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Educators begin to think about how to deal with hate speech, threats and talk of suicide in massive open online courses.
On Tuesday, we gave you a Visualization of the Big Problem for MOOCs, which comes down to this: low completion rates. To be clear, the completion rates aren't so much a problem for you; they're more a problem for the MOOC providers and their business models. But let's not get bogged down in that.
California Seal of the Assembly Edward Headington / CC BY Today California (CA) Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (author of the CA open textbook legislation) announced that SB 520 (fact sheet) will be amended to provide open, online college courses for credit. In short, the bill will allow CA students, enrolled in CA public … Read More "California Unveils Bill to Provide Openly Licensed, Online College Courses for Credit"
I’ve been talking about open education with academics for the past year and a half. I try to put everything out there: open education resources (OER), open access scholarship, open source so…
You have been warned about my unicorn killing habit, right? Good. Let’s dive in. By the nature of the work I do on for-profit colleges, I also closely follow online education. For many years …
The University of California is spending millions to market an ambitious array of online...
It's very clear that "learning things on the Internet" is something that happens today and will play a more prominent role in the future of humanity as...
On the rise and fall of proto-MOOC Fathom.
It's time to start challenging the popular critique of higher education -- and the way the views of many academics have been belittled or ignored, writes Aaron Bady.
Open source MOOC platform.
Like Saylor, an open MOOC framework.
If believe that OER reuse could save education, and you’re looking for a reason for your institution to NOT sign up with Coursera, I guess it’s this, from their terms of use: ““Y…
Although Stanford’s recent foray into online education has been met with praise from both faculty and students alike, faculty have raised concerns surrounding intellectual property rights in this…
MOOCs are changing the relationships that are at the center of higher education, and those changes could end up affecting all colleges, writes Alison Byerly.
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