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Big 3 MOOC Providers Turning One Year Old!
“But one year is a seriously short time period for higher education and educational technology, which are just not used to changes on this time scale. To give some perspective, consider the...
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The World is Not Flat – MOOCs may eye the world market, but does the world...
“This goal of “democratizing education” using technology is gaining popular appeal among investors, some professors, pundits, politicians and the public amid the recent craze for massive open online...
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Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad MOOC?
“ “We should look upon online lectures and similar materials as a way to draw on others’ expertise. As it is, I read some of the secondary literature on a theorist whose work I teach. Why not let the...
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Differences of Opinion on Online Courses | Harvard Magazine
On the experience of teaching a MOOC: “Preparing and Teaching a MOOC TWO TEACHERS have written for The Chronicle of Higher Education about their experiences in devising and delivering MOOCs. Karen...
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Is College Moving Online? : The New Yorker
The New Yorker now talking MOOCs with a focus on Harvard’s vision of the future of education. Well written of course but out of touch (as is most of mass media) and plain old wrong where it probably...
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Georgia Tech, Udacity To Offer Master’s Degree
“WHOA. Georgia Tech and Udacity today said that they would jointly offer an entirely online master’s degree in computer science with support from AT&T for less than $7,000, total. That’s a...
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Harvard-for-Free Meets Resistance as U.S. Professors See Threat
More mass media on MOOCs. ”Professors across the U.S. are criticizing a rush to offer free online college courses, challenging a movement designed to spread knowledge and reduce higher-education...
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Florida Poised to Expand Online Providers – Digital Education
“Lawmakers in Florida, long a hospitable setting for virtual education, are on the verge of opening the door further to online providers, while also encouraging “MOOCs” in K-12.” Article in Education...
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What happens in distributed flips? Investigating students’ interactions with...
“Last month, Mike Caufield and I introduced the term “distributed flip” in an attempt to call attention to the emerging trend of flipping a course by making use of MOOC content (often “live” MOOC...
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Why edX is the Top Ranked MOOC
ListedTech put together an infographic which is their way of ranking a MOOC. “It’s a quick, easy way to put the various platforms together, according to WIred Academic, but does not take into account...
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What Professors Can Learn From ‘Hard Core’ MOOC Students
“If people who sit at their computers for tens of hours each week zapping virtual monsters are hard-core gamers, then massive online courses have led to a similarly obsessed breed of online student :...
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Clay Christensen takes closer look at how online learning will disrupt K-12...
“A new study from disruptive economics guru Clayton Christensen’s think tank gives more clarity into how online learning could shape the future of education.” See GigaOm article here.
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Are MOOCs Really the Future of the University? Let’s crowdsource some better...
“In the last few weeks, faculty at universities from Amherst to Duke to San Jose State have been pushing back at the incursion of MOOCs on their campuses. The San Jose professors offered this reason:...
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MOOCs do not represent the best of online learning
“But thus far, little attention has been paid to the quality of MOOCs. Quality in online learning can be defined in many ways: quality of content, quality of design, quality of instructional...
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Online classes can be enlightening, edifying, and engaging — but they’re not...
This author at The Verge “heads back to school with a seven-week MOOC.” “The Ancient Greeks” is taught by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, and he is basically the flower of the American university system. His...
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Outsourced Lectures Raise Concerns About Academic Freedom
“Students met for regular classes with Harold Riggs, a professor of computer science at the community college. Students were required to come for only 90 minutes each week, rather than the...
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MOOC as Courseware: Coursera’s Big Announcement in Context
“One key aspect of this announcement is Coursera’s full-fledged move in courseware as a new business line to complement their standalone courses. Courseware is the combination of “the curriculum,...
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EdX Wants YOU To Improve Their Online Learning Platform
“The edEx team made their code open source as of June 1, 2013 and are actively encouraging developers around the world to remix, rethink, and build onto the platform.” Crowdsourcing edX...
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Pedagogies of Scale | Critical Pedagogy
“Pedagogy is unfazed by numbers; it is never outweighed by scale. Good pedagogy can be enacted in a room with one or two students, or in an online environment with thousands. This is because...
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