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10 Secrets of Online Course Design from Award-Winning MOOCs

WBT Systems

An online Coursera course, Modern American Poetry , aka ModPo, is one of the 50 most popular MOOCs of all time. It’s taught by Professor Al Filreis of the University of Pennsylvania who received Coursera’s 2016 Transformation Award for helping 140,000 students transform their lives. 1 – Build community in advance.

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2018 eLearning Predictions: Updated Hype Curve

Forj

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. MOOCs: We will go against the grain a bit here and argue that MOOCs AREN’T DEAD. All the MOOCs out there. Plateau of Productivity.

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Learning from Big Learning: 15 Lessons

Leading Learning

Venture capital firms have jumped back into the game head first, massive open online course (MOOC) providers, originally rooted in universities, have gone public or been bought , and big Web firms like LinkedIn and Google have become major players. The MOOC 3. Yes, I know: most people sign up for MOOCs and never complete them.

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How Associations Can Transform Higher Education

Reid All About it

Right now, today, in 2016 is the best time to start up. Maybe you’ve seen them speak at a conference or webinar, read their blogs or even worked with them. Thanks to MOOCs , many people around the world are patching together a college-level education by taking classes from Brown, Penn, UVA, Harvard and other respected universities.

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8 New Ideas for Engaging Online Students

WBT Systems

The course you deliver in 2018 should not be the same course you delivered in 2016. 10 Secrets of Online Course Design from Award-Winning MOOCs. Stories are a good opportunity to make your course timely too, our next topic. #5: 5: Regularly update course content. Articles, videos, podcast episodes and conference session recordings.

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The Many Benefits of Selling Online Education to Corporate Members

WBT Systems

Even MOOCs have caught on. Coursera signaled its shift in focus from individuals to corporations when they launched Coursera for Business in August 2016—“a powerful way to help leading companies around the world address the rapidly evolving training and development needs of their employees.”.

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The Market for Adult Lifelong Learning

Leading Learning

In a pre-pandemic article, Forbes reported that the adult learning services market in the United States, both online and offline, was about USD 10 billion as of 2016. Coursera and edX, the two largest and most recognizable massive open online course (MOOC) providers, were both founded in 2012. We do, however, have significant clues.