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Are SPOCs a better option for online education than MOOCs?

Neo LMS

MOOCs: high aspirations and higher disappointments. The above idea is a noble one and massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs , are thought to be the solution to worldwide access to higher education. The online connectivity may not be a really important problem, but MOOCs faced a wall of other, more important issues.

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Are SPOCs a better option for online education than MOOCs?

Neo LMS

MOOCs: high aspirations and higher disappointments. The above idea is a noble one and massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs , are thought to be the solution to worldwide access to higher education. The online connectivity may not be a really important problem, but MOOCs faced a wall of other, more important issues.

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3 Opportunities for education during the pandemic

Neo LMS

The past two years have provided the background for learning through project-based activities for students who always wanted to know the real-life use of what they learned. Project-based learning (PBL) is a teaching approach in which students engage with real-life tasks addressed with sustained inquiry to provide authentic results.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Kevin Carey argues in Washington Monthly “Why More Colleges Should Treat Students Like Numbers ”: Students who log on to the LMS, download materials, click on lectures, and contribute to discussions are much less likely to drop out than students who don’t.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. See David Kernohan’s excellent keynote at OpenEd13 for more.) Uber for Education". “We

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). And I’m not sure if Udacity now better fits here in this for-profit higher ed section, but there’s news about it in the MOOC section above. ” “ Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation ,” Techcrunch reports. of Cincinnati Police Officer.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette : “Former Pitt student, key figure in Chinese-U.S. More promoting the wonders of AI in this Edsurge story : “ A Siri for Higher Ed Aims to Boost Student Engagement.” Via The Guardian : “ Facebook , Twitter , Google and Microsoft team up to tackle extremist content.”