Un MOOC pour booster ton dossier !
Sur le blog "Histoires d'universités" de Pierre Dubois. MOOC Entrer à l’IUT : les codes pour booster ton dossier. Inscriptions ouvertes jusqu’au 15 juin 2018. Plus...
6 ways to increase MOOC retention
How do you prefer to shop? Where do you receive your news or entertainment? What medium do you use to communicate? Furthermore, can you function in your professional and/or personal life without “being online”? The suspicion is that your answers to the aforementioned questions demonstrate the inextricable linkage between all facets of our lives and the online environment. More...
Academy
Academy
Moodle, 2017/05/19
Academy, Moodle's take on a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platform, has launched. It's in a very preliminary state, with one institutional partner (Dublin City University) and seven courses (or, more accurately, seven course placeholders, as they are in pre-enrollment stage). More...
Chinese MOOC learners to top 10 million by year end
Chinese MOOC learners to top 10 million by year end
Beckie Smith, The PIE News, 2016/12/05
Only a few months after passing the 5 million user mark a new white paper projects that XuetangX, China's largest MOOC provider, will have 10 million users by year's end. More...
Why America’s MOOC pioneers have abandoned ship
Why America’s MOOC pioneers have abandoned ship
Jonathan Rees, More or Less Bunk, 2016/08/29
Jonathan Rees citing Alex Usher is a bit like Bernie Sanders citing Ronald Reagan. There's an incongruity there. Usher's point is that MOOCs never made money. More...
The MOOC revolution that wasn't
The MOOC revolution that wasn't
Audrey Watters, The Daily Dot, 2016/08/29
'Tis the season to dissect the "failure" of MOOCs - or, to be specific, the rarefied Silicon Valley version of MOOCs, which is all anyone ever talks about. That narrative was that "MOOC startups Udacity, Coursera, and edX all promised that their free online courses with massive enrollment figures would 'democratize education.'" Of course that didn't happen. More...
Online learning punishes minority students, but video chats can help
Online learning is expanding in Canada at a rate of about 8.75 per cent every year. This shift to online environments has redefined the format of education. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), for example, have become wildly popular, with more than 700 universities offering 6,850 courses to 58 million students in 2016. More...
Professors Have Taken Over the MOOCs
By Joshua Kim. The old story was that MOOCs are just another overhyped educational technology, one more example of interests outside of the academy (investors, technologists) seeking to “disrupt college” without any true understanding of how higher education actually works. More...
MOOCs Are "Dead." What's Next? Uh-oh.
By John Warner. One overhyped technology fades as another surges. More...