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 […]
Measuring MOOCs – Human vs. Data
I had no sooner finished drafting a section of my senior thesis which hails Canada’s contributions to the massive learning phenom than a note arrived from George Veletsianos, Canada Research Chair at the Royal Roads University School of Education and Technology. In it, Professor Veletsianos pointed me towards an e-book he and his students put […]
MOOCs Unmoored
Pieces like this one fit a pattern we’ve seen during the second half of this year where negative “backlash” stories have muscled out the educational utopianism attached to earlier media accounts of the MOOC phenomenon. Yet even when listing all the alleged failings of the massive online course, such stories still find it difficult to say […]
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