Working my way through four years worth of classes over the last eleven months required dusting off those academic study habits that tend to go fallow post graduation. This includes good habits such as pacing your work, reading books and articles closely and quietly, taking notes during lectures, researching thoroughly and double-checking written assignments for […]
Interview with Danny King of Accredible and David Blake of Degreed
On today’s podcast, we’re joined by the founders of two different companies: Degreed and Accredible, each of which are dedicated to helping students – including MOOC students –signal their learning through the use of portfolio systems that take different approaches to how students can communicate their traditional and non-traditional educational accomplishments to the world. If […]
Define MOOC
The author of this book on crowdsourcing took a bold move in trying to define the term in a way that would make it clear when one entity (like the t-shirt company Threadless) should be considered an example of the phenomenon while another (like Wikipedia) should not. And since I’m writing a title for the […]
An Answer to the Question of MOOC attrition rates?
Data relating to MOOC activity has been trickling out for quite some time. For instance, the University of Edinburgh released this 42-page report detailing their analysis of statistics related to six courses they released via Coursera in 2013. And data related to edX’s popular Circuits and Electronics course has been making the rounds for quite […]
Singing the Praises of Short MOOCs
Well the professor for Coursera’s Fall and Rise of Jerusalem threw a peer-review essay project at us at the end of the course. And while it’s nice to have to do some writing after a fairly long creative assignment drought, it does mean that it will take another few days to finish the class I […]
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