Edraak is a MOOC Platform based in Jordan that was launched five years ago. It serves learners across the Middle East and North Africa. The focus is on subject fields like health, computer science, and leadership. It also works as an open resource for K-12 education in mathematics. Recently Edraak …
Introduction to Computer Science using Python is MITx most popular MOOC. Since the start in 2012, it has totally 1.2 million enrollments. John Guttag, the Dugald C. Jackson Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at MIT explains the success in the following way: “Although on the surface it’s a …
eLearningworld News from Australia Sydney University launches a MOOC this month with focus on bringing Music Education into the 21st Century. The main target group is music educators all over the world that want to develop their teaching with digital tools and motivate their students with the new possibilities. The …
eLearningworld News from the World According to ICEF Monitor 35 million people enrolled in MOOCs during 2015 in approximately 4200 courses offered by 500 universities. This means that the amount of learners doubled last year in comparison with the year before. The MOOC-providing companies were also more focused on revenue …
eLearningworld News from the World In the UN Summit in September 2015 political leaders from all over the world adopted a global 2030 development agenda. This includes new global goals, called the Sustainable Development Goals, where the main ambitious is to use the “billions” in Official Development Assistance to channel …
eLearningworld News from the World Technavio market analysts predict that gamification and massive open online courses (MOOCs) will drive the global e-Learning market the coming four years. This means the keywords for the market can be summarised by that engaging content with easy access is the focus eLearning-developers should have …
eLearningworld News from Norway In 2014 Østfold University College held the ICT course for teachers the first time. The course was called ”MOOC: Innføring i informasjons- og kommunikasjonsteknologi”. 717 participated, while 149 was registrered as students to earn credits for the course and 74% of these students managed to reach …
eLearningworld News from USA MIT and Harvard has researched the performance of their Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) from 2012 to 2014. Data from totally 68 courses, 1.7 million participants, 10 million participant-hours, and 1.1 billion logged events are the source of the report. Some of the key findings were …
eLearningworld News from the Netherlands We wrote about the Introduction to Dutch online-course from Groningen University almost two month ago and now it is (almost) finished. Totally 33 800 registered and 3000 completed the three week’s course, which is rather normal for a MOOC, and impressive for an introduction to …
eLearningworld News from UK British Library and Nottingham University has joined forces to develop a free online course on how propaganda and ideology fit in to everyday life. The course will combine the latest academic insights from experts at The University of Nottingham with the British Library’s political collections and …
