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Live Online Video Classes Are ‘The New Face-to-Face.’ So How Many Students Can They Handle at a Time?

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Live Classes at Scale MOOCs sparked widespread attention several years ago largely because of excitement over the idea of one professor being able to teach massive numbers of students from across the world at once. Early MOOC experiments had more than 100,000 students per course.

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?HigherEd Year in Review: What We’ve Learned (and Loved) in Our First 365 Days

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Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Try building a MOOC to meet that challenge—I’d love to read about it! But Jeff Young's piece about MOOCs and other online courseware providers' vying to trademark the degrees of the future is surely one of my favorites. The interview, “ Why U.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

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It seems certain that more professional learning will happen outside of traditional institutions and campuses – especially if colleges fail to adapt. Learning is increasingly happening in the workplace, or “ in the flow of work.” Career-oriented lifelong learning is now even more of a societal and economic imperative.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

Hack Education

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Buy them a beer when you see them at an event and thank them for covering the LMS industry so I don’t have to. Subscribe to their blog.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. Very thorough research, gj.

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

All this makes it imperative for us to ask – in the formulation of this conference theme, certainly, but obviously well beyond this event – who is reconstituting technology-enhanced learning. What are MOOCs, for example? What are virtual learning environments? What are we promising? What else might be a fraud?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ TU Delft Students Can Earn Credit For MOOCs From Other Universities.” ” Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein on his company’s new event series, The Empirical Educator Project. Smart Sparrow has raised $7.5

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