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Jobs - (Navigation privée) Accessibility Specialist EdX is looking for a knowledgeable and resourceful Accessibility Specialist to join our engineering team. This position will work in a highly collaborative environment and support edX’s product teams, its educational partners, and the open source community. The Accessibility Specialist is responsible for identifying and suggesting potential solutions for accessibility barriers based on the W3C WCAG 2.0 standards as well as compliance with the ADA, Section 508, and other accessibility related laws. This position requires the ability to communicate clearly and persuasively with executives, engineers, edX partners, and the public. learn more about this position Principal Software Engineer EdX is looking for a full stack engineer who can contribute to its Open Source learning platform. learn more about this position Software Engineer edX is looking for engineers who can contribute to its Open Source learning platform. learn more about this position Test Engineer
5 Startups Transforming Online Education - (Navigation privée) Zev Gotkin is an entrepreneur and founder of L'Mala, a writing firm specializing in website content development, blogs, branding, and social media promotion. He can be reached at wgotkin@gmail.com. As the global economy continues to shift, there's an increased demand for services in higher education. These services are only being spurred on by the more than one billion people who have joined the middle class in the last decade. This leaves entrepreneurs with the opportunity to create exciting new ways for individuals to learn online. 1. 2tor 2tor is the first startup of its kind to offer full degree programs online at top-tier universities. 2tor partners with universities across the country to help them build and market their own online degree programs. 2tor is making waves for its web-based infrastructure that allows professors to easily share information with students, create interactive lessons, and provide lectures and opportunities for social interaction among students. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Online Education's Dirty Secret — Awful Retention by Peter Reinhardt I’m extremely excited about online education, but I’ve noticed that online education products have a really serious problem: low retention. I’ve used Coursera, EdX, Hack Design, Duolingo, Codecademy… and I’ve churned from all of them. I bet you did too! I don’t want to tear down these products or the people who’ve built them, I’m rooting for them all the way. They just need some tough love, and so this article explains why I churned: the starting commitment is too high, the re-engagement emails are terrible, and the pacing is impersonal. How low IS their retention? Coursera founder Daphne Koller said last year that only 7-9% of students who sign up actually “finish” the class. The Coursera class Introduction to Operations Management had 87,000 people sign up, but only 4,360 views on the final lecture. Probabalistic Graphical Models taught by Daphne Koller herself signed up well over 35,000 people (announced a while before the class started, via email). How can we fix it? Are you serious?