Thank you to our colleagues at Columbia University for hosting the 2nd Learning With MOOCs gathering. The hospitality, warmth, and personal attention of our Columbia hosts set a new standard for ...
MOOCs and adaptive-learning software are often billed as two of the most potentially game-changing technologies in higher education. The White House, for one, is excited to see what might happen if ...
Are you part a MOOC at your school? Have you taught, developed, TA’d, facilitated, designed, filmed, edited, assessed or communicated about an open online course at your college or university? The ...
Despite their passion for teaching and commitment to the field, educators around the world – with varying years of experience, teaching different subjects, at different levels, in a variety of ...
Do you remember when there was a debate about online courses? Wasn’t it just a few years ago? How has the world of higher education changed this quickly? We have not perceived competitive agility and ...
Has the MOOC revolution come and gone? Or will the principles of the MOOC movement continue to influence higher ed? On Tuesday, April 10 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How ...
Gregor Kennedy receives funding from the Australian Research Council and the Office of Learning and Teaching. Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, took the world by storm in 2012. After years of ...
What a difference a year makes. When we launched openSAP just over a year ago, it was one of the first big corporate-run massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Now, everyone from Aquent to Yahoo is ...
MOOC is an acronym for Massive Open Online Course. The term was first used to describe a course on Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (CCK08) taught by George Siemens and Stephen Downes. The ...
When Ohio State University math professor Jim Fowler and his colleague Thomas Evans, a senior instructional designer at the school, decided to create a calculus MOOC, they envisioned a course with an ...
Before Intel giant McAfee revamped its new-hire orientation, it was over 80 hours long and consisted of roughly 40 hours of pre-work, 5 days of on-site training, and a “robust” syllabus of post-work, ...
University of Western Australia provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation AU. In Daphne Koller’s TED talk about Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), she discusses what she believes ...