Edsurge
MAY 23, 2022
For that perspective, we recently connected with Matthew Tower, a principal at Workshop Venture Partners, a small, Massachusetts-based venture capital firm focused on climate and education. They’ve both grown to hundreds of thousands of [online] students and hundreds of millions in revenue, more than any coding bootcamp or MOOC.
The Learning Revolution Has Begun
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. The research entails the use of qualitative measures and data mining.
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Edsurge
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
I find it much more engaging than reading a book,” says Engers, a 29-year-old data scientist, when asked why he does it. Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges. And I do enjoy giving back and trying to contribute to a community and help future students.”
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 27, 2018
With less than a week until the storytelling-themed keynote kicks things off, we combed through the sessions, workshops and talks that will be filling our heads, and our Twitter feeds, in the days to come. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Higher Ed 11:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m. A Flipped Future?
EdTechSandyK
APRIL 8, 2014
edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. More Discussion Notes November suggests no more technology workshops.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 19, 2017
It's more of an invention workshop. It feels more like an inventor's workshop, but Sid's room is presented very sinister like. Clearly, we want to try to present an inventor's workshop, one that's open with possibilities and allows everybody to take their imagination and create things that come to life. He's a real inventor.
Edsurge
AUGUST 8, 2016
Stephen Downes , senior researcher at the National Research Council of Canada and co-creator of the MOOC, began with an overview of the predictive process, saying it “isn’t magic, but it’s not mechanical either.” Without the pressure to share data, vendors have no incentive to open up their products for integration, panelists said.
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