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. It was never secondary for me, as it is for some faculty,” she says. The couple is no longer with Coursera, which is now valued at $2.5

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Coursera Personalized Learning Learning Blackboard 109

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. We still see the majority of campuses failing to formally recognize professors’ digital work.

Trends 40

Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

Despite his name on the “university,” students never got to meet Trump (some apparently thought that was part of the deal), although they did have the opportunity to pose for a photo next to a life-size cardboard cut-out of him. What are MOOCs, for example? What are virtual learning environments?

Conference 63

Conference Course MOOC Technology 63

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The New York Times : “Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver.” .” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. There’s more news about ACICS, the accreditor for most for-profit universities, in the accreditation section below.

Education 52

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145