UW pilot MOOC shows hunger for learning
Massive Open Online Courses have allowed more than 30,000 people worldwide to enroll in a single University of Wisconsin class, which one professor said indicates students’ simple desire…
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Experience college minus the social life with MOOCs
What’s it like to be a college student in 2013? If you’d like to find out, enroll in a MOOC, i.e., Massive Open Online Course. MOOCs are available…
With MOOCs, the strong get stronger. But everybody else…
The MOOC opportunity is to expand access to learning broadly across the world, with great potential societal and economic benefits–e.g., larger numbers of educated people with shared knowledge,…
Faculty observe changes in university technology, campus culture during past 50 years
Fifty years ago, if students wanted to go to watch a basketball game, instead of crossing Lincoln Way to Hilton Coliseum, they would head the opposite direction, to…
Campus technology unable to withstand internet crashes
Computers and the internet are crucial to the daily lives of college students. At UNA, this is no exception. Students use technology to complete their homework, connect with…
Students flood Marquette’s first MOOC
Marquette’s first massive open online course, introduction to applied investing, enrolled 2,603 students as of this week, more than doubling its original allowance of 1,000 students. The MOOC…
Should business education be free?
It’s hardly surprising that the appeal of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) continues to grow. In the United States, the average college student graduates with almost $30,000 in…
Let them eat MOOCs
One late afternoon last spring I received a visit from a former student and budding entrepreneur. I usually schedule these meetings at the end of the workday. It…
New online app calculates true college costs
A new online app called College Abacus is making it easier for students and their families to get estimates in advance of how much financial aid colleges and…
What college will be like in 2023
Ten years from now college might not look too different from the outside—the manicured quads, the football games, the parties—but the learning experience students receive will probably be…