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Meet the New, Self-Appointed MOOC Accreditors: Google and Instagram

Wired Campus

Some of the biggest MOOC producers, including Daphne Koller’s Coursera, may have figured out how to get employers to accept free online courses as credentials: Get big-name companies to help design them. ” Coursera is hardly the first MOOC provider to bring in companies to help design its online courses.

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Stop Calling College Teachers ‘Professors.’ Try ‘Cognitive Coaches,’ Says Goucher President.

Edsurge

It’s the same thing when you go to a meeting and some guy reads his PowerPoint. These MOOCs are free. Well people say, “But the MOOCs aren’t very successful, most people drop out.” And who does best at MOOCs? One of my cuckoo ideas is that maybe we should require all seniors to pass a MOOC before they graduate.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

The specific moonshot he recently set his sights on is to revolutionize the teaching of mathematics, specifically for college students who lack basic competencies to meet admission or graduation requirements. So the program doesn’t allow them to look at their smartphones or personal computers while in the building.

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Developing and Delivering Effective Professional Development for Educators

EdTechTeam

Almost everyone present there came armed with a crisp diary, a pen, an iPad, a smartphone or a laptop and of course, a few entered with a favorite coffee mug. The Teacher Slam takes place at the beginning of any large meeting. Most of these MOOCs are free and are led by top professors from reputed global universities.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via the Phoenix New Times : “Meet the Creationist Helping to Change Arizona School Standards on Evolution.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ MOOCs May Still Be Reshaping Higher Education, Just Not In the Way That Was Initially Predicted.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Last year , the Ugandan government decreed that company’s schools be shut down because they failed to meet education and sanitation requirements; Kenyan courts have also ordered the schools to close. Are MOOCs webinars? Are webinars now MOOCs?). “Are Teenagers Replacing Drugs With Smartphones ?”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “Behind Randi Weingarten ’s secret meeting with Steve Bannon ” by Mike Klonsky. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “How Much Hollywood Glitz Should Colleges Use in Their Online Courses ?” The George W. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ E.U. .”