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Insights - A MOOC Student Visualization ToolsResearch fellows at HarvardX and MIT have developed a tool called Insights that visualize the age, gender, location and level of education of their almost 2 million MOOC users. More than one-third of Harvard's MOOC students are in the U.S., compared to about one-quarter of MIT's. Indian students account for 15.5 percent of HarvardX's total enrollment.
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Stanford offers a MOOC on CreativityStanford University launches an innovative course "Creativity: Music to My Ears" which connects participants around the world to build creative problem-solving skills through the lens of music. The course features contributions of Warner Music Group artists, songwriters and executives.
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Learn Pharm.D. from the comfort of your homeAn U.S. school of pharmacy is launching a new online pharmacy program to earn Doctor of Pharmacy from the comfort of your home. Students must have already earned two-year associates degrees before joining the online pharmacy program.
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MOOCs' educational impact is invaluableMOOCs has the capability to transform the traditional model and democratize education. It enables a freedom to learn by connecting underserved communities with the finest professors and institutions from around the world. Through this developing model, content experts are distributing their expertise to the masses.
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Time for UK universities to go to IndiaIndia will be enrolling the largest number of students into tertiary education in the world by 2020, warns a British Council report. UK universities are being urged to forming partnerships in India, creating new opportunities for UK students and academics to study and teach there, as well as encouraging collaboration through research.
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NovoEd - A Collaborative online learning platformNovoED is the collaborative online social learning platform which will offer both MOOCs and smaller private courses in a social collaborative and connected environment. It will offer a unique learning opportunity for learners to expand their educational opportunities and tools for universities to use to improve teaching methods and learning.
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Can Harvard fix the issue of loneliness in online education?According to a study by HarvardX and MITX conducted on their 2012-13 online offerings, 95% of the students dropped out of courses without completion. So, Harvard has planned to sidestep this problem that keeps most students from sticking with the classes. They will be employing a clever collaboration called "Project Lever" in their Business education course "Innovating in Health Care", which has more than 10,000 registered participants.
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Competency-based degrees - A revolution to disrupt Higher EducationThe U.S Department of Education is interested in supporting competency-based learning as students could earn a college degree through demonstration of skills and knowledge in a required subject area through a series of carefully designed assessments. In U.S. competency-based degrees are recognised by employers for hiring, promotion and advancement.
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QUEST - Involving students in Quality AssuranceThe QUEST, run by the European Students’ Union has analysed the views of the students on the quality of higher education. The have also identified the areas in which the students could be actively involved in quality assurance and enhancement.
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Corporates embrace MOOCs to trim bill on job trainingAccording to a report corporate companies' bill runs to $160 billion annually for job training and certification. Hence, the corporate companies are adopting online courses as an effective and inexpensive way to train their workforce.