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Instructors and students discuss their experiences of the University of Edinburgh's debut courses on Coursera

Dans ce premier article, (http://www.educavox.fr/formation/debats-50/article/je-me-forme-donc-je-suis-petit), j'expliquais la délivrance de certificats en ligne « made by Coursera »…et il faut dire qu'ils font forts avec leur « Signature Track » !

Sur Coursera, environ 10% des participants inscrits à un cours vont jusqu'au bout. Le record y est détenu par le cours de programmation Functional Programming in Scala: 20% des 50.000 participants avaient obtenu la certification l'hiver dernier...

"I like to think of education as giving people superpowers." With this metaphor, Coursera co-founder Andrew Ng summed up the purpose of MOOCs, or massive open online courses, at The Atlantic's Silicon Valley Summit on Monday: They're designed to help people gain discrete skills like coding or algebra or French. Education watchers have wondered how MOOCs will affect traditional classroom experiences from the elementary school to the university, and some have even argued that online education will fundamentally change the way students of all ages learn. 

NovoEd, the fourth massive open online course (MOOC) platform to launch out of Stanford - following edX, Udacity, and Coursera - aims to make online education stickier. While most MOOC platforms attempt to recreate the lecture hall, NovoEd wants to facilitate collaborative, group-driven education for universities.

Ivy League school officials suggest that one of the biggest impacts of massive online open courses - MOOCs - could be a renewed focus on teaching over research at elite American universities. "Coursera already is affecting our campus," said Jeffrey Himpele, associate director of the McGraw Hill Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton University, which aims to improve teaching at Princeton University.