MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses)

MOOC2Degree Initiative Raises the For-Credit Profile of MOOCs

January 30, 2013

New Program Brings an Innovative Twist to the World of MOOCs. Last week, Academic Partnerships introduced the MOOC2Degree program. Through this innovative effort, some of the public universities that Academic Partnerships works with are going to offer an initial course in a degree program as a free MOOC. Students who complete the course successfully will [...]

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Learning About the Use of Media Servers in Education

January 20, 2013

What is a Media Server and how are schools using them? From time to time I come across the mention of “media servers” and find myself wanting to better understand this technology and how it being used in meeting the needs of educational institutions. This weekend I decided to do some investigating. Here I share [...]

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Four Infographics About 2012′s Top Trending Education Technology Topic – MOOCs

December 19, 2012

MOOCs have really taken off this year, with exploding offerings, millions of enrollments, and lots of media coverage. Regular EmergingEdTech readers know that MOOCs have been a very hot topic throughout 2012, and the momentum keeps building. A key development in the latter half of the year has been increased effort by many colleges to [...]

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Longwood University Combines Gaming and MOOC Technology to Offer Free Career Readiness Education to High School Students Everywhere

November 18, 2012

Badgestack and Longwood U combine forces to offer students a head start on what they need to know to succeed in today’s work force. Can it get much more innovative and community-focused than this? Longwood University in Virginia has worked with one-of-a-kind learning platform creator BadgeStack to offer a MOOC designed to help High School [...]

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My MOOC Journal: Coursera Operations Management Course – Weeks 2 through 4

October 31, 2012

This course is a lot of work – it’s challenging and robust, and I’m learning a lot. This isn’t my first online course, I’ve taken one before – it was a lot of work, and I learned a good deal. But this is my first MOOC, and I wondered if a course delivered to tens [...]

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My MOOC experience – Coursera Course Journal Week 1

October 3, 2012

Observations about my experience in a free Coursera MOOC. So What’s a MOOC? First, for anyone who might not yet be aware of it – a “MOOC” is a Massive Open Online Course. With all the attention these have been getting lately, a few of us at The College of Westchester are taking some of [...]

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10 Emerging Education and Instructional Technologies that all Educators Should Know About (2012)

September 9, 2012

The technologies that can have the best impact on education are evolving quickly from year to year, and the pace seems to be quickening. Naturally, as author of EmergingEdTech, I’m always keeping an eye out for education and instructional technologies that are emerging from the seemingly endless array of tools and concepts that are out there [...]

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How will MOOCs impact the future of college education?

April 25, 2012

Massive Open Online Courses are leveraging today’s technology to provide (typically) free access to world class education. Only the proverbial ostrich (you know, the one with it’s head in the sand) could look at the growing popularity of MOOCs and not acknowledge that technology has the potential to radically transform how education is delivered and [...]

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