The online education revolution drifts off course
One year ago, many were pointing to the growth of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, as the most important trend in higher education, NPR reports. Many saw…
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Instructure, UC Irvine reveal results of ‘The Walking Dead’ MOOC
Instructure today announced key findings from its massive open online course based on the hit TV show "The Walking Dead," a joint production with AMC and the University…
‘More’ not ‘or’: Fear and loathing the world of MOOCs
I recently completed teaching the second session of my Foundations of Business Strategy massively open online course (MOOC) through the Coursera platform and I continue to be amazed…
Saving universities in the era of MOOCs
In every school I’ve seen, teachers who want to incorporate multimedia learning objects into their courses have no choice but to produce those materials themselves. Teachers who want…
How should historians respond to MOOCs?
2012 was, in the words of the New York Times, the year of the MOOC. Massive open online courses have been hyped as a game changer, a way…
India embraces MOOCs, but what if it is a ‘lousy product’?
One hundred engineering colleges around India will rely heavily on virtual instruction under a new programme funded by India's Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) that kicked off…
MOOCs: Over already?
In the summer of 2011, Sebastian Thrun lit a fire under colleges around the world. The Stanford professor and a colleague filmed themselves lecturing for their course on…
This Tanzanian e-Learning enterprise is beating MOOCs by going local
Internet evangelists have pitched massively open online courses (MOOCs) as a boon for education, especially in low-income countries like Tanzania, Motherboard reports. Yet most seem completely oblivious to…
MOOCs: Because people want to learn
If you have been living on Mars for the last few years, MOOC stands for massive open online course. They have been around since about 2011, but they…
Who takes MOOCs
Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, represent one of the most momentous—and contentious—changes to higher education in decades. But the debate over the free Internet classes has been…