By O'Neal Spicer. These reports cover a range of attitudinal questions on ed tech, online education, and new models of delivering course content. One of the key findings of this year’s report, as described in a Gallup blog, is that there is still a high level of disagreement among faculty of the relative merits of online courses versus traditional face to face courses, but there are some important nuances to the results. More...
How the Jobs to be Done Theory Applies to Online Education
By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How the Jobs to be Done Theory Applies to Online Education
Tanya Roscorla, ConVerge, 2016/11/29
This article states, "According to the jobs-to-be-done theory, customers hire products or services to do a specific job for them, and those providers can adapt their offerings by understanding the job they've been hired to do." OK, fair enough. So what is the job students expect MOOCs to do? It depends on the student. More...