The Coursera Community, a New Discussion Forum
Disclosure: Class Central is learner-supported. When you buy through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. February 17, 2019 2 minute read Comments Until now, discussion forums have been limited to within single courses. When the course finished, connections would often be lost. Now, Coursera has come up with a platform-wide discussion board…
What’s On the Agenda at the 2019 Open edX Conference
Disclosure: To support our site, Class Central may be compensated by some course providers. February 7, 2019 2 minute read Comments The annual Open edX Conference is taking place next month in San Diego, and the conference agenda is now available. Open edX is the open source software that powers some of the largest MOOC…
Google opens an intense learning program on Udacity
Google recently declared that it’s launching an intense learning program to particularly initiate online course provider Udacity (MOOC). Intense learning is a progressively more admired category of AI (artificial intelligence). Speaking, in general, it entails guiding artificial neural systems on heaps of data — for instance images — and acquiring them to create inferences regarding…
Edraak, MOOC Platform for the Arabic-Speaking World, Crosses 2M Users
Disclosure: To support our site, Class Central may be compensated by some course providers. February 5, 2019 1 minute read Comments Edraak, the MOOC platform for the Arabic-speaking world, now has over 2 million users and more than 4 million course enrollments. Launched in 2014 by the Queen Rania Foundation, the platform has grown from…
Udacity Restructuring Leads to Massive Layoffs
Disclosure: To support our site, Class Central may be compensated by some course providers. November 29, 2018 1 minute read Comments In my review of Udacity’s 2017, I noted that the company went truly global and was launching a number of region-specific initiatives. However, based on recent events, it seems as if Udacity is scaling…
Udacity Increases Prices for Nanodegrees
Disclosure: To support our site, Class Central may be compensated by some course providers. November 20, 2018 1 minute read Comments Udacity is known to constantly tweak its model for Nanodegrees. Earlier this year Class Central wrote about how Udacity is switching to term-based scheduling. Last year we reported on Udacity shutting down its job…
Human Learning #42 – Augmentation rather than change for the MOOC platforms
Disclosure: To support our site, Class Central may be compensated by some course providers. November 19, 2018 4 minute read Comments This fortnight’s edition focuses on the main MOOC providers. All have augmented their strategy rather than exacted any pivots. That’s a tad less interesting but as I allude in this week’s essay, these are…
Human Learning #41 – Of Language, Chatbots and Ethics
Disclosure: To support our site, Class Central may be compensated by some course providers. November 14, 2018 5 minute read Comments Welcome to issue #41, the two thrusts of which drill down on the tech of Edtech. The first part is my article on Duolingo, which argues MOOC platforms will find it difficult in some…
MOOCWatch 19: Coursera’s Revenue, Udacity’s CEO, and edX’s Master’s Degrees.
The MOOC-based degrees trend continues, with edX announcing 7 new Master’s degrees, bringing the total on edX to 9. In a recent article, I explore five key ways MOOC-based degrees differ from traditional online degrees. Class Central contributor Manoel, who has done his entire higher education online, shares his thoughts on 10 characteristics that could…
Udacity Sunsets its Mobile Apps
Disclosure: To support our site, Class Central may be compensated by some course providers. January 13, 2019 3 minute read Comments Last week we wrote about how 2019 brought the closure of a free course provider with little notice. Now, Udacity has done something similar and pulled its mobile apps from the iOS and Android…
