Phil Hill has written an interesting post about student patterns in MOOCs. I have written about this earlier this year. But Phil continued with this research and it is getting more interesting. Below the main figure:
He identified 5 different types o… more »
Archives for: "October 2013"
The registration has started for two new DelftX courses that start in March and April of 2014.
Aeronautical Engineering
The first course is Introduction to Aeronautical Engineering:
Discover the fascinating world of aviation by investigating aeronaut… more »
This summer Philip guo, an assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Rochester, spend time at EdX as visiting research scientist.
In his research he looked at video usage, obtained from analyses of a few edX math and science courses.… more »
William G. Bowen has written an interesting article about online learning in EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 48, no. 5 (September/October 2013). William G. Bowen is President Emeritus of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, President Emeritus of Princeton University,… more »
In 2012 heeft de TU Delft mee gedaan aan grassrootsprojecten als onderdeel van de Innovatieregeling Learning Analytics 2012. De evaluatie van deze projecten is nu beschikbaar als het artikel: ‘Learning analytics in het hoger onderwijs: mogelijkheden en… more »
An interesting blogpost of Edutechnica. Based on open data they created a dataset of all universities in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia including their enrollment numbers, geographical coordinates, and URLs. That was not al… more »
Kom ook naar de netwerkdag van de special interest group Open Education en ontmoet collega’s die actief zijn op het terrein van open educational resources, open education en MOOC's. Tijdens de netwerkdag is er volop gelegenheid om ervaringen uit te… more »
Wednesday the French Ministry of Higher Education announced the launch of France Universite Numerique (French Digital University), a national MOOC platform which is funded by the ministry.
Over 100 higher education institutions throughout France will p… more »
As part of the OpenEducationEurope portal the European Commission also created an European MOOCs Scoreboard. If I look at the scoreboard I have the idea that 276 European MOOCs are not correct. The number seems to high to me.
For example I looked at my… more »