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Tag Archives: edX
LAPTOP U. Has the future of college moved online?
By Nathan Heller
Education is a curiously alchemic process. Its vicissitudes are hard to isolate. Why do some students retain what they learned in a course for years, while others lose it through the other ear over their summer breaks? Is the fact that Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard to revolutionize the tech industry a sign that their Harvard educations worked, or that they failed? The answer matters, because the mechanism by which conveyed knowledge blooms into an education is the standard by which moocs will either enrich teaching in this country or deplete it.… Continue reading
Posted in Online Education
Tagged coursera, Drew Gilpin Faust, edX, Gregory Nagy, Harvard University, Michael J. Sandel, MIT, MOOCs, Nathan Heller, San José State University, U.C. Berkeley, udacity
Offline education the domain of priveledged few? 6 predictions on the future of higher education.
By Parneet Gosal
The top social media colleges according to Student Advisor
Having just finished my very first online lecture on the history of the internet, I am both heartened and dismayed by the experience. Heartened that 34,077 students can enroll in a class taught by a single professor, but dismayed that education (online or otherwise) continues to push learning-by-rote and a lecture based knowledge-transmission model. One thing remains clear – this is only the beginning of the disruption of higher education as we know it.
Read more: seedwalker.com
Parneet Gosal is a… Continue reading
Blog post by Lloyd Armstrong: edX: a step forward – or backward?
By Lloyd Armstrong
edX, the new distance learning collaboration recently announced by MIT and Harvard, has gotten a lot of attention, and rightly so:
Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) today announced edX, a transformational new partnership in online education. Through edX, the two institutions will collaborate to enhance campus-based teaching and learning and build a global community of online learners.
Continue reading: changinghighereducation.com
