Can MOOCs and classrooms be squared?
Online classes have been around for at least four decades but have now received special attention due to the spread of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), which are…
Month: February 2014
MOOC team set to hire more staff, launch new courses
Massive open online courses have unveiled a gold mine of data to University faculty and staff, The Daily Illini reports. Typically, instructors evaluating the effectiveness of their teaching…
Will Big Data ‘equalize’ education?
By 2018, “the classroom will learn you,” IBM researchers predicted in their annual list of five innovations that will occur in the next half-decade, some with a major…
The first undergraduate degree in Big Data is here
Ohio State University will offer a Data Analytics undergraduate major beginning Fall 2014. The project is projected to cost $5-7 million per year to hire and train 50-60…
Technology and a ‘culture of disengagement’
Engineering students may leave school feeling less concerned with public welfare than when they entered, as schools feel pressure to introduce more technical instruction than ever before, according…
‘We don’t know what drives these learners’
Texas universities increasingly are opening up classes to anyone with an email address and an internet connection, even as they struggle to measure learner success and gain insight…
Better data means better education, online and in the lecture hall
Even critics of massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs, shouldn’t deny the value of the student data those courses generate. Teachers can only gather insights into…
Getting a gilt-edged biz education for less? MOOCs may make it possible
After nearly two decades working for the University of Chicago's executive MBA program, associate dean Patty Keegan thought she had heard just about every question a prospective student…
There is no demand for higher education
The champions of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, and other digitally mediated mass-produced education often speak of the “necessity” of transitioning to this model because of all…
Tuition-free university receives accreditation
The first graduating class of the tuition-free online University of the People just received an early graduation gift: accreditation. The seven students, who will graduate in April, are…