Tag Archives: Coursera

LMS Market Update: May and June News

Posted on June 5, 2013 by

There have been a number of LMS and Learning Platform announcements over the past month or two that will help shape the market over the next year or more. One trend I’ve described is the transition from an LMS market to … Continue reading →

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MOOCs Beyond Professional Development: Coursera’s Big Announcement in Context

Posted on June 4, 2013 by

One aspect of last week’s Coursera announcement was the acknowledgement that MOOCs to date have primarily served as a mechanism for professional development, not as a mechanism for serving higher education per se. In the Chronicle article:  Daphne Koller, a co-founder … Continue reading →

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MOOC as Courseware: Coursera’s Big Announcement in Context

Posted on May 30, 2013 by

Today’s big news is that Coursera, the largest of the MOOC providers, has signed with 10 public statewide systems. As described by Ry Rivard at Inside Higher Ed: Universities from New Mexico to New York will join Coursera in a … Continue reading →

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MOOCs Explained: Radio Interview with University of Delaware

Posted on May 20, 2013 by

Just over a week ago I had the opportunity to participate in a radio interview for the University of Delaware’s local station WVUD, with the Campus Voices interview airing on May 17th. The interview was in advance of Delaware’s summer faculty … Continue reading →

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Big 3 MOOC Providers Turning One Year Old

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

We are in the middle of the first anniversary of the creation of the big 3 MOOC providers (Coursera, Udacity, edX). Sebastian Thrun announced the creation of Udacity on January 23, 2012 as described by Reuters. Daphne Koller and Andrew … Continue reading →

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