How video production affects student engagement
Philip Guo, an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, summarizes a paper he published recently on the optimal video length for student engagement in MOOCs.
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Not biting
The first British MOOC to offer students the option to pay for academic credit has ended, with none of its participants opting to purchase the official recognition.
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Elite universities face lower stakes but familiar concerns in MOOC space
Inside Higher Ed examines the debates that Cornell, Princeton, and Yale Universities are currently having about whether they should join--or stay with--Coursera and edX.
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Ten things I’ve learned (so far) from making a meta-MOOC
Cathy Davidson recently launched The History and Future of (Mostly) Higher Education MOOC on Coursera, which is connected to dozens of other courses and events distributed across the web.
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For Stanford MOOC instructors, trial and error breeds success
Faculty members at Stanford University say that as they run their MOOCs for the third or fourth time, their courses are "living up to (some of) the potential promised two years ago."
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Seeing the data: HarvardX interactive insights
HarvardX and MITx recently released their Insights platform to allow anyone to visually engage with data from their courses.
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The future of online education
Forbes recently published an interview with Richard Baraniuk, the founder and director of Connexions, a repository of open educational resources (OER) maintained by Rice University.
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UC Berkeley’s Wikipedian-in-residence is a first
Kevin Gorman is the first Wikipedian-in-residence at a U.S. college or university and will be providing University of California Berkeley undergraduates with guidance on publishing their academic work on Wikipedia.
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2020 vision: Outlook for online learning in 2014 and way beyond
Tony Bates explores the kinds of online learning he expects in both the near and far future given what he knows so far.
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How to make the most of the flipped classroom
This article showcases several professors and explores their best practices for making their classrooms more participatory.
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