The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Wikipedia defines MOOC as "an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user fora that help build a community for students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs)."

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

But in recent years a new type of online degree has emerged, born of partnerships between elite universities and the platforms that support MOOCs, such as Coursera, FutureLearn, and edX. Since then, more and more degrees have run through MOOC channels. This has essentially created a new round of hype about MOOCs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

At a recent meeting of educational technology policy advisors, a well-informed university CIO casually declared that MOOCs were history. Increasingly, MOOCs are being packaged into series of courses with a non-degree credential being offered to those who successfully complete the series.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

The nonprofit MOOC platform edX, originally started by MIT and Harvard University at a time when pundits predicted large-scale online courses could replace college for some people, is trying yet another new approach, launching the first of what it calls a “MicroBachelors” program.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2020

That’s because it might make the idea of adopting MOOC content acceptable to professors “skeptical about the integrity of online education,” he adds. But if you get to the global audience, it would be.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A lot has changed since 2012 or, the year the New York Times dubbed the "Year of the MOOC." Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee. And popular providers like Coursera and edX are increasingly partnering with colleges and universities to offer MOOC-based degrees online. But the big change in 2018 was MOOC-based degrees.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

To understand the concept, it’s important to remember how much MOOCs have changed since they emerged about six years ago to great fanfare. He imagines that some professors may assign parts of MOOCs as homework, or as a way to help students get up to speed on technical courses. It allows you to level up in preparation for a course.

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

MOOCs: high aspirations and higher disappointments. The above idea is a noble one and massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs , are thought to be the solution to worldwide access to higher education. The online connectivity may not be a really important problem, but MOOCs faced a wall of other, more important issues.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

One sign of that: There’s a 22-story tower in the country’s capital officially named the “MOOC Times Building” that houses a government-supported incubator for edtech companies. But MOOCs were trending upward back in 2014 when the education incubator was established, so it made a catchy name for the building.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

News that Arizona State University and edX have archived 10 of their 14 Global Freshman Academy courses raises questions about the viability and purpose of credit-eligible MOOCs. She suggests that first-year students may need more academic and social supports and wraparound services than a la carte MOOCs provide. And yet, only 0.47

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2017

The media started calling this space MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses, a term coopted from a 2008 experiment. The narrative in early days of MOOC space was around disruption of universities. Not all MOOC providers shared this narrative, but this was the one that the media stuck with it.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

Less than a week after its announced lead in Coursera’s $103 million Series E round , SEEK is at it again with £50 million (about $65 million) in London-based MOOC platform FutureLearn. This funding is “vindication for Open University betting on a MOOC platform, for investing in a non-U.S. audiences).

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Neo LMS

APRIL 14, 2016

MOOCs: high aspirations and higher disappointments. The above idea is a noble one and massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs , are thought to be the solution to worldwide access to higher education. The online connectivity may not be a really important problem, but MOOCs faced a wall of other, more important issues.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

MOOCs have gone from a buzzword to a punchline, especially among professors who were skeptical of these “massive open online courses” in the first place. MOOCs started in around 2011 when a few Stanford professors put their courses online and made them available to anyone who wanted to take them. And that's what MOOCS have.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Udacity helped popularize the idea of offering college-level courses online to anyone for free, a format known as MOOCs (for Massive Open Online Courses). But this week a Udacity official called MOOCs “dead,” leading to questions about what that means for one of the company’s offerings (which still include free MOOCs).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does). But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2017

And she makes the case for why free online courses like hers—which are known as Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs—might still lead to a revolution in higher education, even though the hype around them has died down. Some people might even wonder whether MOOCs are even still around since you don’t hear much about these courses today.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2017

I took one of the very first MOOCs, and back then the videos, assignments, and certificates were all free. As MOOC providers focussed on finding a business model, they started putting certain aspects of the experience behind a paywall, hoping to get more people to pay. The fact that MOOCs were free sparked widespread interest in them.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

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 Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning? How many MOOCs have you signed up for and how many have you taken?”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2016

The modern massive open online course movement, which began when the first “MOOCs” were offered by Stanford professors in late 2011, is now half a decade old. In that time, MOOC providers have raised over $400 million and now employ more than a thousand staff. Class Central. million Udacity - 4 million. And it seems to be working.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

The MOOC landscape has grown to include 9,400 courses, more than 500 MOOC-based credentials, and more than a dozen graduate degrees. The total number of MOOCs available to register for at any point of time is larger than ever, thanks to tweaks in the scheduling policy by MOOC providers. edX: 14 million users. XuetangX: 9.3

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

You could call extension schools the original MOOCs. Well, unless you count the students in MOOCs, those free online courses, which are offered through a different division of the university. Yet during that same period, another part of the university, HarvardX, has been running MOOCs, massive open online courses.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Colleges have tried to offer courses built around MOOC materials before—and it hasn’t always gone well. “If they want to go public, they want to have revenue streams and scalable [markets],” he adds. It’s important to build that story to try to go public. They need to show a story of growth.” Will Colleges Buy It?

