What Two Years of MOOCs Can Tell Us
By Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Researchers at Harvard and MIT have just published a study of user behavior in 68 MOOCs offered by HarvardX and MITx on the edX…
Continue readingBy Joe Pickett, OCW Publication Director Researchers at Harvard and MIT have just published a study of user behavior in 68 MOOCs offered by HarvardX and MITx on the edX…
Continue readingIt’s common knowledge that many MOOC students drop out partway through their course. But some of these learners might consider their “incomplete” to be a complete success. A new study of completion rates among HarvardX MOOCs suggests that student…
Continue readingFor the first time, MITx has partnered with HarvardX to deliver a MOOC on the edX platform. The course is VJx Visualizing Japan (1850s–1930s): Westernization, Protest, Modernity. It starts on…
Continue readingThe Data and Interactives Team at The Chronicle of Higher Education have combed through the HarvardX and MITx data and created eight dynamic charts that explore the gender, geography, education…
Continue readingRecently, MITx and HarvardX released de-identified learning data collected by edX. This article in the Boston Globe digs into the demographics of MOOC learners: Of the 842,000 students who registered…
Continue readingHave you ever wondered how a MOOC becomes a MOOC? Take a peak behind the scenes at the production of HarvardX courses with this article from The Boston Globe: Harvard…
Continue readingImagine a MOOC learner: Who is she? How old is she? Where does she live? Anant Agarwal, the CEO of edX, recently wrote a blog post on HuffPost Education that…
Continue readingHere’s a great podcast interview from earlier in the year with Justin Reich, the Richard L. Menschel HarvardX Research Fellow at Harvard. A great view into our developing understanding of…
Continue readingMOOCs have gone from a distant idea to a global phenomenon in less than five years. During this period MOOCs have innovated at a dazzling speed in content creation, delivery,…
Continue readingHarvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have released a set of open-source visualization tools for working with a rich trove of data from more than a million people…
Continue readingCompletion Rates Aren’t the Best Way to Judge MOOCs, Researchers Say January 22, 2014 by Jennifer Howard When it comes to measuring the success of an education program, the bottom…
Continue readingMIT and Harvard release working papers on open online courses Research findings challenge common misconceptions, offer surprising insights about how students engage with MOOCs. January 21, 2014 MIT and Harvard…
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