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HuffPost Live gets in on the MOOC action

May 13, 2024 Leave a comment

Last Friday HuffPost Live hosted a Google Hangout about MOOCs and the decision by Amherst College not to join edX. Amherst President Biddy Martin was part of the disucssion, saying, “The faculty isn’t yet certain that it’s the right moment to get involved in any of the particular firms that are out there. That doesn’t mean the faculty isn’t interested ... Read More »

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New Online Course Platform Seeks to Tie in Job Skills

This week in higher education, we saw an announcement for a new online platform to help prospective online students search through available online course offerings from several of the largest online degree and MOOC providers. The idea is to create a new search platform for online course offerings, specifically the ones that tie into in-demand job skills for employers who... Read more →
Facebook Launching Mobile Education Pilot Program in Africa

In such a short time, our mobile phones have gone from being, well, telephones, to becoming our on-the-go Internet browsers, music players, social connectors, video game portals, cameras, fitness trackers, email platforms and so much more. And is it now becoming a key component in student learning? Many colleges and universities are asking themselves this question and trying to understand... Read more →
How Do You Like Your Classes, Scrambled or Flipped?

There’s a lot of people already on the “flipped classroom” bandwagon. For the uninitiated, the idea behind the flip teaching approach is that students do their course work—watching the professor deliver a lecture via video, doing research, writing, etc.—away from school, then come to the classroom for in-person discussion with teachers and classmates. But there’s a new movement in higher education hold off... Read more →
Top Five Trends in Higher Education for 2014

Competency-based learning has been a recurring theme here at Aspire in 2013—and we’re not surprised to see that it’s one of the National Journal’s 5 Higher-Ed Trends for 2014, as outlined by NJ writer Sophie Quinton. Other trends Quinton predicts in the pipeline are skyrocketing student loan debt, teacher effectiveness and concerns regarding privacy and data security. It’s worth a moment... Read more →
MOOCs Get LinkedIn to Employers

Struggling with low completion rates, some providers of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) have launched a new strategy to increase student motivation. And it’s social. Social media platform LinkedIn announced this week it would begin a pilot program to allow students to display online courses they have completed on their LinkedIn profile. That way, students may be able to market themselves... Read more →

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