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Top Universities Start Experimenting with Free Online Courses as a Way to Engage Alumni
Another reason to create MOOCs or Mini-MOOCs?
Alumni engagement... and fundraising!
Some of the top American universities involved with edX and Open edX are analyzing this...
Jupyter/IPython Notebooks: A Killer App in STEM Education… And An Engaging Course Proves It
Are Jupyter –previously IPython– notebooks a killer app in STEM education?
This what Prof. Lorena Barba, Chair of the Open edX Universities Symposium, stated during the...
Will MIT's Online MicroMaster's Be a New Unit of Currency in Higher Education?
MIT has started to talk to other universities regarding its new online credential called "MicroMaster's", according to MIT News.
The first universities that will choose to...
MIT Launches Its First Blended Master's Degree Course, along with a New Credential Called...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqDIomlUbCo
Welcome to the "try before you buy" model in higher education. In other words, you first try the course through a low-cost series of edX...
What Happens When the Universities' “Learn-Then-Work” Model Fails
"Learning should be thought as a lifelong pursuit. With a continual demand for professional development –and the personal fulfillment that goes with additional education–...
Google Launches Course Builder 1.9
https://youtu.be/luQfWSfb1s0
Google has launched a new version of its Course Builder LMS, the 1.9.0 release.
Course Builder 1.9, available on GitHub, improves the instructor's user interface...
"Watching a Lecture Is an Ineffective Way to Learn", Concludes Carnegie Mellon University
The way to learn from a MOOC is by doing.
A study by Carnegie Mellon University found that just watching videos without engaging interactively is an...
Udacity Creates the First MOOC Profitable Program: Its Nanodegrees Attract 10K Paid Students
Udacity's "Nanodegree" program is showing "a glimmer of success", according to The New York Times. Within one year, 10,000 students have enrolled into the program...
Researchers Discover a Cheating Technique to Acquire MITx and HarvardX Certificates
Researchers at MIT and Harvard have identified, through a new algorithm they developed, a new method of cheating with edX's certifications. This technique allowed cheaters to...
BadgeOne.com Website and API Released
IBL Studios launched this month the BadgeOne.com website in order to host everything related to this new badging solution. In addition, it released an API that will...
