Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. The couple is no longer with Coursera, which is now valued at $2.5 But they are not done with higher education yet.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The modern massive open online course movement, which began when the first “MOOCs” were offered by Stanford professors in late 2011, is now half a decade old. In that time, MOOC providers have raised over $400 million and now employ more than a thousand staff. Class Central. million Udacity - 4 million. And it seems to be working.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. The problem, he argues, is that providers of MOOCs, including Coursera and edX, require registration to get to the materials. Downes has a special relationship to MOOCs. And it's an opportune time to rethink open courses.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

MOOCs have gone from a buzzword to a punchline, especially among professors who were skeptical of these “massive open online courses” in the first place. MOOCs started in around 2011 when a few Stanford professors put their courses online and made them available to anyone who wanted to take them. And that's what MOOCS have.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A decade ago, large-scale online courses known as MOOCs were all the rage, touted as a possible alternative to traditional college and celebrated in the popular press. Talbert had taken MOOCs back when they first started and was unimpressed. How was what you saw? The content and the product was really, really polished.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Coursera Is Now a Public Company. Young The MOOC giant was valued at more than $3.6 Do Instructional Videos Work Better When the Teacher is On Screen? Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. Flipped Learning Can Be a Key to Transforming Teaching and Learning Post-Pandemic. By Robert Talbert.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Jeff Maggioncalda, the CEO of Coursera, can’t hide his excitement about AI. He has ChatGPT on his phone and his iPad, and our 45-minute conversation is peppered with references to Coursera’s newest personal learning assistant, “Coach.” And it’s not the only high-tech strategy that Coursera employs to shepherd users through courses.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

In most cases, what professors ask students to do outside the classrooms is watch video lectures, and Barba thinks that part of the flipped approach needs to go, and that professors are relying too much on such videos as a crutch. The edX CEO last year said interweaving videos with quizzes is active learning, and that's ridiculous.”

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 3, 2014

Image Used With Permission Under a Creative Commons License Late last week I was innocently checking my Twitter feed, and I saw an announcement for a MOOC called Foundations of Virtual Instruction. The course is offered through Coursera , a known online learning platform which I have heard and read good things about.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Coursera sits somewhat awkwardly on the border between traditional higher education and the Silicon Valley-forces working to disrupt it. The colleges create course videos and assignments that are offered on the company’s platform for free—and students can pay for a certificate showing completion. How’s that going?

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 19, 2014

I''m taking a MOOC through Coursera and UC Irvine called Advanced Instructional Strategies in the Virtual Classroom. One of the options for the assignment was to make an introductory video for an online course. I''ve used several video creation apps and programs before, so I thought it would be easy. But not so fast.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 9, 2013

After seemingly stalling for a short time, MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses ) seem to be graining ground again. With the potential for thousands of students to enrol together on MOOCs, learning through connection to this large network of learners became the foundation and the cornerstone.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He doesn’t get paid, but he helps improve the quality of courses by catching mistakes in quizzes and pointing out befuddling bits of video lectures, which can then be clarified before professors release the course to students. “I Wesley Engers has an unusual hobby: beta testing online courses from well-known colleges and universities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

An experimental university announced last week that its home-grown online teaching platform can now handle up to 400 students at a time via live video. Other companies sell software that can support video courses, though Minerva is unusual in that it develops curriculum and software designed to work together.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Students can communicate peer-to-peer and also engage instructors directly in text, voice, and video, recorded for later access or run immediately in real-time. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) million students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Without a University Involved.).

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Notes from MOOCs for Professional Development Presentation at TCEA 2015 Dr. Kay Abernathy, Lamar University [link] Lamar University sponsored the MOOC on Social Media Communication Tools for Educators which Dr. Abernathy facilitated. You can build up to five MOOCs for free on this platform. link] What is a MOOC?

