During a year spent learning about MOOCs and listening to the people who make them, I noticed a continued curiosity over what those Harvard Business School (HBS) guys were cooking up with regard to their anticipated foray into large-scale online education. The assumption seemed to be that if anyone could figure out a way to […]
What My Free MOOC BA Might Mean for Tomorrow’s College Kids (and Their Parents)
The site seems to be drawing more readers whose interest in Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and other forms of free learning is based around one of the questions I’ve been trying to answer over the last year: what do these new, no-cost resources mean for students (and their parents) contemplating their options in a […]
Executive Shuffles at Coursera and edX
The big MOOC news this week involved the leadership changes taking place at the two biggest MOOC providers: Coursera and edX. As most readers probably already know, Coursera just announced that Richard Levin, former President of Yale, will be taking on the CEO role of the Silicon Valley based MOOC provider. This means new roles […]
MOOC Platforms
I recently received a note from American Online congratulating me for having been a user of their mail service for twenty years. Unsurprisingly, my kids greeted the news with a sneer followed by an eye roll. For they, after all, are far more hip than either I or their mom (another AOL user) having revolted […]
Immersive Learning
If anyone’s interested, I started a four-part series over at EdSurge that talks about the potential markets for MOOCs, now that we’re getting past that stage of considering them the destroyers of the academy as we know it. Meanwhile, I’d like to talk about a different mode of self-education that I discovered during the course […]
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