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What If No One Seeks Credit for a Credit-Eligible MOOC?

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News that Arizona State University and edX have archived 10 of their 14 Global Freshman Academy courses raises questions about the viability and purpose of credit-eligible MOOCs. She suggests that first-year students may need more academic and social supports and wraparound services than a la carte MOOCs provide. And yet, only 0.47

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What a New Strategy at 2U Means for the Future of Online Higher Education

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edX was never the premier MOOC brand—that title belongs to Coursera. 2U has been the poster child for revenue-sharing models, and the company tends to make the most strategic changes based on broader market conditions. The jury is obviously still out on whether these strategic changes will work for the company.

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The Year in Podcasts: Top EdSurge On Air Episodes of 2018

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MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines. So we talked with Dhawal Shah, founder and CEO of Class Central, who has been tracking MOOCs closely ever since he was a student in one of those first Stanford open courses, about how MOOCs have evolved.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising.

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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. went straight to our podcast, which has had a fresh resurgence with the last year of higher education reporting through our newsletter, Next.

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Campus Tech 2016: Recognizing—and Questioning—“Inevitable” Futures

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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.” Here are some of our biggest takeaways from the marathon event: INNOVATION OR TRANSFORMATION IN EDUCATION?

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Beyond K-12: EdSurge’s Next Move

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Given the current trends, the U.S. Even as technology can help students, there are plenty of instances where it can also lead to dead ends: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) did not make it possible for anyone on the planet to get the equivalent of a Stanford University degree for free. By 2020, 65 percent of U.S.

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