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anonymous

MOOCs, Large Courses Open to All, Topple Campus Walls - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...o-all-topple-campus-walls.html

mooc online learning

shared by anonymous on 05 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • anonymous on 05 Mar 12
     
    "Welcome to the brave new world of Massive Open Online Courses - known as MOOCs - a tool for democratizing higher education. While the vast potential of free online courses has excited theoretical interest for decades, in the past few months hundreds of thousands of motivated students around the world who lack access to elite universities have been embracing them as a path toward sophisticated skills and high-paying jobs, without paying tuition or collecting a college degree. And in what some see as a threat to traditional institutions, several of these courses now come with an informal credential (though that, in most cases, will not be free). "
  • anonymous on 05 Mar 12
     
    Can you imagine 160,000 students registered in a course?
  • Kathy Schwarz on 06 Mar 12
     
    See also http://www.tonybates.ca/2012/03/06/discussion-of-moocs-more-links-and-questions/ for more info on MOOCs. This link notes the completion rates for some courses.
Jackie Doherty

Educational Leadership:What Students Need to Learn:A Diploma Worth Having - 1 views

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curriculum learning assessment credentials

shared by Jackie Doherty on 18 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Jackie Doherty on 18 Dec 13
     
    There's only one valid measure of the high school curriculum: How well does it prepare students for their adult lives?
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