12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free. All education is self-education.
Period. It doesn’t matter if you’re sitting in a college classroom or a coffee shop. We don’t learn anything we don’t want to learn. Those people who take the time and initiative to pursue knowledge on their own are the only ones who earn a real education in this world. Study: Online Courses May Be The Worst For Minorities And At-Risk Students.
“Overall, the online format had a significantly negative relationship with both course persistence and course grade, indicating that the typical student had difficulty adapting to online courses,” writes Di Xu and Shanna Smith Jaggars of Columbia University.
“Specifically, we found that males, black students, and students with lower levels of academic preparation experienced significantly stronger negative coefficients for online learning compared with their counterparts, in terms of both course persistence and course grades.” The research team controlled for an impressive array of student characteristics, class types and demographics, and found a negative impact across most of their variables. Interestingly, they also looked at courses where more than 75 percent of the students were at risk, and found that the presence of at-risk peers made drop out all the more likely. Coursera Adds 29 Schools, 90 Courses And 3 New Languages To Its Online Learning Platform. It’s almost as if there’s an arms race in online education.
Which MOOC platform can expand the fastest? Place your bets now. On the heels of edX’s announcement that it will be expanding internationally with the addition of six new schools (bringing its total to 12), Coursera is doing some addition of its own. Today, the massive online course platform announced that 29 universities from around the globe have agreed to bring their courses online (for free) via Coursera. The new members will join the 33 institutions already on board, bringing Coursera’s grand total to 62. Online Learning Platform, edX, Goes International With The Addition Of Six New Schools. When it comes to online education and massive open online courses (a.k.a.
“MOOCs”), Udacity and Coursera have stolen most of the attention. MOOCS: 12 Reasons for universities not to panic. Don’t believe the hype?
There has been an extraordinary level of hype in higher education (and beyond) about Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs. 2 Profs, 75,000 Students + 4 Ways to Make the Humanities MOOC Work. Licensed Under CCSA When Dr.
Al Filreis leads a small group of students through a nuanced interpretation of Emily Dickinson’s “I dwell in possibility,” he sits with them shoulder-to-shoulder, pen in hand, prompting one after the other to tease out the meaning of Dickinson’s words. If you’ve ever asked your students to conduct close readings, perhaps there’s nothing all that unusual about this, but for one detail. Filreis is not only teaching the seven who sit around the small table at the Kelly Writers House in Philadelphia, PA, but also 32,337 others who sit at their own tables all over the world. As one of the first to teach a humanities-based MOOC some consider Filreis a pioneer in education. He sees it differently. “This is not anything earth-shatteringly new for me,” says the UPenn instructor of teaching Modern and Contemporary American Poetry (ModPo, for short) on Coursera. Find Courses ~ MOOC. More on Massive Open Online Courses.
To MOOC or not to MOOC? Is the one of the underlying questions of the week long MOOC being run this week by Hybrid Pedagogy.
Broadcast Education: a Response to Coursera. Coursera is silly.
Educational technology news has been all a-flutter over the last few months about the work that Coursera is doing to bring higher education into the open. Online Learning: More Than Just a MOOC « TechKNOW Tools. As a life-long learner, I have appreciated engaging and interacting with a wide variety of educators in a few Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
The concept of a MOOC is has been around for a while. In previous blog posts, I have shared the definition of a MOOC and my participation and experience. I have appreciated learning from the #eci831 and #CCK09 MOOC facilitators, such as Alec Couros, George Siemens & Stephen Downes. Even more, I appreciate the knowledge shared by invited speakers and the connected learning participants who I continue to engage and exchange with beyond the course structure. MOOCs are now on the tip of everyone’s tongue due to recent education technology start-ups who are now designing MOOC-like courses and creating partnerships with many accredited higher education institutions.
Coursera Hits 1 Million Students, With Udacity Close Behind - Wired Campus. Breakdown of where Coursera students live.
Coursera, an upstart company working with selective universities to offer free online courses, announced this week that it had reached one million registered students. A rival company, Udacity, which also offers what have become known as Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOC’s, says it has more than 739,000 students. What is necessary and what is contingent in MOOC design. MOOCs EDUCAUSE. Campus Connection: Is free online course movement good for higher ed? The more I learn about so-called massive online open classrooms, or MOOCs, the more I understand why the masses love them. And the more I learn about MOOCs, the more I can’t help but wonder if too many institutions are putting the proverbial cart before the horse as they dive headfirst into the latest higher education craze. Class2Go: Stanford’s New Open-Source Platform For Online Education. The cost of higher education in the U.S. today is ridiculous. Student debt shot north of $1 trillion earlier this year, for example. It’s not surprising, then, that the adoption of web and mobile learning tools is skyrocketing, toppling old modes of learning and creating new ones.
Massive Open Online Courses. CrearVirtual: Cursos Masivos en Línea (MOOC) Últimamente hemos estado comentando sobre los Cursos Masivos en Línea (MOOCs en inglés) intentando abrir un debate sobre algunos aspectos claves. Mis primeras impresiones se consolidaron después de haber pasado el Curso de Moodle: Google Power Searching ( Observé algunas dificultades de participantes que no eran precisamente debido al dominio o no del inglés, a la vez intente preguntarme que distinguía estos cursos de los que usualmente hacemos en algunas de nuestras Universidades, en mi caso en Ecuador ahora. La primera reflexión fue en torno a la evaluación, en este caso particular la evaluación estaba muy orientada al análisis y solución de casos reales, de la práctica profesional.
Esto es algo que por lo general no se contempla en muchos de los cursos en línea que hacemos. Algunas de las preguntas que se hacían en ese curso era poco probables que yo se las hubiera podido hacer a un auditorio "convencional" de mi medio. Coursera reaches 1 million students worldwide. Just four months since officially launching, online education startup Coursera says it’s hit the one million mark for enrolled students. In a blog post Thursday, the company, which reported 680,000 students less than a month ago, said its students come from every country in the world.
About 39 percent of students are from the U.S., followed by Brazil, India, China, Canada and the U.K. Coursera partners with universities and colleges around the world to offer massive open online courses (or MOOCs) taught by leading professors. Four weeks ago, it said that it’s partnering with a dozen new schools, bringing its total to 16. In addition to elite U.S. universities, including Stanford, Princeton and the University of Michigan, it has added international schools such as the University of Edinburgh, University of Toronto and Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), to its list of partners.
Three Kinds of MOOCs « Lisa's. By Lisa, on August 15th, 2012 We are so into MOOCs now that it’s too much for me. Gotta apply Ockham’s Razor 2.0 to this stuff. At the Ed-Media conference, I attended a session by Sarah Schrire of Kibbutzim College of Education in Tel Aviv. In her discussion of Troubleshooting MOOCs, she noted the dificulties in determining her own direction in offering a MOOC in the “Stanford model” MOOCs versus the “connectivism” MOOCs. Is MOOC Suitable For Corporate & Workplace Learning? Some critical reflections on MOOCs. What a MOOC Does - #Change11.