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Remember the MOOCs? After Near-Death, They’re Booming (Published 2020)
Online education faces the same challenges that content does more broadly. There’s just too much good content out there, and very few have been able to rise above the noise.
Packy McCormick • Hamilton & Disney's Education Flywheel (Audio Edition)
More than 100,000 people worldwide signed up for a course on machine learning but only 13,000 completed the course. Introduction to Data Bases drew 92,000 enrollees but only 7,000 finished.
Derek Bok • Higher Education in America
Phase 3: Education designed for the internet (e.g. MasterClass Codecademy). We are still early in this phase — actually designing classes for the web. When Phase 1 made information easily accessible, the role of education became not the transfer of facts (which many classes still rely on) — but to inspire you to go learn, to go do, to geek out. To ... See more
Danielle Newnham • When You Stop Learning, You’re Dead
Due to coronavirus, absenteeism has skyrocketed in the last month with some districts seeing 33% of students sporadically logging in. Compounding this is up to 20–25% of households that lack internet access. While 80% of households have a laptop, with parents working from home, there are less to go around. Widespread learning loss may be saved by c... See more
Mercedes Bent • The Future is Happening Now: Accelerating into a New World of Edtech