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2023

The founding came at the height of public excitement around free online courses known as MOOCs, which stands for Massive Open Online Courses. In fact, a New York Times piece declared 2012 “ the year of the MOOC.” An Unusual Backstory When MIT and Harvard each invested $30 million to start edX back in 2012, it was surprising news.

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Mobile Musings

MARCH 18, 2013

ISTE’s Learning and Leading with Technology (L&L) just published an article I wrote about MOOCs. In particular, there are two new MOOCs that are particularly well suited to K-12 professional learning. Best of all, these two MOOCs are both OPEN (in a variety of senses, including open licensed) and CONNECTIVIST.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

MOOC-provider Coursera, for example, claims to have 6.5 Across all geographies, Europe has one of the highest concentration of MOOC users in the world. For their part, some MOOC providers have already made steps towards compliance. Some MOOC instructors are less concerned. million in Europe.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

MAY 2, 2017

This is basically a collection of 700 MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) offered for free by some of the leading universities all.read more. May 2, 2017 Here is another important resource from Open Culture.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. The problem, he argues, is that providers of MOOCs, including Coursera and edX, require registration to get to the materials. Downes has a special relationship to MOOCs. Their course inspired both the term “MOOCs” and a whole new industry.

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 27, 2014

Image Source Used Under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND License Week 4 of the Foundations of Virtual Instruction MOOC I started on June 30th is wrapping up today. By this time next week, I will hopefully have successfully completed my first MOOC. I was especially interested/distressed to find out that even in MOOCs, people try to cheat !

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Some guy named Rae...

OCTOBER 9, 2013

MOOCs, MOOCs, MOOCs! said in the cadence of “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia“…) I am *so* tired of hearing about MOOCs these days. There are cMOOCs and xMOOCs and blended MOOCs, oh my. Teaching & Learning academic tech innovation MOOCs'

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Some guy named Rae...

OCTOBER 9, 2013

MOOCs, MOOCs, MOOCs! said in the cadence of “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia“…) I am *so* tired of hearing about MOOCs these days. There are cMOOCs and xMOOCs and blended MOOCs, oh my.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In this video, Constance Seibert shares how the Learning Differences MOOC-Ed hosted by the Friday Institute helped her better understand the different ways her students learn. The Learning Differences MOOC-Ed strives to model some of the approaches teachers can use with their students. The course starts on October 2!

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Neo LMS

APRIL 20, 2021

Once technology became part of our daily routine and online learning solutions (MOOC providers, learning apps, learning management systems , etc.) On the other hand, Harvard was the one that created one of the first MOOC programs to allow anyone in the world to have a Harvard experience. The topic is not new.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Until lately, those online MIT courses have somewhat resembled so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs, says Clara Piloto, director of global programs at MIT Professional Education. Now, as MOOCs have evolved to court professional audiences , so too have MIT’s efforts to harness companies and organizations.

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Mark Smithers

MARCH 12, 2013

This morning Richard Grusin posted a series of twenty tweets presenting a highly critical and thought provoking view of MOOCs. MOOCs are the bastard children of 1980s cyber-utopianism and post-1945 economic neoliberalism. MOOCs are a 21st century manifestation of cyberspace’s revolutionary ideology of information freedom.

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 3, 2014

Image Used With Permission Under a Creative Commons License Late last week I was innocently checking my Twitter feed, and I saw an announcement for a MOOC called Foundations of Virtual Instruction. Based on my experience thus far, I think Summer 2014 might see me complete my first MOOC. Have you had any experiences with MOOCs?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

Dhawal Shah, co-founder of Class Central, a directory of MOOCs, says that “enrollment numbers have dropped drastically in the recent times” for individual courses. He promises that it covers “backpropagation, convolutional networks, recurrent networks, and more.”. Coursera may be looking for a blockbuster these days.

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