Posts Tagged ‘MOOCs’
MOOCs: When Opening Doors to Education, Institutions Must Ensure that People with Disabilities Have Equal Access
by Nicholas Anastasopoulos and Amanda Marie Baer
July 22, 2013
Massive Open Online Courses (“MOOCs”) are free online courses offered by institutions of higher education to individuals across the world, without any admissions criteria. Through web-based courses hosted by MOOC platforms such as Coursera or edX, student-participants learn by accessing media, including documents, pictures and uploaded lectures on the course website.
While MOOCs may make access ...
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New Directions for Higher Education: Q&A with ACE’s Molly Corbett Broad on Attainment
by Philip DiSalvio and Journal Staff
July 9, 2013
In April, NEJHE launched its New Directions for Higher Education series to examine emerging issues, trends and ideas that have an impact on higher education policies, programs and practices.
The first installment of the series featured Philip DiSalvio, dean of the College of Advancing & Professional Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston, interviewing Carnegie Foundation ...
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COOCs Over MOOCs
by Howard E. Horton
May 17, 2013
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are all the rage these days and are being offered as a potential way to shorten the degree-attainment process and thereby reduce costs. With escalating tuition at public and private institutions and shrinking median household income, the energy around MOOCs is fueled by the question often asked by students, parents ...
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Does Community Engagement Have a Place in a Placeless University?
by Dan W. Butin
March 25, 2013
NEJHE on Models that Will Change Higher Ed Forever
It will be truly ironic if the most impersonal technology of all ends up saving the most personal kind of teaching and learning in higher education.
I speak about the dramatic rise of online learning and MOOCs. Everyone, it seems, is talking about and questioning the relevance and ...
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Add a Caption and Call It Accessible? Not so Fast!
by Alan Girelli
March 18, 2013
NEJHE on Models that Will Change Higher Ed Forever
MOOCs claim to make education accessible to everyone, but institutions offering MOOCs have yet to define best practices for accessible design. For many, universal design efforts end when course video material has been captioned. Captioning is important, but the idea that you can just caption course video ...
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Seeking New Directions: Be Part of a Bold NEJHE Series Exploring Models that Will Change Higher Ed Forever
by John O. Harney
February 12, 2013
The New England Journal of Higher Education (NEJHE) invites you to be part of a new series examining emerging issues, trends, innovations and ideas that will make a profound impact on higher education in New England and globally.
The series called “New Directions for Higher Education” will feature interviews with key visionaries by Philip DiSalvio, dean ...
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Coming to Terms with MOOCs: A Community College Angle
by Mary L. Fifield
January 22, 2013
When MIT approached Bunker Hill Community College (BHCC) to participate in edX, the new Harvard/MIT massive open online course (MOOC) initiative, we reacted with both interest and skepticism. What did MIT have in mind for Bunker Hill Community College? How would edX “transform the way that community college students learn” as edX President Anant Agarwal ...
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I Am Not a Machine
by Dan W. Butin
November 30, 2012
An education dean reflects on MOOCs …
I am not a machine.
This makes my college students happy. Though, to be honest, they assume as much since I walk into the classroom, make some small talk and launch into my lecture. After a few minutes, I may stop, ask for questions, prompt some discussion and perhaps tell ...
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“University Unbound” Rebounds: Can MOOCs Educate as well as Train?
by George McCully
October 26, 2012
In the days since NEBHE convened hundreds of educators and opinion leaders in Boston for the University Unbound conference, we've received a surge of reactions including this one from George McCully, founder of the Catalogue for Philanthropy.
NEBHE has begun focusing the attention of New England institutions on the MOOC movement, which will affect them ...
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Exploring Higher Education Business Models (If Such a Thing Exists)
by John O. Harney
October 8, 2013
The global economic recession has caused students, parents and policymakers to reevaluate personal and societal investments in higher education—and has prompted the realization that traditional higher ed “business models” may be unsustainable.
Jay A. Halfond of Boston University and Peter Stokes of Northeastern University recently conducted a non-scientific "pulse" survey of presidents at smaller ...
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