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Peter Mellow
September 18, 2024 12:22 AM
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Online courses are an excellent way to take your interest to the next level or explore a new field. Best of all, many courses are free and offered by the world’s top universities and companies. With summer in full swing, high school students can help fill the long, hot summer days with learning.
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Peter Mellow
August 18, 2024 6:33 PM
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Online platforms which once promised to make learning from universities such as Harvard and Stanford available to the masses are turning education into a product which can be traded, bought, or sold according to a new book challenging the ethics of these sites.
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Peter Mellow
May 7, 2024 5:39 AM
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In a recently announced transaction, 2U will acquire all edX assets, including the brand, about 3,500 digital courses, and the website — with its 50 million learners. This development should serve as a wakeup call for other colleges and universities, which must start thinking about how to unbundle the value chain and outsource areas where others possess superior core competencies By partnering and controlling significant parts of value chain instead of resisting them, universities can gain a significant portion of revenues that would steadily migrate toward EdTech companies. Those additional revenues can provide seed capital to universities to drive their own EdTech initiatives. Right now, they’re mere spectators in the game.
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Peter Mellow
January 15, 2024 3:58 PM
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Moocs required us to rethink how to create open and free courses that would engage large numbers of learners. Over the years, we’ve adapted our services in response to lessons we’ve learnt from our experiments, write Nikki Stuart and Lauren Johnston-Smith
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Peter Mellow
October 5, 2023 5:48 PM
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Curtin University’s outstanding Autism and Mental Health course has won the prestigious 2023 edX Prize for Exceptional Contributions in Online Teaching and
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Peter Mellow
August 4, 2023 9:47 PM
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Towards the end of 2022 I wrote a post about the turbulence being experienced by online education companies that partner with universities. This was on the back of a raft of negative company announcements about their performance and financial health. There’s been a number of changes since then an
Jeff Maggioncalda, the CEO of Coursera, can’t hide his excitement about AI. He has ChatGPT on his phone and his iPad, and our 45-minute conversation i
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Peter Mellow
April 10, 2023 6:45 PM
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Comprehensive list of online course platforms worldwide, offering hundreds of thousands of courses.
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Peter Mellow
March 7, 2023 12:58 PM
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FutureLearn’s subscription plan is now comparable in price to Coursera’s, but it doesn’t offer nearly as much.
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Peter Mellow
February 5, 2023 2:57 AM
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Curtin University is Western Australia's largest and most culturally diverse university, with over 50,000 students from over 130 countries. As a world-class, internationally focused institution, Curtin’s mission is to change minds, lives and the world through leadership, innovation and excellence in teaching and research.
Curtin is ranked amongst the world’s best. In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2020, Curtin asserted its position amongst the top one per cent of universities worldwide, thanks to its growing reputation as a research-intensive university. Curtin also ranked 20th globally for universities under the age of 50 in the QS World University Rankings 2019 and received a five-star overall excellence rating in the QS Stars rating.
Curtin is committed to improving the digital learning experience for all students by creating engaging, interactive MOOCs and MicroMasters programs on highly desired topics. Curtin University offers credit for a number of MicroMasters programs. Students may apply to Curtin and if accepted, can pursue an accelerated and less expensive Master’s Degree.
The class focuses on things teens can do to feel happier — making social connections, maintaining a sense of free time and being more "other" oriented.
Explore an innovative approach to teaching and learning using educational technologies to improve online learning opportunities with this online course from the University of Southern Queensland.
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Peter Mellow
July 31, 2022 3:38 PM
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EdX has launched two Spark Augmented Reality courses from Meta, developed as part of the online learning platform's partnership with Meta Immersive Learning. The goal: to "build a learning ecosystem for the metaverse and give professionals broader access to the tools and education needed to build a career in augmented reality."
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Peter Mellow
September 18, 2024 12:21 AM
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From calculus to guitar for beginners, these courses are great options for high school students everywhere. Start learning today!
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Peter Mellow
May 16, 2024 10:13 PM
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This book critically examines the role of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in higher education, against the backdrop of rapid developments.
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Peter Mellow
April 23, 2024 7:51 PM
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A massive open online course (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to any person who wants to take a course, with no limit on atten
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Peter Mellow
January 9, 2024 6:47 PM
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CT asks Anant Agarwal about lifelong learning and how edX connects individuals to education whatever their career or life stage.
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Peter Mellow
September 13, 2023 7:46 PM
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Two online learning experts share lessons gained during a decade of developing and refining massive open online courses (Moocs)
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Peter Mellow
June 16, 2023 7:06 PM
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Massive open online courses are the educational happening of the moment. Everyone wants in. No one is quite sure what they’re getting into.
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Peter Mellow
April 25, 2023 5:53 PM
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Bite-sized courses give learners a free taste of online learning in career-relevant topics, creating new on-ramps to in-demand tech and business training programs
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Peter Mellow
March 14, 2023 3:47 AM
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Discover how Coursera makes money, its different segments, revenue growth, margins, and more.
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Peter Mellow
March 1, 2023 10:36 AM
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To get an overview of the topics and trends in the research on MOOCs, Class Central has created a list of the most cited research papers on MOOCs.
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Peter Mellow
January 31, 2023 4:46 PM
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The brothers announced their new educational initiative, Study Hall, a partnership with Arizona State University and YouTube.
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Peter Mellow
September 12, 2022 11:21 PM
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1000s of courses with free certificates and badges from universities, companies, and nonprofits worldwide.
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Peter Mellow
August 9, 2022 2:37 PM
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It’s free, self-paced and highly recommended for anyone in their first few years of university teaching.
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