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Moving From 5% to 85% Completion Rates for Online Courses

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MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. That’s a far cry from five years ago, when only 5 percent of the students were finishing the MOOCs I was designing.

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What Is An Asynchronous Learning Community?

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While some classes might enable students to study similar content that’s personalized for them at their own pace, untethered from the rest of the class. facebook groups or something similar) ‘need’ functional technology (e.g., program would be a decent example of this. ” What Do Asynchronous Learners Need?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called badges a “game-changing strategy.”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Department of Education told a federal judge Thursday that it would terminate a January contract award to two debt collection firms as it reassesses its strategy for serving borrowers in default on their federal student loans.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe

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Yet academics are not the main reason student drop out; according to a study from Inside Track , it’s the fifth most important factor. Do you know what company is “Facebook for country X?” Facebook is. MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. Do you know what company is “Facebook for country X?” Facebook is.

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How—and Why—We Can Improve the Future of Mobile Learning

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When Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) were first introduced, people quickly realized these platforms could help students learn more effectively at their own pace on their own schedule. Wheneducational resources like study materials are easily accessible via a smartphone or tablet, students can benefit tremendously.

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

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Diverse by Design: Creating CS Programs for All : When working to diversity computer science programs, strategies often look to improve existing programs rather than designing better programs for all from the get-go. One recent study found “widespread acceptance of alternative credentialing programs at American colleges and universities.”

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