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Are Micro Community Courses (MiCCs) the future of online education?
If we accept that 68% of students are concerned about online learning (community interaction, reliable certificates or a great user experience), then the idea that new providers will have to transform previous parts of the education experience (what we’ve called human education components) and adapt it to a new set of media becomes really interesti... See more
Transcend Network • Rescuing Human Education, and how tech-enabled learning is missing... 👭 Transcend Newsletter XXII
To summarize: On many MOOC platforms, the dominant learning modality is passive content consumption; there’s no interaction or real community; and there’s no time constraint. All this amounts to a tiny percentage of learners who actually follow through.
Wes Kao • In Online Ed, Content Is No Longer King—Cohorts Are
TECHNOLOGY: NEW FRONTIERS IN LEARNING
Scott H. Young • Ultralearning
A simulation-based MBA program optimized for remote work: One of the biggest challenges with vocational training is transferring learnings from a classroom to the real world
Mario Gabriele • Not Found
MOOCs a “budding revolution in global online higher education” and suggested that the online courses had the potential to “unlock a billion more brains to solve the world’s biggest problems.”
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
