There is still no clear view on the business models of MOOCs, although Coursera, Udacity and EdX are announcing almost every week new ventures:
IMF and edX Join Forces to Pilot Online Economics and Financial Courses (pay for courses)
edX and Massach… more »
Tag: "delftx"
For our DelftX MOOC Solar Energy we have created an introduction video to promote the course. In this animation the importance of Solar Energy as a sustainable and renewable energy source is explained. This free online education course (start September… more »
Yesterday the enrollment for the first two DelftX MOOCs have started on the Edx platform. The courses being offered are Solar Energy and Introduction to Water Treatment, both of which start on 16 September. These courses provide free online access to th… more »
Peter Rheinhardt wrote an interesting blog article about the retention in online education and then specifically in MOOCs:
I don?t want to tear down these products or the people who?ve built them, I?m rooting for them all the way. They just need som… more »
Salman Khan, the MIT alumnus and founder of Khan Academy, has shared his experience in creating Khan-style videos (KSV) with EdX Consortium through ?appropriately enough? a Khan-style video.
the Khan Academy has created a library of more than 4,000 s… more »
Last week Audrey Watters blogged about the question "What has the impact been of MOOCs on MIT OCW usage?". The answer from Steve Carson:
The site has seen ?record levels of traffic? since the MOOC craze began: 22.3 million visitors in 2012, up 25%… more »
Moving closer toward its vision of being an open-sourced learning platform, edX on Thursday released its XBlock SDK, the underlying architecture supporting edX course content.
From the start EdX has told that its strategy is focused on open. Last mon… more »
Last monday MIT and Harvard organised an seminar on MOOCs. The official title was "Online Learning and the Future of Residential Education". Anka attended the conference on behave of the TU Delft. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman was one of the… more »
On List EdTech there is an interesting post about the different universities that joined Coursera, EdX, Coursera and FutureLearn. Some interesting information I got from the article:
Coursera has universities from 17 countries, EdX from 5 and FutureL… more »
Today Delft University of Technology announced that we will join the EdX Consortium. more »