NovoEd to offer first team-based Spanish-language MOOC
A recent study of one MOOC found that students from 194 countries participated in the course and 16 percent of the students spoke Spanish. Yet, the vast majority…
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Can we move beyond the MOOC to reclaim open learning?
The mushrooming of university-sponsored Massive Open Online Courses, also known as MOOCs or xMOOCs, over the last year and a half through the growth of the Coursera, Udacity…
Top 10 reasons for low MOOC completion rates
Massive open online course (MOOC) completion rates hover around 7 percent worldwide, and beyond stringing criticism from MOOC skeptics in higher education, there’s not much documentation for why…
The evolution of MOOCs in higher education
From a stopgap measure for under-served college students to a massive enterprise forming new partnerships with research and public universities alike, the role of massive open online courses…
New waypoints in the MOOC debate
In a year, MOOCs have gone from being a niche service for underserved markets, to a short-term fix for course supply problems in funding-starved public colleges, to a…
Top 3 free eBook sources for MOOC students
Students attracted to massive open online courses (MOOC) for their accessibility are sometimes required to purchase textbooks for MOOCs that offer nothing but a certificate upon completion.
What it’s like to teach a MOOC
The University of Minnesota is leaping into free, digital classes. The massive open online courses, or MOOCs, will be open to anyone in Minnesota and anywhere else in…
MOOC madness reflection: a student’s view from inside UC Berkeley
After attending the Technapex’s MOOC Madness event last Monday, I found myself both excited about the potential MOOCs have to expand the reach of higher education, as well…
The best (maybe the only?) low bandwidth MOOC
Do you feel like you are missing out on the MOOC revolution not because you lack the four to six hours a week to devote to a course,…
What is a massive open online course anyway?
If you are reading this, you are probably curious about Massive Open Online Courses, also known as MOOCs, a form of distance learning that some say is changing…