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Innovative model that combines the college campus and MOOCsBlack Mountain SOLE, a non-profit startup private learning community in North Carolina, US is trying to blend an on-campus experience with MOOCs. It teaches "learning by doing", with the premise that college’s last remaining selling point, in this digital age, is community.
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Colleges feel pressure to graduate more students for low costDue to pressure to graduate more students, higher education institutions and the policy makers reduce the credits for a course, offer some courses online, and remove some of the 'low productive' ones altogether. Many critics see this move as a lowering of standards.
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100 Engineering Colleges in India will get virtual lessonsFrom January 2014, students of hundred engineering colleges in India will have virtual classes taught by IIT professors. Subjects, including Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Computer Engineering and Mathematics among others, will be co-taught by senior IIT professors along with the regular college faculty.
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Knewton - A tool for adaptive learningEducation technology company Knewton has created adaptive learning software that customizes lessons and textbook material based on what the student knows, and needs to know to learn more quickly. Textbook publisher Pearson has partnered with Knewton and will be using its software to power its online reading, writing and math courses for incoming freshmen in remedial classes.
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Flex EMBA - Taking Distance Learning to New HeightsMIP Politecnico di Milano has developed with technology giant Microsoft, a flexible program, a unique learning platform and links to some of the biggest firms in Europe. MIP’s online-based EMBA has interactivity – a quality that is missing in traditional distance learning. The program developed with the help of Microsoft is a unique platform that will allow students to participate in live discussion, moderated by MIP professors, instead of viewing pre-recorded lectures.
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MOOCs to teach educators about deeper learningTwo new MOOCs to be lanuched in January 2014 show how teaching can be reinvented and reimagined to ensure deeper learning. Hosted by San Diego's High Tech High school, one MOOC is designed for educators to learn about schools that are challenging the traditional model of education. The other leads participants through designing their own new school models.
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Online learning platform for architectsThe American Institute of Architects (AIA) along with Hanley Wood would deliver online education to AIA members that will support life-long learning. It would provide digital access to courses designed to provide Continuing Education (CEU) credits via a secure, online environment.
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High cost does not assure quality higher educationSir Michael Barber, a British educationist said that higher prices for a university degree cannot be seen as a guarantee that students are getting better quality education. At a conference held in London by The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education(OBHE) he said with the change in economy the nature of work, the skills required by employers and the skills necessary to find employment change. He said "This is making people think differently about their university education and universities need to think about changing what they offer."
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The Alphabus satellite could deliver Moocs to AfricaOriginally conceived as a means of bringing broadband, The Alphabus, Inmarsat satellite could soon be delivering MOOCs from the sky to remote areas in Africa. “It may well be that Central Africa offers big opportunities too. It will be up to Inmarsat to respond to the market, but I think MOOCs offer the possibilities of making this happen” said David Willetts, UK Universities and Science Minister at the conference organised by The Observatory on Borderless Higher Education(OBHE).
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Free online learning using library card keyA library in Massachusetts, U.S.A. is offering free classes through Learn4Life, an online education program offered by Connecticut-based Cengage Learning. The library promotes the free courses to library users and other local residents. The residents can take the courses on their home computers or user library computers. The library’s mission is to introduce users to lifelong learning opportunities.