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Enrollment has started for DelftX moocs
May 10th
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 »
Major Players in the MOOC Universe
Apr 30th
The Chronicle has created an Who's who and how are they connected. Although it only US-focused, it gives good insight how the MOOC ecosystem is organised. more »
Amherst decided not to join EdX
Apr 24th
Last week there was an interesting news item about Amherst College. The faculty decided not to join the EdX Consortium.
The first interesting thing is that the president didn't want to make the final decision:
Amherst President Carolyn (Biddy) Martin… more »
How Can MOOC Platforms Be More Dynamic?
Apr 22nd
According to Adam Heidebrink MOOC platforms can be more dynamic. In his article he made a comparison of the platforms Coursera, Canvas and EdX. He provides 4 preliminary suggestions:
Integrated real-time discussion
Crowdsourced annotations
Promote… more »
Automated essay grading software developed by EdX
Apr 5th
An interesting new feature that is coming to the EdX platform is the automated essay grading. This features enables the possibility that essays of students are automatically graded. This means that students can get instand feedback on their work.
The E… more »
Stanford and edX Collaborate on Open Source edX Platform
Apr 4th
Yesterday EdX and Stanford announced that they will team up their efforts in developing the EdX platform. This means that Stanford will merge their open-source mooc platform Class2Go into the EdX platform. The Chronicle wrote about this:
The move is a… more »
How to improve retention rate in online education
Apr 1st
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 »
How to make a Khan-style video
Mar 28th
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 »
Professors and their MOOCs
Mar 27th
The Chronicle has published the result of an survey among professor who have taught a mooc. They invited 184 professors and 104 reacted to the invitation. Although the findings are not scientific. They say "the most enthusiastic of the MOOC professors w… more »
edX MOOC Software Goes Open Source
Mar 14th
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 »
