I hope that some day, online education for students everywhere will be as much fun as watching an Oscar winning movie. #Oscars
— Andrew Ng (@AndrewYNg) March 3, 2014
This tweet, from the co-founder of Coursera, highlights several troublesome aspects of the MOOC phenomenon and the manner in which we envision online education in an age of technological solutionism (see Morozov).…
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Loading...My research and scholarship revolves around how learning technology (specifically recent explosions in distance and online learning technologies such as Khan Academy, cMOOCs and xMOOCs) affects the teaching profession. There is great scholarship on the difficulties of distance instruction, and a whole host of people writing about educational technology while showing concern to stakeholders existing in academics. …
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...Coursera announced this week the addition of a Career Services department for students in the organization. According to the website, students who opt-in for the program will submit a resume and other information to the site, which will be viewable by selected partner companies. …
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