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Ryan Rejaei

Still little consensus on role of massive, online courses in higher education | The Run... - 0 views

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      Online Courses are reshaping the college classroom. It is only a matter of time that it is available to everyone. 
  • Massive, open, online courses could be reshaping the typical college classroom.
  • The classes, known as MOOCs, were once hailed as the next big disruption to traditional higher education, opening the door to a college education to anyone, anywhere in the world.
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  • have educators rethinking how the new format for college coursework can best be put to use
Ryan Rejaei

Free exchange: Massive open online forces | The Economist - 0 views

  • UNIVERSITIES have not changed much since students first gathered in Oxford and Bologna in the 11th century
  • Teaching has been constrained by technology.
  • Innovation is eliminating those constraints, however, and bringing sweeping change to higher education.
Ryan Rejaei

Moocs are free - but for how much longer? | News | Times Higher Education - 0 views

    • Ryan Rejaei
       
      Free online education is the future. 
  • Two of the best-known US Mooc platforms, Coursera and Udacity, were formed by Stanford professors, and the university’s location in the heart of Silicon Valley places it in close proximity to many of the world’s leading tech companies.
  • with the massive open online course movement
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  • John Mitchell
  • which has delivered more than 240 online and blended campus courses to about 2 million people since 2011 – more than 50 of them for free.
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