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. That’s a far cry from five years ago, when only 5 percent of the students were finishing the MOOCs I was designing.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

Some of it has already been invested in startups including Class Technologies, which is building an instructional video platform on Zoom; Guild Education, which works with companies to provide educational opportunities to their employees; and Photomath, an app that shows students how to solve math problems, step by step, just by taking a picture.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Coursera to Charge Fees for Previously Free Courses Once hailed as a portal for free learning materials, accessible to anyone with an internet connection, Coursera announced this year plans to charge if learners want to submit assignments to be graded for certain courses.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. This spyware extracts an incredible amount of information from students, including their biometric data, audio, and video, and then runs it through proprietary algorithms designed to identify suspicious behavior that might signal cheating. Unfathomable.

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Wired Campus

JUNE 16, 2015

A new company is jumping into MOOCs, but with a focus on teaching free courses in the arts. Cook, an emeritus professor at Princeton, the platform will be “multimedia rich” and allow students to create online portfolios, upload music files and scanned art, watch videos, and participate in discussion forums.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Well-funded MOOC providers Coursera, Udacity and EdX have evolved their business models to focus squarely on corporate learning and serving professionals seeking credentials. You get an introduction to a topic, apply it, do a short video or course, then apply that.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But Charles Severance , a University of Michigan professor who also teaches massive open online courses (MOOCs) on Coursera , doesn’t think higher education will be terribly affected, he tells EdSurge. He points out that higher education institutions don’t have the large amount of traffic that, say, a company like Netflix has.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2022

Coursera, another giant online provider that works with traditional colleges, runs special rate promotions as well. A simple Google search , for instance, might lead to “$15 off $99 on courses” coupon codes for edX, which provides online courses from some of the world’s most well-known universities.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

Quickly I found that even as I logged runs on Strava daily, I struggled to find the time to log into platforms like Coursera, Udemy or Udacity to finish courses produced by my fellow instructional designers. Edthena enables teachers to record videos of themselves teaching and then upload these to the platform to get feedback from mentors.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

” Here DeMillo carries on his account of the MOOC story which he launched in chapter 1. This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. It’s not entirely a rosy account. Kindle location 1093).

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. education and workforce technology companies: Six companies went public at valuations above $1 billion: PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc. NASDAQ: DUOL), Instructure Holdings, Inc. NYSE: COUR), Udemy, Inc.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

In this post I’ll share my notes along with the complete video recording. Curt began by describing the use of MOOCs for faculty and staff development, with examples such as a University of London effort. In fact, open MOOCs can work for any population, esp. Bonk mentions more MOOC research he did, available at this site.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. Video materials were also provided to teach students how to use the downloaded applications and what to expect. Try free online courses from Coursera , edX , and Udacity.

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Wired Campus

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When students enroll in MOOCs, they almost always watch a series of video lectures. But just watching videos — without also engaging interactively — is an ineffective way to learn, according to a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. Those in the MOOC-only course scored an average of 57 percent on the final.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

The chapter is entitled “Map of the World”, and focuses on the rise of open courseware ( MIT OCW ) and MOOCs, with notes on flipped classes, Khan Academy , gaming (via Dragon Box ), and the Minerva Project (now Minerva Schools at KG ). Emails from far-flung and variously challenged students happy with MOOCs appear.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

They’re about a decade behind their university counterparts, who helped to found edX in 2012 , the same year that startup Coursera launched its competing service, now worth millions. Community colleges are staking a claim in the territory of online course marketplaces.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

MOOC catalog site Class Central has reported a 900 percent spike in traffic , and course enrollment has surged at Coursera.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

You see platforms like edX, Coursera and Udacity working with employers who are focused on jobs skills and demands that are out there in the external market, and then going to their university or college partners and really designing to that. These trends raise a host of questions about the future of credentialing.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Start with the “big four” that most people have heard of: Coursera, Udacity, Udemy, and EdX. Check out the list of global MOOC platforms curated by Class Central, but realize there are entirely different ecosystems of platforms that specialize in corporate training or adaptive learning. Pore through the feedback they submit on surveys.

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