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

Edsurge

It has the most users of any provider of MOOCs (as the large-scale online courses are sometimes called), claiming more than 77 million learners. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. We measure ourselves on outcomesoutcomes in terms of how many people have we impacted.”

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Fostering Peer Connections to Make MOOCs Personal

The PL2C Blog

The Friday Institute and Oak Foundation seek to end this anachronism with the Learning Differences MOOC for Educators (MOOC-Ed). VPLCs are virtual meetings using Google Hangouts. When combined with the self-directed, anytime, anywhere learning facilitated in the MOOC-Ed, the experience proved to be powerful.

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Fostering Peer Connections to Make MOOCs Personal

Educator Innovator

It takes more than just engaging content to have a successful MOOC. Through an inquiry-based process, our partner The Friday Institute discovered that offering multiple ways for participants to connect during the MOOC led to more positive outcomes. VPLCs are virtual meetings using Google Hangouts. ” By Lauren Acree.

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A Nonprofit Spent Five Years Counting a Million Credentials. What Does It All Add Up To?

Edsurge

For example, a leader from the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development explained during the webinar how her state is creating a digital search tool that lets people select among all the credential options available to them, sorting by occupation, program location and graduate outcomes. provide credentials: 59,692.

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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

Edsurge

While high-resolution data for community colleges isn’t available, we can see evidence for this in proxies such as Google search trends , consumers’ growing openness and intention to study online , booming MOOC enrollment , and publicly-traded online learning company enrollment results.

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Could Coursera Become as Prestigious as Harvard? This Expert Thinks So.

Edsurge

And what we'll see is a growing focus on outcomes.” And that means that just because different students are offered the same access to a certain kind of experience, such as, say, an online format they may not be ready for, that won’t necessarily lead to fair outcomes, he adds. What we're talking about is: Have you achieved the outcome?”

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Learning Beyond The Classroom Walls

The Web20Classroom

I sat down at my laptop, went to Google and started searching. Traditional colleges and universities are also facing a new generation of learning options through MOOCs. When I decided to pursue a Master’s Degree in Instructional Technology, I started out like many students do. Everything was virtual. There’s course for almost anyone!

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