Are MOOCs really the next big thing?
I like the idea of MOOC's, I really do - even to the point that I started to set one up using Moodle in my last employed post…
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University education: maturing of the MOOC?
Even the largest university lecture hall can only squeeze in a couple of thousand students, so addressing her remarks to an audience of 40,000 was, British-born, California-based Professor…
Coursera’s online insight: Short classes are education’s future
Andrew Ng is at it again. The cofounder of Coursera — a Silicon Valley startup that offers free college-level classes to millions of online visitors – is politely…
UT joins growing number of universities offering free online classes
Michael Starbird, a University of Texas math professor, was in his element one day last week, teaching students to puzzle their way through the concept of infinity using…
Move over MOOCs
Massive open online courses, or MOOCs, offered by universities have the potential to shake up education. People yearn to learn, but many enroll on MOOC courses only to…
Overcome 3 common challenges of net price calculators
Net price calculators may be good in theory – the online tools give families a picture of which colleges are affordable – but using them can present some…
LOOCing into the future of digital learning
A new local open online course—or LOOC—is helping students develop digital literacy. A pioneering offering from the Faculty of Education and UBC Library is enabling UBC students, staff…
Don’t be fooled into thinking that big data just relies on technology
As big data becomes increasingly popular, it's occasionally worth taking a step back to think about what companies are looking to achieve as well as the necessary elements,…
Much hyped, MOOCs manuever toward version 2.0
Since then-Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun opened his Fall 2011 Introduction to Artificial Intelligence course to tens of thousands students around the world, there has been a lot of…
College online courses are costly, result in high drop-out rate, report says
Online education -- considered by some a savior of sorts for cash-depleted universities and community colleges -- actually costs more in the long run and does not deliver…