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Tag Archives: MOOCs
Online college classes, once aimed at advanced students, target the masses
By Stephanie Simon
Coursera, a popular for-profit provider of massive online open courses – known as MOOCs – will host a series of basic general education classes to be developed in partnerships with 10 state university systems across the United States. “If we really want to move the needle, we can’t just stick with offering continuing education to lifelong learners,” said Daphne Koller, the Stanford computer scientist who co-founded Coursera. “We have to help people achieve degrees that will help them get a better life.” Another top MOOC provider, Udacity, is launching a similar program this summer, teaming up… Continue reading
Posted in Online Education
Tagged MOOCs
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
How a course-rich world might impact higher education: existing traditional institutions
By Larry Penley
In the first post in this series, How a course-rich world might impact higher education: I. Technology vs pedagogy, I looked at some of the characteristics of the readily-available, “off the shelf” new college level courses (NCLCs) that have created a course-rich world. In particular, I examined the potential of the NCLCs to produce disruptive innovation in higher education. In the second, How a course-rich world might impact higher education: II. Creating new institutions, I discussed using this new course-rich resource to create new institutions using… Continue reading
MOOCs Are No Education Panacea, but Here’s What Can Make Them Work
Wayne Smutz
Executive Director of the World Campus and
Associate Vice President for Outreach
Penn State University
Everyone’s talking about massive open online courses, or MOOCs. The popular wisdom is that they will revolutionize higher education, and possibly even put traditional colleges and universities out of business. But MOOCs aren’t likely to solve the fundamental student learning challenges that colleges and universities face, and they certainly won’t take the place of a college education.
With the potential to host tens of thousands of students in a single course, MOOCs make lots of content available to lots… Continue reading
Posted in Online Education
Tagged higher education, higher education challenge, MOOCs, unemployment rate, Wayne Smutz
Certification – Indications of Market Readiness in U.S. Higher Education
By Larry Penley
There is growing evidence of ever more rapid change in how we learn and in the choices we are making about higher education. Those changes are making it more likely that a certification process will spread to non-technical areas. It is now more likely that certification will begin to replace traditional higher education with its graduation and diplomas; instead, a system of testing for what has been learned along with certifying that learning is becoming more likely – and sooner.
Higher education in the US has remained committed to a form of education that is… Continue reading
Posted in Future of Higher Education
Tagged certification process, higher education, Larry Penley, MOOCs
