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In China, Online Degrees on Hold, Even as MOOCs Rise

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In fact, the country has no institution that is approved to deliver online degrees, even though it has moved rapidly to embrace MOOCs, free or low-cost online courses offered to millions throughout the country. online degrees in China. advances in online pedagogy, such as flipped classrooms and MOOCs.

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U. of Michigan Hints at Growth Plans for Office of Academic Innovation

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DeVaney wouldn’t reveal much about the innovation team’s particular plans, other than to say that the university intends to offer three new online and hybrid degree programs in the fall and to launch multiple degrees per year over the next five years. We develop a more agile and iterative model for our constituents on campus.”

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Elite Colleges Started EdX as a Nonprofit Alternative to Coursera. How Is It Doing?

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It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. Downsides of Openness?

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Coursera Raises $130 Million as Colleges Turn to Online Courses for the Fall

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On Wednesday, CampusLogic, a provider of financial aid software to colleges and universities, raised $120 million. Founded in 2012 by two Stanford University professors, Coursera was one of a trio of startups that spearheaded the hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for short. education technology company in 2020.

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?HigherEd Year in Review: What We’ve Learned (and Loved) in Our First 365 Days

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First the numbers: In the past year, we have published more than 300 articles about the shifting trends in higher ed, education technology and digital learning. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Ray Batra: EdSurge promotes how technology can support teaching and learning, but it doesn’t do so uncritically.

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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.”) It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. It’s now an LMS too.

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The Free, Amazing, Library 2.014 Online Events This Week

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- Jason LeDuc The influence of the Learning Commons on the university libraries’ missions - Estelle Beck, Librarian, LIS Master Student 3:00pm 3D printing at the Reference Desk - Rachel Collier, Adult Services Librarian Conceptions of Research: Implications for Information Literacy Instruction - Andrea Baer, Undergraduate Education Librarian Harvesting (..)