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Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming (Published 2020)
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.
Packy McCormick • Hamilton & Disney's Education Flywheel (Audio Edition)
Online education 2.0 is about group courses, community, vocational training, and edutainment. A lot of smart people are experimenting with new approaches. Teachable is taking the Shopify approach of “arming the rebels” by enabling anyone to easily set up an online course. David Perell, Tiago Forte and Nat Eliason are building online-first schools f... See more
Packy McCormick • Hamilton & Disney's Education Flywheel (Audio Edition)
The rapid transition to remote schooling has supercharged trends in online learning — it’s possible that 3-5 years of behavior change has been condensed into a few short weeks. More independent/self-guided learning has required not only a re-thinking of curriculum but a shift in how students view their role in the learning experience. Creative resp... See more
Union Square Ventures (USV) • What We’re Learning About How We Learn | Union Square Ventures
If online courses are poorly designed, why have they become so popular? To students, MOOCs offer more convenience and lower cost than traditional education. To educators, it offers an unbelievably attractive business model with infinite scalability. You prepare a course once and, in theory, millions of people can buy it without your additional inpu... See more
Alen Faljic • Are Micro Community Courses (MiCCs) the future of online education?
Coursera, has seventy-seven million learners; edX has over thirty-five million. And user data reveals that two-thirds of them have already completed a bachelor’s degree or higher, while more than half are learning while holding a full-time job. There is clearly an appetite for continuing education—for new skills, new communities, new opportunities.