Winners of Contest “MOOC Production Fellowship” Announced
Winners of Contest “MOOC Production Fellowship” Announced
In an attempt to fuel technological innovation in European higher education, the reputable German foundation Stifterverband and Iversity company announced on March 11 the contest “The MOOC Production Fellowship” worth €25,000 for each winner. (see our post of 13/03: http://blogs.uoc.edu/unescochair/blog/2013/03/13/contest-the-mooc-production-fellowship/ )[…]
New Research Grants to Study Student Experiences & Systemic Impact of MOOCs
The MOOC Research Initiative, financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, will award grants of $10,000 to $25,000 to researchers seeking to explore issues such as student experiences in MOOCs and the free courses’[…]
30 Mln in Private Funds Raised by Instructure, a New Generation LMS Provider
Some months ago we already pointed out the trend of the growth in private capital in Education. Yesterday, Instructure, a company that has developed Canvas, a LMS platform, announced today that it had won $30-million[…]
The Dark Side of Big Data
Big data is another big hit poised to transform society, from how we diagnose illness to how we educate children and more. Data analytics is not considered a hype (yet?), however there a voices that[…]
SAT Tests Get Cancelled Massively…Because of Cheating
SATs are standardized tests for college admissions that students in U.S. and worldwide must undertake in order to gain admittance to American schools, including prestigious Harvard and Stanford. A SAT exam session scheduled for last May 4, for[…]
A MOOC-like Open Online Master Program, Free or Accredited at low-cost
Online Master program in Computer Science (OMS CS) was announced yesterday by Georgia Tech at two levels. Courses in the program will be free through Udacity’s site, made up of video lectures and computer-graded assignments.[…]
A MOOC Moratorium at American University
On January 9, 2013, the provost at American University (AU), Scott A. Bass, issued a Memorandum to the deans regarding AU policy on MOOCs. After the April debate, sparked by the faculty members of San[…]
MOOCs for Teacher Professional Development Partnership
Most of recent news about developments of open online courses have been gloomy. The black shadow of MOOCs started to crawl into technological innovation of any kind. Just to mention the title of an article[…]
MOOC Teaches How to Cheat in Online Courses, With Eye to Prevention
Cheating in online education remains a concern for many instructors and institutions, with some universities hiring online-proctoring companies to monitor students through webcams. Others require students to take examinations at a physical testing site. Besides[…]
Why some universities vote against MOOCs
UPDATE: May 7, 2013: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad MOOC? | Faculty Backlash Grows San Jose State University has been at the front line of experimenting with MOOC models in its search for[…]