Multilingual MOOCs expand reach of U.S. idea
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are increasingly multilingual, and two of the largest providers of the free massive open online courses recently announced international initiatives — in…
Month: February 2014
Obama advisors bullish on MOOCs
A group of scientists and engineers who advise President Obama on national technology policy wrote in a Dec. 18 report that massive open online courses (MOOCs) could prove…
College mobile strategies are falling short
It's not so much that colleges and universities included in a recent survey had under-funded mobile technology initiatives. Many didn't have a mobile presence at all. While many…
Course credits for MOOC certificates: One likely pathway
How will MOOC-based learning aid learners in entering and performing in the workplace? We may imagine MOOC-based learning to serve as a qualification in two ways: let's call…
Symplicity Releases New Features and Enhancements in Career Services Manager
ARLINGTON, Va. February 21, 2014 – Symplicity today announced the winter update of its Career Services Manager™, the company’s market-leading ... Read more
What is a ‘flipped’ classroom? Is your kid in one right now?
If you are in college, I don’t mean to alarm you—but you are probably being experimented on. Stop checking for both of your kidneys; it’s not that kind…
Big Data doesn’t lie. Or does it?
If you’ve seen any indication that humans are getting smarter and more sophisticated, please inform me, and you don’t have to read what follows, Silicon Angle reports. For…
‘MOOCs are just one of the tools we have’
More than 210,000 people signed up when the University of Pittsburgh offered its first five massive open online courses last year. Though that was more than 11 times…
How colleges are finding tomorrow’s prodigies
Battushig Myanganbayar, a freshman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from Mongolia, asks me, "Have you ever heard of the 'Freshman 15'?" He's referring to the storied…
MOOCs may create a global trail of failed business schools
The Mooc (massive open online course) phenomenon is having a significant impact on higher education – especially business education, the Financial Times reports. In less than two years,…