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How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching

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After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many learners as possible, and in many ways they are more like books (digital ones, packed with videos and interactive quizzes) than courses. One of the newest blockbuster MOOCs is The Science of Well-Being, offered by a Yale University professor.

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MOOC Pioneer Coursera Tries a New Push: Selling Courseware to Colleges

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While some colleges might try it as a “secondary LMS” for a few courses, “I do not see this as a credible threat to become the primary LMS of a campus” because it does not fully tie into other campus systems, like student registration databases. “If It’s important to build that story to try to go public. They need to show a story of growth.”

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There Are 700K+ Credentials — and Counting. Which Ones Are ‘Quality’?

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Both reports note that most jobs available today require some education or training beyond a high school diploma, and that on average, workers who have post-secondary credentials earn more than those who don’t. Crunching Credentials Data Why expend all this effort researching credentials? Using information from sources including the U.S.

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Asynchronous Learning or Live Lessons? Which One Works Better for Me?

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If you work in education in 2020, you are making tough decisions about how to best reach and teach your learners in the midst of a global pandemic. There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning.

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Coursera Couple Returns to Higher Ed With $14.5M to Recreate In-Person Learning, Online

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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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Rice U. offering free AP Physics online prep course

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MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers. It covers how to use kinematics to describe translational motion; ways to apply the concepts of motion, force, mechanical energy and momentum; and new strategies for solving motion problems. . “This isn’t a typical MOOC.

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Should Gen-Ed Come Later? New Book Argues For Cheaper And Faster Alternatives to College

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Debates about how to expand access to higher education often assume a one-size-fits-all model of what college should be. Sure, but the hype around MOOCs, or massive open online courses, said that people would start finding a cheap online replacement for college and that hasn’t happened. I don’t think it’s that slow.