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Patrice Prusko

Udacity: Creating A More Engaging MOOC - Education - Online Learning - 0 views

  • incorporate more high-profile guest speakers than you could get to come to your classroom.
Patrice Prusko

Udacity: Creating A More Engaging MOOC - Education - Online Learning - 0 views

  • interesting problems for students to solve,
  • keep students engaged, and they rarely present more than five minutes of video lecture before offering a quiz or programming exercise.
  • "It's a very different medium from sitting in a traditional lecture hall."
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  • cryptography
  • students who are challenged to define a function that will produce a given output given a specified input, and they can each come up with their own solutions, which may be substantially different. As long as they all give their function the same name, the course software can still grade their work by passing it a series pre-defined test cases.
  • computer science is learning how to use new tools
  • that taught you by doing
Patrice Prusko

Coursera nabs $43M to bring online education to emerging markets | VentureBeat - 0 views

  • he American Council on Education (ACE) has approved a handful of Coursera courses for credit. On this front, Coursera is speeding ahead of its competitors, which include Udacity and EdX.
  • Coursera in the developing world and will target specific universities. She is particularly passionate about bringing online education to young women.
  • The team will also continue to partner with more traditional publishers, which are experimenting with offering digital textbooks
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