By Audrey Watters. MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCs
The University of Tokyo has joined edX.
Harvard and MIT have released visualizations (and open sourced the visualization tools) on their MOOC data.
“MOOCs are proving to be a great tool for employee training,” tweeted Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng (a little bit of a different message than “democratizing higher education.” But there ya go.)
And speaking of “democratizing higher education lulz,” Inside Higher Ed looks at what Cornell, Princeton, and Yale think about MOOCs.
“The first British massive open online course to offer students the option to pay for academic credit has ended, with none of its participants opting to fork out for official recognition,” writes the Times Higher Education. Nice lede. Important detail: the class was on Vampire Fictions, which probably isn’t something folks are clamoring for formal recognition of, ya know.
It looks as though there’s growing interest in using MOOCs to teach AP classes. According to Campus Technology, “The University of Houston System is launching its first three massive open online courses (MOOCs), two of them targeted to high school seniors preparing for advanced placements tests and one for K–12 teachers. The classes will be offered free through Coursera.”
Paging physics teachers: join a MOOC to build a MOOC on introductory physics course. This course is being organized by Dave Cormier, so it’s “cMOOC meets xMOOC.” More...
EUA-LERU-EARTO fringe session at European Commission Innovation Convention
On Monday 10 March 2014, EUA, the League of European Research Universities (LERU) and the European Association of Research and Technology Organisations (EARTO) will jointly host a fringe session at the European Commission’s Innovation Convention in Brussels (10-11 March).
As part of the EU Innovation Union flagship initiative, the Innovation Convention aims to provide a platform to debate and inform policies that will contribute towards the building of a research and innovation eco-system in Europe that can support this objective.
In parallel to the main programme organised by the European Commission, EUA, together with LERU and EARTO, will be organising from 15.15 to 16.30 a fringe session that will focus on the Innovation Growth Machine in Europe and the contribution of universities and RTOs. Speakers will include Prof. Reinhilde Veugelers (KU Leuven/Bruegel/ERC Scientific Council), Dr Jens Neugebauer (Fraunhofer) Prof. Enrico Macii (Politecnico di Torino) and Dr Edoardo Rabino (Fiat-Chrysler).
Meanwhile, EUA’s President Professor Helena Nazaré will take part in the fringe session on “The ERA Partnership as backbone of the European innovation eco-system(s)” that will take place from 14.00 to 15.15.
More information on how to register is available on the Convention website.
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