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.
Ask a Tech Teacher
MARCH 18, 2020
Gone are the days when teachers had to drag TVs into classrooms to let students watch films. Now, nearly every classroom is at least equipped with a screen and projector. After all, these technologies bring the one thing every classroom needs: immersive learning. Video-assisted Learning. AR & VR. Virtual Classes.
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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.
EdTech4Beginners
MARCH 7, 2018
Let’s take a look at the some of the innovation in E-learning industry in the last 10 years: The Usage of Smartphones. However, it has taken the e-learning industry by storm. This is the level of vitality of smartphones which makes it necessary for the e-learning industry to introduce mLearning, i.e., mobile learning on a large scale.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
But there’s a challenge in getting those findings to folks at the front of the classroom. His theory is that] industries will be challenged by newcomers who will come in with a cheaper, more efficient product—maybe a product that’s not quite as good, but will in some way challenge the status quo.
Edsurge
APRIL 13, 2022
A year earlier, Stanford University computer scientist Sebastien Thrun, co-founder of commercial MOOC provider Udacity, outdid Christiansen, predicting an even bleaker future for face-to-face classes, claiming that in 50 years streaming lectures will so subvert conventional higher ed that only 10 U.S. colleges will remain standing.
Edsurge
JUNE 14, 2022
That puts Meta in a different space than companies that offer massive open online courses, or MOOCs—which tend to focus more on upskilling and that offer certificates intended for professional advancement, experts say. Either way, Meta’s possible entrance into the market plays into a long-standing fear of big tech in the edtech industry.
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