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Cole Shaw

A First for Udacity: Transfer Credit at a U.S. University for One of Its Courses - Tech... - 0 views

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  • Cole Shaw on 11 Sep 12
     
    Someone else over the weekend posted about the U of Wisconsin accepting edX courses as transfer credit--found this other article that a university in Colorado is also going to accept Udacity credit!
Arthur Josephson

Coursera Hits 1 Million Students, With Udacity Close Behind - Wired Campus - The Chroni... - 1 views

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  • Arthur Josephson on 25 Sep 12
     
    Updates stats on the largest "Massive Open Online Courses: or MOOC's. Coursera leading Udacity....
Junjie Liu

Class Central - 0 views

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  • Junjie Liu on 14 Oct 12
     
    A complete list of free online courses offered by Stanford, Coursera, MIT and Harvard led edX (MITx + Harvardx + BerkeleyX), and Udacity
Junjie Liu

Unishared: Revolution in Online Education Beyond Coursera, Edx, and Udacity - 1 views

www.forbes.com/...eyond-coursera-edx-and-udacity

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  • Junjie Liu on 14 Oct 12
     
    The author believe startups led by young students themselves rather than old brick-and-mortar colleges and universities that will be responsible for changing the way students learn.
Jason Dillon

Napster, Udacity, and the Academy - 4 views

www.shirky.com/...apster-udacity-and-the-academy

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  • Jason Dillon on 14 Nov 12
     
    If you don't know Clay Shirky, you can find TED talks and books about technology and/or web 2.0. I recommend Cognitive Surplus if you want more.
  • Jason Dillon on 14 Nov 12
     
    "In the US, an undergraduate education used to be an option, one way to get into the middle class. Now it's a hostage situation, required to avoid falling out of it. And if some of the hostages having trouble coming up with the ransom conclude that our current system is a completely terrible idea, then learning will come unbundled from the pursuit of a degree just as as songs came unbundled from CDs."
Sunanda V

adVancEducation: When is a MOOC not a MOOC? - 0 views

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  • Sunanda V on 25 Nov 12
     
    Provides an interesting classification system for MOOCs, of which edX, Coursera, and Udacity fall into one category--content-based. The other two MOOC categories are network-based and task-based. Interesting argument...
Laura Johnson

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  • Laura Johnson on 05 Dec 12
     
    Knollop is your portal to discover, review and follow thousands of online learning materials in any subject from Coursera, Edx, Udacity, Udemy, and top universities.
Jeffrey Siegel

College Is Dead. Long Live College! - 2 views

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 19 Oct 12
     
    A good description of Udacity & Coursera. Says MOOCs work well for students who are self-motivated and already fairly well educated. Yet, worldwide, the poorest students still don't have the background (or the Internet bandwidth) to participate in a major way. It suggests that very selective colleges will continue to thrive, but those in the middle will need to work harder to justify their costs.
Jeffrey Siegel

Udacity and Khan Academy ed-tech CEOs call for disruption in higher-ed - 2 views

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  • Jeffrey Siegel on 11 Sep 12
     
    "We need high-quality education for the fraction of the cost and to give anyone a chance to learn throughout their lifetime."
Mirza Ramic

After Setbacks, Online Courses Are Rethought - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • Mirza Ramic on 11 Dec 13
     
    ""I care about education for everyone, not just the elite," he [Sebastian Thrun of Udacity] said in an interview. "We want to bring high-quality education to everyone, and set up everyone for success. My commitment is unchanged."" Let's hope so...
Emily Watson

Providers of Free MOOC's Now Charge Employers for Access to Student Data - Technology -... - 2 views

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  • Cole Shaw on 05 Dec 12
     
    Wow, pretty interesting that Coursera is getting into this game. I always thought that was a strong suit of Udacity and one possible way for them to get sustainable revenue.
Arthur Josephson

University of Wisconsin to Offer Credit for "competency-based assessments" rather than ... - 2 views

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  • Arthur Josephson on 31 Jan 13
     
