The start-up company is capitalizing on a lemming-like rush among elite colleges, but all it offers is the massification of education.
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AT&T is joining Georgia Institute of Technology and MOOC education provider Udacity to support the first professional Online Master of Science degree in computer science that can be earned completely through the “massively open online” format. Delete the scoop?
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Depuis que j’ai fini mon cours sur la gamification sur Coursera en novembre 2012, j’avoue que j’ai été tenté suite à cette première expérience positive de m’inscrire à d’autres cours et surtout... Delete the scoop?
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New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman discussed the evolution of massive open online courses with The Daily Pennsylvanian Delete the scoop?
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Darden School (Business School) at the University of Virginia (Photo credit: Wikipedia) One can hardly go a day without seeing an article touting the end of the University as we know it as the rise of online education, and in particular Massively ... Delete the scoop?
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This article is by Bruce Guile, president and co-founder of Course Gateway, an online education consultancy, and David Teece, executive director of the Institute of Business Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of... Delete the scoop?
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The nonprofit MOOC took its first big step in that direction with the release of its XBlock SDK, the underlying architecture supporting edX course content. Delete the scoop?
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Is peer grading an effective assessment method for open and online learning? What about in MOOCs where student feedback may be the only means of determining a pass or fail in a course? This posts examine peer grading and suggests what conditions must be present in order for peer grading to be effective. Via Andreas Link 
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March 9, 12:09 PM
Interested to see how this evolves in online learning environments. Good way to keep students engaged and learning from each other. Delete the scoop?
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I’ve been familiar with the basic concepts around the use of open badges for a while now but I have to admit that they hadn’t really grabbed my attention front and centre until, that is, I got my first badge almost by accident yesterday Delete the scoop?
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While other universities move quickly to offer courses online for free, Carnegie Mellon University is instead starting for-profit efforts designed to capture segments of the education market. Delete the scoop?
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When will employers start valuing signals other than college degrees? Delete the scoop?
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“The fruit ripens slowly,” the Guru Nisargadatta Maharaj once observed, “but it drops suddenly.” In a similar fashion, MOOCs (or massive open online courses) seem to have arrived almost out of nowhere, in quick succession – first Udacity in February of last year, followed by Coursera in April, then edX in May. 
cafel23mooc's curator insight,
March 9, 3:52 PM
EdX regroupe 5 universités indépendantes (MIT, Harvard, the University of California at Berkeley, Georgetown University, and Wellesley College) et 15 collèges et universités de l'Etat du Texas. En moins d'un an; les 25 cursus proposés ont regroupé 700 000 personnes. Le maître mot du directeur d'EdX, Agarwal : l'efficience, c'est à dire un ratio entre la qualité et les coûts. “Nous avons une mission radicalement différente des plateformes privées", affirme Agarwal ." Nous n'avons pas de but lucratif. Nos produits sont open source. Notre technologie est pour tout le monde". Delete the scoop?
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Massive open online courses’ lack of study support, for-profit aims may not be ethical, Online and Open-Access Learning in Higher Education conference hears. Delete the scoop?
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Duke University publie un rapport très complet (21 pages) sur ce que les statistiques d’apprentissage du cours Bioelectricity: A Quantitative Approach, proposé cet automne sur Coursera, ont appris à... Delete the scoop?
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In the end, MOOCs and online programs primarily help those who are self motivated to learn, and the vast majority of these people would have figured out how to educate themselves, whether in college or on their own, regardless of whether or not online courses are available.
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Jason R Levine's comment,
May 3, 4:21 PM
There need not be a dichotomy of online learning and having the personalized attention of a teacher/coach. This article, and others like it, are misguided if their point is that online education will forever remain a fantasy; they are valuable articles in that they correctly note what's limiting and/or dysfunctional now to set us on course to the new "reality" of online and blended learning being superior to traditional "brick and mortar" education.
Mihail Gavrilov's curator insight,
May 4, 9:36 AM
интернет-обучение - преимущественно фантазии. Оно подходит только для мотивированных, целеустремленных, склонных к самостоятельному поиску знаний 
silvermanmc's curator insight,
May 6, 1:56 PM
Learning has almost always been a social endeavor... online learning that approximates such...is potentially more effective... Delete the scoop?
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A different kind of massive open online course (Mooc) platform, launched today, will provide students with the small collaborative learning groups that have so far been hard to find in the Mooc format. Delete the scoop?
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As new models of digital learning sweep across higher education, colleges and universities across the globe are scrambling to get on board and make their course catalogs available to a wider audience via the Web. Delete the scoop?
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Teenage applicants from as far afield as India and Mongolia are catching western colleges’ attention by taking so-called “massive online open courses” designed for older students. Delete the scoop?
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In the largest survey of instructors who have taught massive open online courses, The Chronicle heard from critics, converts, and the cautious.
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Deb Nystrom, REVELN Consulting's curator insight,
March 18, 12:40 PM
There is some synchroncity here that this article is showing up while I'm listening to a professor at UM talk about Harvard choosing a MOOC for accounting for their entry level accounting (Brigham Young) and outsourcing professors. Professor: Wally Hopp, Associate Dean for Faculty and Research Herrick Professor of Manufacturing, Ross School of Business Positively Lean: A Path to Efficiency and Energization? Examples: Henry Ford, Joe at GM Powertrain, FelPro (300% ROI on Employee Benefits, no turnover > sold to Federal Mogul) Key themes in the blend:
Apple >> Change the world Patagonia >> Corporate responsibility (Don't buy what you don't need) Questions:
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Coursera is now in an enviable position among MOOC providers: they have more students than all the other providers combined (Udacity, edX, FutureLearn, peripheral players like LMS companies). Delete the scoop?
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Le MOOC “Gestion de projet” qui démarrera le 18 mars prochain et compte déjà plus de 2000 pré-inscrits, est le premier xMOOC français à proposer un certificat à la clé. Delete the scoop?
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Massive Open Online Courses might seem like best way to use the Internet to open up education, but you’re thinking too small. Technology can turn our entire lives into learning experiences.
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Microlearning and socialstructed learning. Delete the scoop?
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How many times have you heard the statement that ‘MOOCs have a completion rate of 10%’ or ‘MOOCs have a completion rate of less than 10%’? Delete the scoop?
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President Obama proposed an option for overhauling college accreditation that could allow MOOCs to charge tuition and accept federal money. Delete the scoop?
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Two major providers of massive open online courses have announced new expansions of their stables of university partners, which now overlap for the first time.
cafel23mooc's curator insight,
March 9, 11:19 AM
Les dichotomies public/privée, but lucratif ou non, open source ou non, la taille des plateformes sont autant d'éléments qui se conjuguent lorsqu'il s'agit de choisir (ou de ne pas choisir) entre les deux types de plateformes. Delete the scoop?
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