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Watters, Audrey

Barely a week has gone by this year without some MOOC-related news. Much like last year, massive open online courses have dominated ed-tech conversations. But if 2012 was, as The New York Times decreed, the year of the ...

Match: Coursera; edX; MOOC; Udacity

Barber, Michael; Donnelly, Katelyn; Rizvi, Saad

This publication argues that the next 50 years could see a golden age for higher education, but only if all players seize the initiative and act ambitiously. If not, an avalanche of change will sweep the system ...

Match: Coursera; higher education; MOOC

Soffer, Tal; Cohen, Anat; McGreal, Rory; Conrad, Dianne

The study presented in this paper examines the feasibility of using MOOCs as a learning environment in academic courses. This paper focuses on the students who participated in two MOOCs offered by Tel Aviv University ...

Match: Coursera; higher education; MOOC

Ho, Andrew Dean; Chuang, Isaac; Reich, Justin; Coleman, Cody Austun; et al.

What happens when well-known universities offer online courses, assessments, and certificates of completion for free? Early descriptions of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have emphasized large enrollments, low ...

Match: edX; higher education; MOOC

Rogers, Guy M.

Almost four months ago my EdX/WellesleyX course, “Was Alexander Great?” was launched to test three questions about online education: whether a Massive Open Online Course could be as intellectually rigorous as a ...

Match: edX; higher education; MOOC

Bralić, Antonia; Divjak, Blażenka

It has been several years since Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) have entered the higher education environment and many forms have emerged from this new way of acquiring knowledge. Teachers have been incorporating ...

Match: Coursera; higher education; MOOC

Boga, Sandi; McGreal, Rory

From the Conclusion: In summary, MOOCs as a type of globally-networked learning environment (GNLE) could become a very useful delivery model in the developing world – but not necessarily when tied to a specific ...

Match: Coursera; MOOC

Group, MOOCs@Edinburgh

A report summarising the experience of the University of Edinburgh of offering our first 6 massive open online courses (MOOCs) in partnership with Coursera

Match: Coursera; MOOC

Smith, Becky; Eng, Min; Cheung, Simon K. S.; Fong, Joseph; et al.

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) have been radically changing the direction of online education in the last few years. Although sharing many common features, there has been an emergence of two distinct varieties of ...

Match: Coursera; MOOC

Mor, Yishay; Koskinen, Tapio

Editorial MOOCs and Beyond In-depth The Impact and Reach of MOOCs: A Developing Countries’ Perspective MOOCs and disruptive innovation: Implications for higher education The Next Game Changer: The Historical ...

Match: Coursera; MOOC