MIT’s own Lori Breslow was featured yesterday in the Higher Ed Beta blog on Inside Higher Ed: Working Across Disciplines to Improve Education February 27, 2014 – 6:07am Lori Breslow…
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 readingNew Media Consortium (NMC) and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) recently released the NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Higher Education Edition at a special session at the ELI Annual Meeting 2014….
Continue readingYou may not be aware that in addition to producing the MOOCs that get all the media attention, the MITx team is hard at work supporting dozens of experiments with…
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…
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…
Continue readingAnna Comas-Quinn, Lecturer in Spanish and Teaching Fellow in OER at the Open University, UK, recently shared via the OER forum mailing list an announcement of the publication of the…
Continue readingThe 10th annual OpenCourseWare Consortium Global Conference will be held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, on April 23-25, 2014. The OpenCourseWare Consortium and the Knowledge for All Foundation are jointly organizing the…
Continue readingAs reported today in the Chronicle of Higher Education, edX president Anant Agawal will be part of a new council convened by Carnegie Mellon University to “develop standards and promote…
Continue readingThe Commonwealth of Learning is announcing the release of “Report on the Assessment and Accreditation of Learners using OER“, a study of lessons learned in the OER university effort and…
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