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Should 'real' students do an online course on the side? Universities have started giving away their content free as "massive open online courses", with the satisfyingly ridiculous acronym mooc (I challenge you to say it three times with a straight face). Eleven top UK universities recently announced they were joining the Open University to launch FutureLearn, in a bid to catch up with the elite US institutions that have led the way in teaching huge numbers online. It all sounds great for people who, for one reason or another, can't go to a traditional university. Well, I've signed up for a mooc in microeconomics. Why else would a university student consider a mooc? And before you can use an online course to help you get a job, employers have to learn what they are and respect them. Moocs are extra tuition from a different perspective. Do moocs pose a threat to old school universities? Probably not. Moocs still have teething problems.
The Simple Things Lumina Foundation | Goal 2025: to increase the proportion of Americans with high-quality college degrees or credentials to 60% by 2025. DNF - An extraordinarily popular online fighting game edReformer Founder of Lynda.com Talks About Future of Learning Online (Video) - Kara Swisher - Media To Lynda Weinman, it’s funny that the online learning site she and her husband founded in 1995 suddenly seems like an overnight success. “Yes, only two decades in the making,” she joked at a lunch I had with her last week. But there certainly has been a big buzz around Lynda.com — named after Weinman — after the Carpinteria, Calif., company raised $103 million a month ago in its first major funding. And, last week, as part of a major expansion globally using that money, it bought Austria-based video2brain to add to its online course offerings in a range of computer and other skills, in a number of European languages. It’s all part of the plan to dominate the continuing education market, and to bring 60 more employees and a pile of lessons to a service that competes with a range of others, such as Codecademy and Treehouse in the business and computer learning space. Currently, Lynda has 83,000 videos in 1,500 courses, and close to 500 employees.
American Scientist Online NewSchools Venture Fund: A non-profit venture philanthropy firm working to transform public education for low-income children MWNF Traveller’s Blog One of our Syrian partners and colleagues sent us this description of his today’s life in Damascus. Syria is called “The Cradle of Civilizations”; or as one French scholar put it: “Everyone has two nationalities: one of his own motherland and that of Syria”. This speaks of itself about Syria, the impact of which made a lot of people from all over the globe to come and visit this beautiful and charming country. They wanted to learn from the Syrians, to see the alphabet they’ve presented to the world in Mari, to enjoy the charms of Palmyra, Crac des Chevaliers, Apamea, Busra among many others. The Syrians deserve better live. aring to be arrested for nothing but being a Syrian wishing to be free and to live in dignity and to enjoy self respect. When the Syrians started calling for freedom and the right to live the lives they deserve, they did this in peaceful means for over nine months before turning it into an armed movement. Traffic transports ceases at ca. 15h00.
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