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Udacity Official Declares MOOCs ‘Dead’ (Though the Company Still Offers Them)

Edsurge

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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A Proposal to Put the ‘M’ Back in MOOCs

Edsurge

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).

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Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

Edsurge

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. The majority of online learning environments are no more than video-hosting platforms with quizzes and a discussion forum. I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs.

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What College Professors Should Know About Learning Science

Edsurge

Sarma is familiar with large data sets and tough technical challenges—he helped develop the RFID tags that track inventories in libraries and big box stores. EdSurge: When MOOCs started a few years ago, researchers were excited to learn from the data generated from all of these online learners. Then later we started building MOOCs.]

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Technology in Schools – Future Changes in the Classroom.

EdTech4Beginners

They’ve aided the beginnings of ‘flipped’ classrooms – where students view video lectures or read background material at home and spend their class time being guided through exercises, projects, or discussions on the material. VLEs are fast becoming an irreplaceable tool for teachers and we’ve yet to see their full potential.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

Think of ways this could be used in programs both in and outside of your own schools like the YMCA, tutoring programs, community sports, and libraries. We can add videos, information, permission slips, resources, etc. By recording informational videos and posting to Google Classroom, some meetings can be replaced altogether.

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