The first MOOCs have produced abundant data about students and learning behaviors, and perhaps even more press coverage about what it all means for the future of education. Take the oft-discussed low completion…
Continue readingMaybe I should retire; what can top this? My MIT class was the answer to @Jeopardy ? last night. (h/t @Henry_Jenkins) pic.twitter.com/ZQQGU34vFP — Sam Ford (@Sam_Ford) July 10, 2014 We…
Continue readingProfessor Shigueru Miyagawa is one of OCW’s most prolific participants, and a long-standing member and recent chair of the OCW Faculty Advisory Committee. As he’s told us: “To be able…
Continue readingLast week, MIT News published a Q&A with MIT economics professor David Autor about inequality among the “99 percent.” This week, the conversation continues with discussion about the cost, and…
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 readingSlate recently wrote about Battushig Myanganbayar, who at 15 aced 6.002x, the first MOOC from MIT based on the sophomore level engineering course. As Slate puts it: Designers of the…
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 readingSpace Ripples Reveal Big Bang’s Smoking Gun By DENNIS OVERBYE MARCH 17, 2014 CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — One night late in 1979, an itinerant young physicist named Alan Guth, with a…
Continue readingHarvard and MIT make a compelling case for MOOCs By Derrick Harris Harvard and MIT have released the draft of a working paper that makes a strong case for the…
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…
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