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Duke asked MOOC students from around the world to send in videos telling us something they learned from their course. Here's what they said.
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A great 'student voice' video showing the real impact and reach of MOOCs for higher education. 
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While massive open online courses get a lot of attention, the San Francisco-based organization has received $25 million to test an ambitious blended approach to undergraduate programs.
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APRIL 30— The New York Public Library (NYPL) announced today a partnership with Coursera, one of the leading providers of free online education, to support their curriculum of online courses through their Learning Hubs program. Several branches will provide users with weekly in-person class discussions with trained facilitators, in addition to internet and wi-fi access.
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We have been approached to include our MOOC on the French Revolution into this project. A very exciting initiative.
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May 21, 2014 6:47 PM
We have been approached to include our MOOC on the French Revolution into this project. A very exciting initiative.
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May 21, 2014 6:48 PM
We have been approached to include our MOOC on the French Revolution into this project. A very exciting initiative.
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November 9, 2013 11:13 PM
Interesting to see a MOOC specific position. Is this the start of a new avenue in eLearning specialisation? There is hope for me yet! :-)
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The role of online education will be increasing significantly in New York’s State Universities this fall.
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A new report is encouraging California's institutions of higher education to reconsider how they structure online courses for optimal impact.
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GEORGIA Institute of Technology plans to offer a $7000 online masters degree to 10,000 students over the next three years without hiring much more than a handful of new instructors. Via Learning Environments
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Many people think that massive open online courses, or MOOCs, are the future of higher education in America.
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While a faculty union rips one university president over MOOC partnerships, a provost at another university defers action until a formal MOOC policy can be written. Via Learning Environments
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The free online engineering course could start a trend of directly advising high school students and their teachers on specific curriculums, motivated in part by the hypercompetitive college admissions process.
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Washington business schools are moving some degrees online, but no two approaches are the same.
University of Maryland business professor Hank Lucas spent two-and-a-half hours filming and editing an instructional video at his home office in Annapolis one morning last week. The end result, a 12-minute lecture for what is known as a massive open online course — or MOOC — that begins March 25.
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Creative Commons licenses provide a flexible range of protections and freedoms for authors, artists, and educators.
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THe University of Maryland's CIO discusses their involvement with Coursera, its institutional goals, and what it takes to create a MOOC. Via Learning Environments
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Professor Yossi Sheffi, Director of the MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics and Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, wrote about MOOCs on his LinkedIn Influencer blog. With his...
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Have the major American platforms already won the day, or is there still room for outsiders?
This does not necessarily represent a threat for the instructional players in the field already, because the latter have an educational reputation and offer certification of users, but also because a ‘good’ MOOC requires enormous efforts before going on line: hours and hours of pedagogical video recording and a really solid course content.
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University leaders and government officials from five continents on Thursday explored challenges and opportunities from economics to diversity that higher education faces. The second day of the Princeton-Fung Global Forum in Parisalso featured vigorous debate on whether online learning platforms pose more risks or rewards for academia and society.
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We have argued that discussions of retention within MOOCs must always be considered in the context of student intent in order to have real meaning. At an even higher level, however, one might ask the question of whether retention is even the right metric by which to measure success in a MOOC. Via Learning Environments
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Almost 60 professors signed a letter to Michael Smith, dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, requesting that he form a committee “to draft a set of ethical and education principles” that will govern the faculty’s involvement in HarvardX, according to the letter sent yesterday and reprinted in today’s Harvard Crimson.
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Coursera, meanwhile, announced on Wednesday that it had created partnerships with a raft of companies and nonprofit groups that will work on translating its MOOCs into various foreign languages, including Arabic, Japanese, Kazakh, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Ukrainian, which are the native tongues of a number of countries where Coursera’s English-language MOOCs have been popular. Via Learning Environments
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Campus Technology has launched a new Facebook Page for sharing ideas about massive open online courses.
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The union representing professors at San Jose State University wrote the following statement expressing concerns about recent efforts by the university's president, Mohammad H. Qayoumi, to work with commercial MOOC providers. (See a related article.) Via Learning Environments
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In an open letter, the San Jose professors worry that public higher education will suffer if scholar-student interaction is replaced with videotaped content.
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Nothing is hotter in the education world right now than the massive open online course, or MOOC. MOOCs make an elite education available to anyone, typically for free but without course credit. Via Learning Environments
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Putting free U.S. college courses online is only the first step to filling higher education needs around the world.
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A landmark bill has been proposed in the Senate to force California's universities to give credit for online classes.
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A great 'student voice' video showing the real impact and reach of MOOCs for higher education.