Flipped learning skepticism: Do students want to have lectures?
University in Michigan, continues his series on skepticism about flipped learning with a post that explores student resistance.
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Lectures aren’t just boring, they’re ineffective, too, study finds
A new study by Scott Freeman of the University of Washington, Seattle, found that undergraduate students in classes with traditional stand-and-deliver lectures are 1.5 times more likely to fail than students in classes that use more stimulating, active learning methods.
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Udacity to stop issuing free certificates of completion
Udacity has announced that they will stop issuing free course completion certificates on May 16.
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EdX taps CourseTalk for online course reviews
edX has teamed up with CourseTalk to provide a platform for course reviews that includes star ratings and in-depth comments.
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Out in front, and optimistic, about online education
The New York Times recently interviewed Richard Levin, the new Coursera CEO and former Yale president.
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New learning hubs locations hosted by The New York Public Library and seven other international partners
Coursera recently announced eight new learning hub partners, including The New York Public Library, which is their first hub located in the United States.
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Five lessons for online teaching from finishing a MOOC
Historian Michelle Moravec suggests five practical lessons she learned about teaching online from taking a MOOC.
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Passive MOOC students don’t retain new knowledge, study finds
Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University surveyed about 400 students who were taking the Harvard Medical School’s “Fundamentals of Clinical Trials” and found that most students entered the course hoping to gain skills to boost their careers.
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JOLT special section on massive online courses
The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) has published a special issue on MOOC research.
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Open Educational Resources (OER) – a video primer
Rory McGreal, the UNESCO/Commonwealth of Learning Chair in Open Educational Resources, shares his expertise in a series of 10 short, informative videos that address the what, why, where, and how of open educational resources.
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