With the opportunity offered to all to take courses from prestigious universities for free or at a lower cost, universalization of quality education, less restrictive training, and much more, we have ...
Eight short years ago, the world's first massive open online course (MOOC) was offered by the University of Prince Edward Island (Canada). The course, called "Connectivism and Connective Knowledge," ...
Online degrees are nothing new. Since the late 1990’s, a steady stream of online degree programs have entered the market, including many reputable options from top-tier schools. But in recent years a ...
Has the MOOC revolution come and gone? Or will the principles of the MOOC movement continue to influence higher ed? On Tuesday, April 10 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How ...
Although it has given rise to jokes about cows and an outfielder for the 1986 New York Mets, MOOC is actually an acronym for Massive Open Online Courses. Depending on whom you ask, they point the way ...
It was big news last fall when Colorado State University-Global Campus became the first college in the United States to grant credit to students who passed a MOOC, or massive open online course. For ...
Missing in the fiery debate over whether Massive Open Online Courses are as good or far worse than traditional residential classes is a heretical discovery I made last year: that in some cases MOOCs ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about education, edtech and higher education. MOOCs, the massive open, online courses that were supposed to revolutionize ...
In a previous post we predicted that this year MOOCs will morph into MOCCS (Mid-Sized Online Closed Courses). We believe that universities and companies will begin to create and license online courses ...