The Learning Revolution Has Begun
SEPTEMBER 26, 2012
Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. I discovered long ago that moving targets are hard to hit - so I keep moving!!
Hack Education
MARCH 23, 2018
Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” “Many are never the same.”
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Hack Education
DECEMBER 9, 2017
” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 31, 2018
” Tutoring is the cornerstone of technological fantasies about “personalized learning.” In 2012, Wired Magazine proclaimed that Udacity “ could change higher learning forever.” ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.)
Edsurge
JANUARY 2, 2020
Ted Dintersmith : There was a massive gush of enthusiasm for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), with some conviction it would revolutionize higher education. Many colleges rushed to put in place their MOOC offerings, hoping to provide meaningful free or low-cost education to a “massive” number of students.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 16, 2018
” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (So instead of “testing” we’ll have ubiquitous, non-stop surveillance / assessment via “personalized learning.” “What Does Personalized Learning Mean? More robot news up in the MOOC section above.
MindShift
DECEMBER 14, 2015
In our own time, advocates of online learning promise to level the educational playing fields with massive open online courses, MOOCs. The most compelling evidence for the democratizing power of MOOCs comes from a new generation of Horatio Alger stories, where the video lecture replaces the bootblack’s cloth.
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