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Les MOOC, déjà has been ? EDUcourses Launches Donations Appeal to Create a College Education at Tuition of $39.95 Per Course. EDUcourses Launches Donations Appeal to Create a College Education at Tuition of $39.95 Per Course Florida-based EDUcourses aims to disseminate 27 MOOCs – at an average cost of $39.95 per course – by the end of 2015.
Gainesville, FL, December 03, 2013 --(PR.com)-- Dr. Study: MOOC students are highly educated, job-oriented. When Penn announced its partnership with massive open online course provider Coursera, in April 2012, administrators lauded the education startup as a way for the University to push its access agenda forward on a global scale.
By making parts of a Penn education available to students worldwide, Coursera, administrators said, had the ability to revolutionize higher education. More than a year and a half later, Coursera is still a long way from realizing that goal. Curious Offers Online Learning Without the Commitment of MOOCs. Before co-founding lifelong learning platform Curious, CEO Justin Kitch was hanging out at home with his kids, taking some time off.
He had sold his first company, Homestead.com, to Intuit in 2007, and after a few years there, he was ready to spend some time at home. So he started doing as much as he could outdoors, and decided to devote some time to improving his guitar skills and a taking on a massive landscaping project at a new house. But he needed some help. Les MOOCs sont-ils faits pour l’entreprise. Les MOOCs agitent le monde de l’enseignement supérieur et plus largement la formation tout au long de la vie.
Why the MOOC Movement Is Now. As Georgia Tech gears up for its new MOOC-like master's degree program slated to launch this spring, The Wall Street Journal reports that applications from would-be students are dramatically outpacing fall '13 applications to Georgia Tech's residential program.
Offered jointly by the Georgia Institute of Technology and Udacity, with financial support and "advice" from AT&T, the two-year, wholly online master's degree program in computer science parallels Georgia Tech's well-regarded campus-based program. Proponents say this watershed initiative could spur further innovation. Because the courses aren't open to everyone, they aren't truly MOOCs (massive open online courses).
91% MOOC satisfaction rating for University of London International Programmes. London, UK (PRWEB UK) 4 November 2013 91% of respondents rated their experience as ‘Good’, ‘Very Good’ or ‘Excellent’ in a post-course survey of the massive open online courses (MOOCs) offered by the University of London International Programmes on the Coursera online platform.
The four free online courses offered, which began in June this year, were: Creative Programming for Digital Media & Mobile Apps, English Common Law: Structure and Principles, Malicious Software and its Underground Economy: Two Sides to Every Story, and The Camera Never Lies. An impressive 210,000 students signed up to the courses from countries all over the world, including the United States, India, Brazil, Spain and Canada, among many others.
The MOOCs took the format of video lectures, assessments based on automatically-graded multiple choice questions or peer reviews, and forums allowing the students to interact with the content, each other and course teams. Dan Foster: Are MOOCs the future of education? - Op-Ed Commentaries. My formal education ended almost 40 years ago.
Since that time, TVs have gotten larger and computers have gotten amazingly smaller. At my age, it's true that now I may be more concerned about my Social Security options than the latest smartphone applications, but I still hope that I haven't stopped wanting to learn. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- My formal education ended almost 40 years ago. Mooc rival OERu puts accreditation on menu. Coursework to be assessed for academic credit by member institutions A “university” that will allow students to study courses from 31 institutions around the world for free online is to launch this week – and is billed as a more attractive option than massive open online courses.
Students who complete an Open Educational Resources University course will be able to pay a fee to have their work assessed for academic credit, which would then be recognised by all the universities participating in the OERu. In theory, the students could approach any of the partner institutions with evidence of the credits they have amassed and apply for degrees. Once the university assessors are satisfied that the applicants can demonstrate the learning outcomes associated with its programmes, they would become eligible for graduation. Qu'attendre de FUN, le Mooc public à la française ? Le gouvernement a donc lancé ce lundi FUN (France université numérique), sa plate-forme nationale de cours en ligne dont les premiers contenus seront disponibles en janvier 2014.
Nouvel onglet. Il a quitté la tête de Google France fin mars pour lancer un MOOC B2B. Jean-Marc Tassetto revient sur les raisons qui l'ont poussé à faire ce choix et raconte en exclusivité sa nouvelle vie au JDN. JDN. Vous venez de lancer la Coorpacademy. Learn. Collaborate. Innovate. Take online courses from top Universities and educational institutions.
