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McGreal, Rory

This evaluation report reflects on the activities of three Regional Centres (RCs) established by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) and regional partners. Regional Centres engage in capacity building and expansion of ...

Match: established

Soffer, Tal; Cohen, Anat; McGreal, Rory; Conrad, Dianne

The study presented in this paper examines the feasibility of using MOOCs as a learning environment in academic courses. This paper focuses on the students who participated in two MOOCs offered by Tel Aviv University ...

Match: Coursera

Perris, Kirk

The MOOC on MOOCs course offered jointly by the Commonwealth of Learning (COL), the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IIT‐K), and the Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP), in the fall, 2014, ...

Match: MOOC accreditation

Rosé, Carolyn P.; Siemens, George

The shared task on Prediction of Dropout Over Time in MOOCs involves analysis of data from 6 MOOCs offered through Coursera. Data from one MOOC with approximately 30K students was distributed as training data and ...

Match: MOOC attrition

Westermann Juárez, Werner; Venegas Muggli, Juan Ignacio; Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl; Arinto, Patricia B.

This chapter aims to understand the impact of Open Educational Resources (OER) on first-year mathematics students at the Instituto Profesional Providencia (IPP) in Santiago, Chile, where more than half (52%) of ...

Match: Khan Academy

Leach, Matthew; Hadi, Syed Munib

Much is made of the diversity for MOOCs learners—with their varied motivations and interests; yet MOOCs are often run and judged on the assumption that learners would progress through the course in its entirety, to ...

Match: digital badges

Boga, Sandi; McGreal, Rory

From the Conclusion: In summary, MOOCs as a type of globally-networked learning environment (GNLE) could become a very useful delivery model in the developing world – but not necessarily when tied to a specific ...

Match: Coursera

Campaign for the Future of Higher Education

The notion that MOOCs and other online courses will reduce the costs of providing higher education and the price students pay for it is a key part of the presumed “promise” of online learning. The question of ...

Match: MOOC business model

Barber, Michael; Donnelly, Katelyn; Rizvi, Saad

This publication argues that the next 50 years could see a golden age for higher education, but only if all players seize the initiative and act ambitiously. If not, an avalanche of change will sweep the system ...

Match: Coursera

Carey, Kevin

Discusses the history of Open Educational Resources in the United States, mentioning funding, stakeholders and examples of OERs.

Match: Khan Academy