The advantage of learning from MOOC mistakes
When it comes to MOOCs, the University of New Mexico is leapfrogging to the head of the line. By waiting until now to offer its first massive open…
Month: January 2014
The MOOC stumble: Lessons from Napster
I have been a long time proponent of online education and have been offering webcasts of my classes since 2001. However, I was a little skeptical about the…
MIT’s Big Data education set to get underway
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT) is offering its first professional learning course tackling the ins and outs of Big Data, a subject near and dear to educators and…
MOOCs give new meaning to CSU’s mission of outreach and education
Colorado State University has given new meaning to its mission of education and outreach through a new series of free online courses, popularly known as MOOCs (massive open…
Predixion pushes Big Data analytics into schools
Predixion Software is providing its data analytics products at no charge to universities, joining many other vendors in seeking future sales among the next generation of data scientists,…
Online education is trying very hard to make itself more respectable
I’m currently enrolled in a free online Coursera class on terrorism through a university located in the Netherlands, in which I watch lectures and complete assignments from the…
Distance learning: who’s doing it now?
Distance learning is nothing new. In 1938, the International Council for Correspondence Education was founded in Canada, The Guardian reports. In the same year, they held their first…
Educators increasingly wary of online course retention
Online courses have never been more advanced or plentiful, but academic leaders haven’t been as skeptical of the courses in at least a decade, a new report said.…
More good news for the hybrid learning model
A new report published in the Higher Education Academy reveals what many in the ed-tech community have long suspected: incorporating technology in the classroom along with traditional teaching…
Bursting the MOOC bubble
After a couple of years basking in the spotlight the tide seems to have turned in MOOC-land. We seem to be heading for the dreaded trough of disillusionment.…