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Beyond MOOC Hype
As scores of colleges rush to offer free online classes, the mania over massive open online courses may be slowing down. Even top proponents of MOOCs are acknowledging critical questions remain unanswered, and are urging further study. Read More »
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California's Move Toward MOOCs Sends Shock Waves, But Key Questions Remain Unanswered
Supporters of newly proposed legislation in California hope to reduce the number of students shut out of key courses by forging an unprecedented partnership between traditional public colleges and online-education upstarts. But on Wednesday specific details of how the deal would work were hard to pin down. Read More »
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GSB Pushes For Online Education
Even by the usual standard of acronyms, Mooc is particularly clumsy. But is this new buzzword the future of education? Read More »
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Harvard & MIT Announce EdX, a Disruptive Joint Venture That Will Offer Free Online Courses
By the time the first MITx course launched, 90,000 people had already registered, merely proving the popularity of online education. Today, however, with the help of Harvard University, MIT’s upped the ante. Together, the two have announced EdX, a new tool designed to build on both schools’ experience in online learning. Read More »
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India has the second largest enrollment in Online Education in the world
edX’s open source platform has become a favoured massive online open course (MOOC) destination for students from India. Read More »
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Kitware Announces New Fall Courses
To better serve the open-source software community and our collaborators, Kitware is increasing the course offerings for this fall. In addition to the three courses already scheduled in our Lyon location, we will be hosting three on-site courses in New York and adding three courses into our regular online rotation. Read More »
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My MOOC Improves My Classroom
Amidst all the angst within academia generated by the new MOOCs (massive open online courses) and online education in general, actually working on a MOOC for the last six months has convinced me of one thing: MOOCs will make the classroom better. Read More »
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Open Source Education Software Unveiled By Google
Online education startups such as the Khan Academy, along with new efforts by MIT, Stanford, and Harvard have helped spur interest in and add legitimacy to the notion of remote learning. Now Google is lending its brainpower to the rapidly growing area by releasing a tool called Course Builder, open source software designed to let anyone create online education courses. Read More »
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OPENPediatrics Open Sources Medical Diagrams and Animations
OPENPediatrics (OP), a free online education and best practice sharing community for pediatric clinicians worldwide, has launched a new library of openly licensed medical animations and illustrations, making them available for non-commercial educational use. The new multimedia library draws on the extensive collection of animations and illustrations developed for didactic and procedural videos created for the OP clinician community site.
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Stanford Makes Coursework Available On New Open-Source Platform
Stanford online coursework will be available starting this summer on a new open-source platform, OpenEdX, the university announced Tuesday. Read More »
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Stanford Online Coursework To Be Available On New Open-Source Platform
As part of its effort to promote expanded access to high-quality online learning opportunities around the world, Stanford helps launch the OpenEdX open-source platform and begins offering summer coursework on it. Read More »
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The MOOC That Roared
How Georgia Tech’s new, super-cheap online master’s degree could radically change American higher education. Read More »
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Udacity Announces Open Education Alliance To Prepare Students For Tech Jobs
If you want to land a job at Google, a new industry alliance, not a fresh B.S. in Computer Science, may be the key to your future. Read More »
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