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22 novembre 2017

MOOCs Reborn: Online Education’s Student-Friendly Makeover Promises Better

http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickheader.jpgTechno-News Blog. A number of MOOCs have taken on the challenge to increase course completion, crafting innovations that are now yielding completion rates that are up to five times the average. They have accomplished this through seeking to ameliorate the “loneliness”—that is, the social isolation—of the long-distance learner. More...

22 novembre 2017

MIT Moves Beyond the MOOC to Court Companies, Professional Learners

http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickheader.jpgTechno-News Blog. There are few key differences between MIT Professional Education’s new and existing online offerings. For starters, Digital Plus will not be “open enrollment,” meaning the courses will only be available to paying companies or organizations. More...

21 novembre 2017

Hyperledger Launches edX MOOC about BlockChain

http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickheader.jpgTechno-News Blog. Hyperledger, an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies, announced today the availability of its first free Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) — Blockchain for Business: An Introduction to Hyperledger. The free, self-paced online course is offered through edX.org, the nonprofit online learning platform founded in 2012 by Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). More...

21 novembre 2017

Report: 59% of employed data scientists learned skills on their own or via a MOOC

http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickheader.jpgTechno-News Blog. Data scientists are in high demand and short supply, but they may not need a degree in computer science to get a job, according to a new report from Kaggle. The majority of employed data scientists gained their skills through self-learning or a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) rather than a traditional computer science degree, according to a survey from data scientist community Kaggle, which was acquired by Google Cloud earlier this year. More...

21 novembre 2017

Are MOOCs, Bootcamps and Other Alternative Education Options Effective?

Are MOOCs, Bootcamps and Other Alternative Education Options Effective?
Kara Voght, U.S. News & World Report, 2017/07/24
According to this article, "A new study questions the quality of these programs, as well as the evidence that demonstrates their efficacy." When an article questions whether any form of online learning is "effective", the first question to ask is, "what do they mean by effective?" This is what I wondered on reading this article. I was disappointed, on multiple accounts. More...

21 novembre 2017

What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?

What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?
Jeffrey R. Young , Barbara Oakley, EdSurge, 2017/07/26
Some pragmatic thinking with a pinch of a push for content knowledge. The premise is that MOOCs are actually going to challenge the classroom model, and ultimately, universities and the teaching professors. More...

21 novembre 2017

Adult MOOC Learners as Self-Directed: Perceptions of Motivation, Success, and Completion

Adult MOOC Learners as Self-Directed: Perceptions of Motivation, Success, and Completion
Jamie Loizzo, Peggy A. Ertmer, William R. Watson, Sunnie Lee Watson, Online Learning , 2017/07/17
While it's true that you can't learn everything you need to learn from surveys of large numbers of people, if you are doing in-depth studies with a small number of people (12, in this case) then you have to resist the temptation to generalize. More...

21 novembre 2017

Making friends in MOOCs: It is No Fluke!

Making friends in MOOCs: It is No Fluke!
Curt Bonk, TravelinEdMan, 2017/07/14
Curt Bonk summarizes some of the work from a journal article on the subject (unfortunately he doesn't offer a link or even a title for the article) about whether people make friends in MOOCs. He seems to focus on whether instructors make friends, which seems to me to be totally beside the point - I would be looking for MOOC participants to make friends with each other. More...

21 novembre 2017

“The best part was the contact!”: Understanding postgraduate students’ experiences of wrapped MOOCs

“The best part was the contact!”: Understanding postgraduate students’ experiences of wrapped MOOCs
Tasneem Jaffer, Shanali Govender, Cheryl Brown, Open Praxis, 2017/06/30
I generally think of the "wrapped MOOC" as neither massive, nor open, nor online, so I view them with a bit of scepticism. And we learn very little about the actual details of the implementation in this case. More...

21 novembre 2017

Traditional assessment rewards the wrong behaviors-here’s why

Traditional assessment rewards the wrong behaviors-here’s why
Alan November, eSchool News, 2017/06/16
"Students as young as first grade can learn to solve complex linear equations—an algebraic concept that generally isn’t taught until the seventh or eighth grade." How's that for a lede. More...

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