...how they can be used in secondary schools (high schools, K12) to enhance lifelong learning skills and put more students on route to find their own meaningful, professional life...
MOOC was started with the aim of making “learning” open to all via a digital platform. There are quite a few studies which are conducted to know the demography of learners who enroll for MOOC. But the aim of most of such research is limited to find out the percentage of learners in each category. For instance, a study from Stanford University’s Learning Analytics group described that there are four types of students based on their study: ...
... So where does that leave the nonprofit edX, considered one of the “Big Three” MOOC providers?
With over 90 partner institutions, $60 million in funding and more than six million learners, the last few years have marked a time of intensive experimentation for edX and its partner institutions, many of whom had never offered courses online...
EMMA is the European Multiple MOOC aggregator, developed with an EU project. The EMMA team recently launched a webinar series primarily targeting people interested in becoming EMMA MOOC providers, but interesting for everybody involved in MOOC experiences. In this first webinar in the EMMA series...
... Peter Decherney, a Cinema Studies professor at Penn, contributed to recent efforts towards a copyright exemption for Massive Open Online Courses that require content protected under the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act. On Oct. 28, the exemption was approved by the U.S. Copyright Office, meaning Decherney and his colleagues had accomplished what they had set out to do...
The digital revolution in higher education has happened. The digital revolution in higher education has happened. In the fall of 2012, the most recent semester with complete data in the U.S., four million undergraduates took at least one course online...
Les MOOC constituent-ils une véritable révolution de l’apprentissage ?
C’est la question qui était posée par les organisateurs du Sommet Mondial de la Mémoire et de l’Apprentissage qui se déroulait du 2 au 7 novembre dernier. Je clôturais la série de webinaire avec ce thème des MOOC...
When it comes to streaming video, binge watching “Scandal” or catching up on past seasons of “Arrested Development” might come to mind. Now, here come's Apple TV to make us all feel guilty about that.
Its latest version includes an app from Coursera, a provider of massive open online courses, or MOOCs...
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) will offer free online the first semester of its masters degree in supply chain management and students who do well will be able to transfer into the regular degree...
Les DRH ne se contentent plus de piocher dans les catalogues de formation. Ils développent des outils internes qui garantissent souplesse et agilité, et font des collaborateurs des acteurs de leur employabilité...
... Compiled earlier this month by Dhawal Shah, founder of the MOOC aggregatorClass Central, the report summarizes data on MOOCs from the past four years. And the data show that even as the MOOC hype has started to die down, interest hasn’t tapered off...
What is openness? In what ways we can ensure quality of Open Educational Resources (OERs) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)? Are there any examples of good quality Open Educational Practices (OEPs)? Is it possible to be adopted a model for democratization of the contents hosted in MOOCs? Are there any common EU policies or strategies regarding OERs, MOOCs' quality, design or pedagogy?
... what is the impact of this new educational reality on teaching and learning a Foreign Language and how could language teachers provide an efficient support to language learners combining collaborative and personalized learning? Is there any MOOC platform that is based on an adequate educational model for successful language learning and teaching? ...
MOOCs are now no different from products which we buy online, when it comes to the choices offered. Similar to online products, there are now numerous courses from institutions across the globe. In fact, since most MOOCs are free, there is now a confusion in the minds of the learners. For instance, a potential learner may have these queries in mind: ...
"Perdu dans la jungle des MOOCs ? Avec ses outils de recherche, ses mécanismes de vote et l’aide de sa communauté, l'application mOOki vous permet de trouver LE MOOC qui répond à vos attentes!"
I’d argue, however, that the true innovations of MOOCs are not those found insidethe open online courses.
The most important innovations catalyzed by MOOCs have very little to do with technology, or even pedagogy. Rather, they are innovations at the level ofinstitutional organizational and cultural change.
Fini le temps des MOOCs passifs où l’apprenant se contentait de suivre un enseignement vidéo puis de répondre à quelques quizz avant d’obtenir un certificat. Après l’échec de ce modèle, les MOOCs se sont largement « socialisés ». Objectif : maintenir la motivation des participants.
... In a recently released white paper, “Everywhere and Anytime, Here and Now: Digital and Residential Education at Harvard,” Provost Alan M. Garber reflects upon the rise of MOOCs — “heralded as a disruptive change, garnering praise and provoking anxiety” — and discusses how the University is pursuing its learning and research mission in their wake...
... le MOOC est un projet fédérateur et un outil exceptionnel pour promouvoir, mettre en valeur et soutenir la culture, pour donner accès, à un très grand nombre de personnes, gratuitement, au plaisir de la culture, sans pour autant sacrifier à la qualité du contenu, qui se doit d’être rigoureux au niveau scientifique. Les gens sont friands de culture, dit-elle, ils veulent apprendre dans le plaisir et c’est possible grâce au MOOC...
Pour son deuxième anniversaire, la plateforme française de Mooc FUN (France université numérique) prend son autonomie et se dote d'une nouvelle structure juridique pilotée par les établissements eux-mêmes. Catherine Mongenet, directrice du groupement d'intérêt public, détaille les enjeux de cette nouvelle gouvernance.
Despite low completion rates, student isolation and imbalanced demographics, leaders in the field of online learning feel confident that the availability of user data will lead to significant improvements in the future of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).Stanford’s Andreas Paepcke, professor of computer science, works with user-generated data gathered from Stanford’s MOOCs...
Proposal for a new research study to investigate whether online MOOC forums are places where people form their own silos or come together across differences.
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