Edsurge
APRIL 16, 2019
The online university advertises its video-based online courses as active-learning seminars, so these class sizes are modeled after their counterparts at many traditional face-to-face colleges. One example is the iMBA program , a low-cost online business program offered by the University of Illinois, run in partnership with Coursera.
Edsurge
AUGUST 3, 2017
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). The cheapest option is the ability to get a live person to answer questions by chat when a student gets stuck (that costs $20 per month).
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 21, 2014
The thought is so alluring that parents often ask early education teachers what the best apps are, said Lisa Guernsey, speaking at the national seminar of the Education Writer’s Association in Nashville this week. From Yale to Coursera. Photo by Jennifer Dev. Knowledge pills, robo-graders, brain implants and other dystopian edtech.
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
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Small-scale seminars can be intimate and powerful. The first and most obvious lesson is that not all classroom formats translate easily onto Zoom. Lectures work, especially if the instructor is particularly compelling. But laboratory instruction is harder—as are other hands-on teaching methods.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
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. Still, many skeptics point out that very small percentages of students who sign up for MOOCs actually complete the course.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017
However, as more online learning companies raise their Series D funding rounds , and players from Duolingo to Coursera try to figure out sustainable business models, we’ve reached a juncture where we need to think about the issues of equity that come with chasing paying customers.
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