L'université mondialisée, Favilla. Open Education. The aim of this scoreboard is to highlight the huge potential that European institutions have in the world of OER and to help visualize this potential by compiling the existing European-provided MOOCs available on different open websites. European MOOCs are those provided by European institutions, regardless of the platform that hosts them. All of the MOOCs accounted for in the scoreboard are also listed in the MOOC aggregator on this website. Please refer to our FAQ for more information about how this scoreboard is built, what are the sources of information and how the visualization works.
Downloads Infographics To download a graphical version of the scoreboard in JPG Format click here. Made in Paris : Pierre Dubuc, Openclassrooms, dans Paris est à vous - 17/10. Free Online Course Materials. Le trio de LearningShelter boucle une première levée de fonds. Le monde du e-learning est aujourd’hui en pleine ébullition. Iversity launches as Europe's largest MOOC platform. Daphne Koller : Ce que nous apprenons de l'éducation en ligne. Micro-trottoir sur les MOOC auprès des étudiants de Lyon 3. DigiSchool média est allé à la rencontre des étudiants de l'Univesité Jean Moulin Lyon 3 pour avoir leurs avis sur les MOOC. Tech Titans And Online Education Orgs Team Up With The Open Education Alliance. Google, AT&T and a host of online education organizations are forming an alliance to develop standards for career readiness. Spearheaded by Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) provider, Udacity, the Open Education Alliance will explore standards for how to prepare and evaluate graduates.
The still-forming group of technology companies will help online education providers develop courses, tests, and certifications meant to supplement the use of a college degree in the hiring process. More details will be announced as Udacity Founder Sebastian Thrun takes the stage with California Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom at our Disrupt San Francisco conference today. To some extent, similar efforts are already being undertaken. Free course is first in UW System. By Alexandria Zamecnik.
Selon un sondage, la France est en retard sur les cours en ligne. La France est en retard en matière d'accessibilité des cours universitaires sur Internet pour 65 % des étudiants et 78 % des enseignants du supérieur, selon un sondage OpinionWay pour le ministère de l'enseignement supérieur dévoilé mercredi 2 octobre. Companies Create MOOCs To Fill Skills Gaps - Education - Online. Reinventing the MOOC model for the real world - Global Business Hub. Working as I do for a staffing firm, I couldn’t agree more.
In fact, when we launched our own MOOC program, we made employability a top objective. Here’s how the MOOC model can be modified to meet both the needs of the students and those of the companies they would like to work for. Employer Input in Curriculum Development Recently it was reported that Google, AT&T and others were teaming up with Udacity to “develop standards for career readiness†in the latter’s course offerings. The goal of this initiative is to ensure that the courses offered on the MOOC platform are aligned with the actual needs of the companies who may be interested in hiring MOOC students. If MOOCs are going to open career doors, letting employers tell you what courses you should teach is key.
More e-learning, but low interest. Behind The Scenes In The Making Of A MOOC. Students Say Online Courses Enrich On-Campus Learning. Stefan Kühn studies biochemistry at Stellenbosch University in the wine country of South Africa's Western Cape province. He was working on his master's thesis last year and writing in his usual way, which he describes as messy and free-flowing. Then he took a massive open online course (MOOC) from Duke University called Think Again: How to Reason and Argue. It changed the way he approached his thesis. Distance education 2.0. Moocs: from mania to mundanity. Coursera pushes online education in China. Online education services provider Coursera has partnered China's open.163.com to offer massive open online courses (MOOCs) in the Chinese market. Itself a MOOC site established by two computer science professors from Standford University, Coursera hopes the partnership will provide Chinese consumers better access to its content on one of China's most popular MOOC sites, open.163.com, which also hosts videos from TED and Khan Academy, reported Ctocio.
On the Coursera Zone China learning portal, students can access Chinese syllabus, feedback from their peers, Q&A sections, and discussion forums. The site also roped in Chinese social media website, Guokr, and online translator community Yeeyan, to translate Coursera's online courses or add Chinese scripts for the courses. In addition, Coursera is working with top Chinese-speaking universities such as Peking University and National Taiwan University to expand the Chinese course categories.
[Infographie] Les MOOCs débarquent en France ! MOOCs Try to Break the Language Barrier. Since their inception, companies like Coursera and edX, both purveyors of massively open online courses or MOOCS, have had grand plans to radically expand access to an elite education around the world. So you live in Lesotho? No problem. Join edX, and you can take Harvard courses for free online. That is, if you speak English. Les six défis des MOOCs. L’enseignement universitaire gratuit sur internet remet en question le modèle du campus.
Décryptage. Apprendre la programmation informatique, la mécanique quantique et la mythologie grecque en suivant des cours du MIT ou des universités Stanford et Harvard?