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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.
from Hamilton & Disney's Education Flywheel (Audio Edition) by Packy McCormick
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- 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
from Are Micro Community Courses (MiCCs) the future of online education? by Alen Faljic
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- Online learning just became mainstream, and now a handful of startups have started reimagining the future of education once again in India by working to integrate the metaverse into everyday learning
from What will learning in the metaverse look like? by Naandika Tripath
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