Posts Tagged ‘MOOC’
No Stinkin’ Badges? Mozilla’s Erin Knight on “Open Badges” (Video)
by John O. Harney
November 8, 2012
NEBHE held its University Unbound conference in Boston last month, bringing together more than 400 educators and opinion leaders to discuss how MOOCs and other innovations are disrupting higher education's hold on knowledge, instruction and credentialing. Here is some of what Mozilla's Erin Knight said about her "Open Badges" work—an alternative credentialing system allowing learners ...
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Pardon the Disruption … Innovation Changes How We Think About Higher Education
by Philip DiSalvio
September 4, 2012
The first online course from MITx titled 6.002x: Circuits and Electronics, offered earlier this year, had more students than the entire number of living students who have graduated from the university. Indeed, that number is not far from the total of all the students enrolled there since the 19th century.
MIT reports that 155,000 people registered ...
Read MoreTags: Anant Agarwal, edX, MITx, MOOC, Philip DiSalvio, University of Massachusetts Boston | 2 Comments