    Wisconsin officials tout the UW Flexible Option as the first to offer multiple, competency-based bachelor's degrees from a public university system. Officials encourage students to complete their education independently through online courses, which have grown in popularity through efforts by companies such as Coursera, edX and Udacity. No classroom time is required under the Wisconsin program except for clinical or practicum work for certain degrees.
Mohit Patel

Will Google Course Builder Challenge Blackboard Dominance? - Online Colleges - 2 views

www.onlinecolleges.net/...challenge-blackboard-dominance

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  • Chip Linehan on 19 Oct 12
     
    Thank you for posting - this is fascinating. This is not only a threat to Blackboard, but also the MOOC companies (Coursera, Udacity, etc.). If the tool continues to be developed in terms of functionality and ease of use, AND third party developers build out applications that plug into this platform, then colleges and universities will start to build their own online courses, and not farm out their content to the Coursera's of the world... This reminds of the dot com era (circa 2000) when companies large and small hired "web development" firms to create websites for them. Now companies largely do this themselves...
  • Matthew Ong on 22 Oct 12
     
    Thanks for sharing Mohit. It's great that it's open source and allows teachers all over the world to build their own courses. I wonder what this would do to the larger online course companies...
Harley Chang

The King of MOOCs Abdicates the Throne - 3 views

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  • Harley Chang on 21 Nov 13
     
    Sebastian Thrun, CEO of Udacity, has openly admitted that his company's MOOC courses are a lousy replacement for actual university class and instead will be taking his company to focus more on corporate training. I personally will reserve further judgement until after I finish the readings for next week.
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  • Grif Peterson on 21 Nov 13
     
    I posted this article in G+ a day or two ago. Some of the better commentary surrounding this article below. Tressie McMillan Cottom: "Thrun says it wasn't a failure. It was a lesson. But for the students who invested time and tuition in an experiment foisted on them by the of stewards public highered trusts, failure is a lesson they didn't need." Rebecca Schuman: "Thrun blames neither the corporatization of the university nor the MOOC's use of unqualified "student mentors" in assessment. Instead, he blames the students themselves for being so poor." Stephen Downes: "I think that what amuses me most about the reaction to the Thrun story is the glowing descriptions of him have only intensified. "The King of MOOCs." "The Genius Godfather of MOOCs." Really now. As I and the many other people working toward the same end have pointed out repeatedly, the signal change in MOOCs is openess, not whatever it was (hubris? VC money?) that Thrun brought to the table. Rebecca Schuman claims this is a victory for "the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar." It's not that, no more than the Titanic disaster was a victory for wind-powered passenger transportation."
  • Molly Wasser on 29 Nov 13
     
    Grif - where did the Stephen Downes quote come from ? I read the Rebecca Schuman article and don't really agree with her. To expand on the Schuman quote you posted - it's really interesting how she says the massive lecture format doesn't work but then provides two examples of massive technology that do work - texting and World of Warcraft. This relates directly to some of what we talked about earlier this semester. I don't think it's the 'massive,' as Schuman implies, that causes the failure of a MOOC. It's part of the design. Once the design is better and more engaging, then MOOCs may find that they have higher retention rates. Schuman: Successful education needs personal interaction and accountability, period. This is, in fact, the same reason students feel annoyed, alienated, and anonymous in large lecture halls and thus justified in sexting and playing World of Warcraft during class-and why the answer is not the MOOC, but the tiny, for-credit, in-person seminar that has neither a sexy acronym nor a potential for huge corporate partnerships.
  • Grif Peterson on 09 Dec 13
     
    The Downes quote was from OLDaily, which is a daily listserve of his that I subscribe too. I think the difference between texting/WoW and MOOCs is that, while both have many many users, the former two have means in which those groups are disaggregated into smaller units that are largely responsible for the UX/individual growth that goes on. I agree with you that massive is not necessarily the failure, in fact, I think it's the best thing they have going for them. However, until the design can leverage meaningful collaboration, like WoW and texting, the massive will remain a burden.
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