Edsurge
MARCH 20, 2019
It’s common these days to hear that free online mega-courses, called MOOCs, failed to deliver on their promise of educating the masses. Now, one of the first professors to try out MOOCs says he has a way to reuse bits and pieces of the courses created during that craze in a way that might deliver on the initial promise.
Edsurge
AUGUST 17, 2016
“But adaptive-learning technologies are bullsh*t, c’mon,” one of us would say. I see your perspective, but think about it this way,” another might respond, “Your dystopian visions of tech mean less when you think about the millions of students who aren’t learning now. You can’t mix AltSchool and Freire.”. “I She’s a poet.
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Edsurge
MARCH 24, 2017
Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Try building a MOOC to meet that challenge—I’d love to read about it! Sunny Lee: Part of our job at EdSurge is to report on, speak at, strike conversations and make connections at edtech conferences throughout the year. The interview, “ Why U.
Gaggle Speaks
MARCH 25, 2015
Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0; The list goes on and on.
Gaggle Speaks
MARCH 25, 2015
Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0; The list goes on and on.
Hack Education
DECEMBER 30, 2019
Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Uber for Education". “We
Bryan Alexander
DECEMBER 29, 2015
Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. The hype bubble burst in America, but other countries seem to be interested.
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