New 'MOOC' Teacher PD Project Enlists Prominent Museums
Coursera is partnering with museums, not just teacher colleges, in a new effort to provide teacher professional development through "massively open online courses." Read Full Post >
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May 20, 2013
May 07, 2013
New 'MOOC' Model for Online PD Offers Diverse Course Lineup
Coursera's efforts to bring "MOOCs," massively open online courses, to teacher education will begin with 28 courses. Read Full Post >
May 07, 2013
Online PD from Coursera Includes Content, Teaching Skills
Coursera, a MOOC provider than recently shifted into K-12 teacher training, is initially offering 28 courses online. Read Full Post >
May 07, 2013
University Leaders Not Keen on 'MOOCs,' Survey Finds
A survey released by Gallup finds that only a fraction of college presidents believe "massively open online courses" will improve student learning or solve financial problems. Read Full Post >
May 02, 2013
My School of the Future Begins to Come Into Focus
Couple great large-scale projects with the evolving efficacy of elective online coursework and strong communities built around collaborative learning, effective advising, explicit exploration of values and social issues, and ever-popular athletic or performing arts programs, and it seems to me that schools of the future could easily encompass all the compelling ideas of the present. Read Full Post >
May 01, 2013
'MOOC' Provider Coursera Jumps Into K-12 and Teacher Education
Coursera, a major name in providing "massively open online courses," takes a step into K-12 schools by arranging to provide teacher training. Read Full Post >
May 01, 2013
'MOOC' Provider Coursera Moves Into K-12 Teacher Training
The provider of massively open online courses in higher education is partnering with professional-development organizations and schools of education to offer free teacher training. Read Full Post >
April 23, 2013
The K-12 MOOC: It's a Matter of Time
I'm not ready to suggest that we ought to replace high school with a succession of MOOCs, but I can see a place for them, thanks to my smart kid friends. By and large these are kids for whom school curricula are a baseline, hoops to be jumped through and milestones to be checked off on a transcript. Even so-called "college level" programs like AP and IB are more about putting sweat equity into transcripts than feeding their hungry intellects; more work doesn't always mean more thinking. Read Full Post >
October 22, 2012
Minnesota Coursera Ban Enacted, Then Rescinded
For about a day last week, residents there who wanted to take part in massively open online courses, or MOOCs, were told that it was illegal. Read Full Post >
