Edsurge
JULY 9, 2018
Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs. I typically build MOOCs, but this spring, I designed an online program for a cohort of 16 nonprofit leaders.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2020
No, but some virtual tools will stick around. 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. Tools in liberal education may be changing, but its essential mission — its core task of empowering the whole person — is not.
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Edsurge
APRIL 16, 2019
Its primary customer is the nonprofit university called Minerva Schools at KGI, which aims to offer a selective liberal-arts undergraduate education where classes are fully online, using video and interactive tools. Early MOOC experiments had more than 100,000 students per course.
Edsurge
MARCH 14, 2023
She also teaches Learning How to Learn , one of the most popular Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Olav Schewe, consultant based in Oslo, Norway, who has worked with universities and companies to advise them on how to use insights from neuroscience to make better learning programs and tools.
Linways Technologies
JANUARY 6, 2023
In the absence of a clear mapping between program outcomes and assessment tools, student achievement of program outcomes is inaccurate and unreliable. By using these two tools, higher education institutions can ensure that all students get the most out of their higher education experience.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 27, 2015
Talking with students and expecting them to respond meaningfully isn’t lecture–that’s accountable talk, which itself is close to a Socratic dialogue or Paideia seminar. Explaining an idea verbally, especially if being done to clarify a context or history of circumstance–can be a powerful tool if used expertly.
Bryan Alexander
DECEMBER 29, 2015
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. Digital storytelling has been exploding over the past half-decade, at least in terms of strategies, forms, and tools.
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