MOOCs: Progress Report. Up Skilling with MOOCs - Learning Technology. MOOCs are rising across the world with the advent of open access VLEs and the proliferation of information in accessible formats.
If you are interested in taking a Massive Open Online Course you can do so on topics ranging from cheating to ancient Sanskrit. The three top companies that provide MOOCs for universities are Coursera, Udacity, and EdX all based in the United States. Recently the Open University has launched a new project that will bring together new technologies to launch a UK based MOOC site. The e-learning curve. Online learning took a new name and shape in 2012.
Now popularly known as MOOCs (Massively Open Online Courses), these course delivery consortiums spearheaded by faculty from Ivy League Universities have come as a boon for Indian students. With many students across the country actively participating and learning via these portals, a new paradigm is being established in the higher education domain. As of now, there are two major MOOC consortiums to which students are flocking: Coursera and edX. Coursera was founded by computer science professors Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller from Stanford University on a for-profit model; and edX was started by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University on a not-for-profit model. edX offers certificates on successful completion of the course, but this is not equivalent to credits.
Coursera is working with the American Council on Education to evaluate credit equivalency for its courses. Credibility and quality Faculty crunch According to M.S. Learning from the world. On a spring day in September 2012, Anant Agarwal , a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology taught a course called Circuits and Electronics.
Unlike his typical class of small numbers, 1,55,000 students across the world tuned in online to take notes. It was the beginning of Edx — Harvard and MIT’s initiative to take top-class education beyond physical barriers. Today, self-directed learners worldwide are acquiring knowledge of everything from differential equations to art history and taught by the world’s best educators. Be a MOOCher.
January 14, 2013: A recent New York Times article by Laura Pappano was titled ‘The Year of the MOOC’.
Are MOOCs the answer?The Hindu India News news 5751540. Coming to a computer near you. As part of a seismic shift in online learning that is reshaping higher education, Coursera, a year-old company founded by two Stanford University computer scientists, will announce on Tuesday that a dozen major research universities are joining the venture.
In the fall, Coursera will offer 100 or more free massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that are expected to draw millions of students and adult learners globally. Even before the expansion, Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng, the founders of Coursera, said it had registered 680,000 students in 43 courses with its original partners, Michigan, Princeton, Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania.
And some of them will offer credit. “This is the tsunami,” said Richard A. DeMillo, the director of the Center for 21st Century Universities at Georgia Tech. Unknown until last year To date, most MOOCs have covered computer science, math and engineering, but Coursera is expanding into areas like medicine, poetry and history. But even Mr. Hurdles. Are MOOCs the answer? The education which does not help the common mass of people to equip themselves for the struggle for life, which does not bring out strength of character, a spirit of philanthropy and the courage of a lion – is it worth the name?
— Swami Vivekananda The quote paints a picture of how education should be delivered in an ideal world. Future is online. You offer courses on other portals such as Coursera — how is FutureLearn different?
Futurelearn offers us the opportunity to explore a new online delivery channel, focussing on a different way to structure learning materials and learner support from that offered by Coursera. Additionally, we are able to work collaboratively with many of our peer universities in the U.K. who are not Coursera partners. We wish to reach young learners in U.K. schools, especially those who are educationally disadvantaged, and Futurelearn will be a good platform for that sort of educational outreach. What kind of courses is the University planning to offer? We will offer more courses at high school/ entry to university level, although there will be some courses at more advanced levels.
Moocs - are they a higher education game-changer or another damp squib? I have tried, really hard, not to write about Moocs.
But I can't keep it up forever, and what better time than the silly season to write about this phenomenon, which may transform higher education, or just turn out to be another damp squib. Moocs, for anyone who has switched off from the chattering of the policy/management class, are massive open online courses. The idea is that courses are uploaded to the "cloud" where they are available to everyone. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is credited with being first, and now some big global media companies have piled in. The catch, of course, is that credentials – which is higher education's core business – will remain as tightly rationed as ever.
Moocs: if we're not careful so-called 'open' courses will close minds - The Guardian - popbuzz.me.