At the Coursera Partner Conference they announced that the revenue of the Signature Track already exceeded the $ 4 million. This has been achieved through their Coursera certificate track, which, at $30-$100 per course, has seen an average 1.2% conversi… more »
Tag: "mooc"
Last month our British colleagues published an interesting report on the pedagogy of MOOCs. Although it is focused on the UK, it is interesting for everyone who is involved with MOOCs.
This report addresses the question of pedagogy within the Massive O… more »
Last year I blogged about the optimal video length for student engagement. The researchers have continued their work with these data.
They classified the 842 videos of 4 EdX courses in four categories:
a.) a recorded classroom lecture, b.) an instruc… more »
Currently EdX has 32 universities that are member of the xConsortium. EdX noticed a growing demand from foundations, NGO's, business and universities to offer courses on edx.org. After quiet some discussion with the consortium we have decided on a new m… more »
MOOCs have gone from a distant idea to a global phenomenon in less than five years. During this period MOOCs have innovated at a dazzling speed in content creation, delivery, feedback, testing and other aspects of the knowledge delivery process. The exc… more »
Harvard and MIT have made a suite of open source interactive visualization tools for the data of moocs. This is a follow up of their release of a series of working papers:
The technologies, dubbed Insights, draw upon near real-time, de-identified dat… more »
Last week I attended the second European MOOC Summit in Lausanne and I was not the only one. More than 400 attendees from a lot of different countries, not only European. There were 20 participants from the Netherlands. The conference was held in the Ro… more »
New Media Consortium (NMC) and EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) recently released the NMC Horizon Report > 2014 Higher Education Edition. This eleventh edition describes annual findings from the NMC Horizon Project, an ongoing research project des… more »
Earlier this week MIT and Harvard University announced the release of a series of working papers based on 17 online courses offered on the edX platform. The working paper series features detailed reports about individual courses; these reports reveal di… more »
Last monday I attended a public hearing of the committee on Culture & Education of the European Parlement. The subject of the hearing was "New technologies and open educational resources". I was nominated as expert by the MEP Marietje Schaake of the… more »