The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2020
For me, it was pretty easy to imagine how I’d supplement the online pre-recorded lectures from my MOOC with discussions with Wesleyan students on the Zoom platform. My colleagues report similarly positive experiences. Although we record these discussions, almost all of my 50+ undergraduates attend class together.
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
Investors and Entrepreneurs—From the 'Innovate' Newsletter This year was a busy one for the edtech industry from the standpoint of our AT&T State of Edtech report, which delved into funding deals and product development. Her team used the online communication platform to lead an online seminar about an ambiguous and risky text.
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Edsurge
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I count. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. The average completion rate for MOOCs (including the ones I design) hovers between 5-15 percent. This skepticism is not unwarranted.
Bryan Alexander
DECEMBER 29, 2015
I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. There’s now a movement to teach humanities seminars online. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Small-scale seminars can be intimate and powerful.
Hack Education
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
This talk was delivered at Virginia Commonwealth University today as part of a seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of English and Sociology. ” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity.
Bryan Alexander
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
The answer has been “yes” for some years, and I’m not talking about MOOCs or University of Phoenix. ITEM: Over the past several years a group of small colleges, members of the Council of Independent Colleges ( CIC ), experimented with sharing upper-level humanities seminars with each other. Here are some examples.
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