educational technology (#edtech) #elearning
From the Sloan Consortium comes the tenth annual survey titled: Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States. The higher education eLearning survey is a collaborative effort between the Babson Survey Research Group and the College Board, and purports itself to be the leading barometer of online learning in the United States. …
“Circuits and Electronics” (Course ID: 6.002x), began in March 2012, was the first MOOC developed by the edX, consortium led by MIT and Harvard. Over 155,000 students initially registered for 6.002x. The course was composed of video lectures, interactive problems, online laboratories, and a discussion forum. MOOC DATA As the course ended in June 2012,…
A great article by Todd Tauber The dirty little secret of online learning: Students are bored and dropping out discusses the recent over-hyped and under-completed massive online courses. He offers a couple reasons for their failure and concludes that future IS bright with increased funding and development! Problems Design So why are all these students falling asleep,…
Daphne Koller: What We’re Learning From Online Education Daphne Koller is the ‘birth mother’ of Coursera, and along with Stanford colleague Andrew Ng are the two behind the rise of MOOC’s and disruptive elearning in higher education. This is a FANTASTIC video which provides insight into the impetus for Coursera and an inside view of…
Hybrid Online Learning Delivers From the Bacon’s Rebellion web site (a great site you should check out!) is a blog post supporting University of Virginia’s move to join Coursera, using the latest research from Ithaka S+R: Interactive Learning Online at Public Universities: Evidence from Randomized Trials. As the University of Virginia has been embroiled in a battle over…
Future of Higher Education Becomes Unclear As Free Online Courses Multiply A quick interview by the New York Times with Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng of Stanford–makers of the COURSERA platform–are adding 12 universities to the online education venture they founded. Source How could free massive open online courses, or MOOCs, benefit or be detrimental to…