Tag Archives: MOOC

Harvard Faculty Request Faculty Oversight of HarvardX (Their Usage of edX)

Posted on May 24, 2013 by

Yesterday, 58 faculty members from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard wrote an open letter to the dean requesting faculty oversight of HarvardX. When schools sign up for edX, their implementations tend to be called SchoolX, thus HarvardX … 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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Open SUNY: A Game Changer in the Making

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Update 4/25 and bumped due to changes: Thanks to Greg Ketcham and Robert Knipe, I have replaced the 2009 interim proposal document with the updated advisory team report. This changes the intro blurb, description of 9 inter-dependent components, and list … Continue reading →

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Insight on MOOC student types from ELI Focus Session

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

Michael and I had the privilege of leading off the ELI Online Spring Focus Session on MOOCs (taking place today, Apr 3, and tomorrow). Thanks to Stephen Downes, we have a good set of notes on our presentation “Everything You … Continue reading →

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