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Coursera Couple Returns to Higher Ed With $14.5M to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online

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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. Students are “seated” in virtual tables, in groups of up to 10. Students “seated” at different virtual tables groups on Engageli.

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Triumphs and Troubles in Online Learning Abroad

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as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. border, Tecnológico de Monterrey, a private university, founded in 1943 by a group of wealthy local business executives, supports 33 campuses across the nation and in 15 countries abroad. I’ve always thought of the U.S. While here in the U.S.,

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. “At the most general level,” Srnicek writes. Students will receive iPads.

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Why Most Ivies Offer Few Online Degrees—And What’s Happening to Change It

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Some in this elite group of colleges—specifically Princeton and Yale—offer no online degree at all. One Ivy, Columbia University, actually got an early start 35 years ago at the dawn of the digital age, when it launched its Video Network that now produces about a dozen online engineering master’s degrees.

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STEMxCon - Today Is the Final Deadline for Proposals; Great Keynotes + Sessions; Need Volunteers!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

events , the real party takes place in the volunteer moderator lounge, where a devoted, energetic, and highly beloved group of volunteer moderators keeps the conference running and humming. Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

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“To reconstitute” is to re-form an organization or a group in a new way. I’m not sure we talk often enough about technology-enhanced learning in these terms – as a political not merely pedagogical practice. What are MOOCs, for example? What are virtual learning environments? To re-establish order.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Catapult Learning has acquired Capital Education Group. Via YLE : “ Finland ’s digital-based curriculum impedes learning, researcher finds.” .” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. Tutoring company Knack has raised $1.5