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Are Micro Community Courses (MiCCs) the future of online education?
In the most rigorous evaluation yet conducted of an online course, William Bowen and his colleagues found that students in dozens of courses who were taught statistics in the blended, Carnegie Mellon manner learned as much as those taught in the conventional lecture course format.
Derek Bok • Higher Education in America
I need no convincing of the value of campus life and in-classroom education. I recognize that online platforms can’t perfectly replace what we deliver on campus. But they can fulfill key pieces of our core mission and reach many more students, of all ages and economic backgrounds, at a far lower cost. What online services lack in quality, they make... See more
Michael D. Smith • Are Universities Going the Way of CDs and Cable TV?
Millions of people are looking to learn new skills online yet current platforms like Udemy lack the community and topic-based interaction necessary to build truly immersive educational experiences. This hole is paving the way for a new generation of startups that are unbundling Udemy through a mix of community, interactivity, and high-quality conte... See more
Greg Isenberg • The Unbundling of Udemy
The generative intellectual environments that academic institutions house and foster are being recreated or entirely rethought online, outside of the brick walls of a university. Internet salons, writer collectives, open-source software, fellowships, and cohort-based courses are providing modern alternatives to those institutions. You don’t need an... See more
future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future
Indeed, we are witnessing a global boom in e-learning: examples of popular platforms include W3Schools, Khan Academy, University of the People, Open University, Academic Earth, Luminosity Brain Training, Mind Gym, Gems Education, EdX, Sillshare, Udacity, Udemy, TeacherTube, MIT Opensource and CK-12. This is a promising trajectory, but one with two
... See moreWaqas Ahmed • The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility
Online education 1.0 featured MOOCs, which were akin to banner ads in the early days of the internet - a clumsy attempt to bring the offline paradigm online. 1.0 was the Wild West - fragmented, scam-ridden, noisy, and uncredentialed. A much-cited MIT study highlighted MOOCs’ abysmal 4% completion rate.