seminars. This skepticism is not unwarranted.
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. And Minerva is not alone, as other colleges these days are trying similar experiments with large-scale live online classes.
Edsurge
AUGUST 3, 2017
Meanwhile, a major provider of free online educational resources for those learning to code announced new paid options that company leaders hope will make its business sustainable. The second option is to go through a course with a cohort and attend weekly live video seminars and get assignments graded (for about $200 per course).
Hack Education
OCTOBER 19, 2018
Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education.
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