Stanford University published an interesting report (PDF) about their online activities in 2013:
Since the first three Stanford MOOCs were offered in fall 2011, VPOL has awarded 66 faculty seed grants and has helped more than 145 faculty members from a… more »
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At the Coursera Partner Conference they announced that the revenue of the Signature Track already exceeded the $ 4 million. This has been achieved through their Coursera certificate track, which, at $30-$100 per course, has seen an average 1.2% conversi… more »
A small but import step for Delft University of Technology. Today we announced the appointments of a Dean of Open and Online Education and a Director of Education for Open and Online Education:
The Executive Board has appointed Dr.ir. Rob Fastenau, De… more »
Alastair Creelman and Linda Renland-Forsman have written an interesting paper on completion rates in online courses:
Statistics are often used to reveal significant differences between online and campus-based education. The existence of online courses… more »
Here a selection of interesting blog and news articles about MOOCs.
The attack of the MOOCs An army of new online courses is scaring the wits out of traditional universities. But can they find a viable business model?
How widely used are MOOC foru… more »
Terry Anderson described a research study about time factors in online learning. The study he describes is done with 80 full time online teachers, teaching 4 online courses during the same semester:
Teaching in any context varies a great deal based o… more »
Mike Caulfield wrote a long, but very interesting blog about the distributed flip:
The distributed flip is a way of approaching flipped classroom design. It’s worth noting that I’m using a fairly broad definition of flipped classroom here. This is no… more »
Vanmiddag organiseert de VVD een ronde tafel over open onderwijs. Samen met Anka Mulder ben ik uitgenodigd om daar bij aanwezig te zijn. De middag bestaat uit twee delen, waarbij het eerste deel zich richt op het hoger onderwijs en het tweede deel op po… more »
Errol Craig Sull has made a list of the 10 mayor obstacles and their solutions for teaching online. Losing all power and other related interruptions New to teaching/new to teaching online. A severe medical problem strains teaching efforts.… more »
Inmiddels zijn er drie universiteiten in Nederland die hebben aangekondigd om te starten met MOOCS.
Universiteit Leiden was de eerste met de aankondiging van "European Law" op het Coursera platform (inmiddels meer dan 10.000 deelnemers). De UvA heeft e… more »