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8 Things You Should Know About MOOCs

What we’ve learned from edX's 1st data release covering more than 500K students.

8 Things You Should Know About MOOCs, Jonah Newman & Soo Oh, The Chronicle

MITx & HarvardX Release De-ID'd Dataset from Yr 1 of MOOCs

Here's some background on what is in the dataset, and what we did with it. 

MITx & HarvardX Release De-Identified Dataset from 1st Yr, Justin Reich, EW

Business School, Disrupted

Should Harvard Business School enter the business of online ed, and, if so, how?

Business School, Disrupted, Jerry Useem, New York Times

Who Won the Minerva Prize?

The first person to make famous the phrase “Discuss amongst yourselves” is ...

Who Won the Minerva Prize? Ava Arsaga, EdBizWatch

Harvard Goes All In for Online Courses

HarvardX has 2 video studios, 30+ employees & many freelancers -- producers, editors, videographers, composers, animators, typographers, & a performance coach.

Harvard Goes All in for Online Courses, Marcella Bombardieri, Boston Globe

MOOC Learners: Who They Are, What Motivates Them

Despite student diversity, 3 attributes unite them: A desire to learn, a desire to connect to a global community and a desire to experience and consume content online.

MOOC Learners: Who They Are, What Motivates Them, Anant Agarwal, Huffington Post

Can Facebook’s MOOCs Improve Ed For Developing Nations?

Facebook and partner, edX, haven't decided exactly how the project will play out in Rwanda.

Can Facebook’s MOOCs Improve Education For Developing Nations? Greg Ferenstein, TC

edX Partners with Facebook to Bring Online Ed to the Unconnected World

The pilot initiative, named SocialEDU, was revealed Mon at the Mobile World Congress.

edX Partners with Facebook -Bring Online Ed to Unconnected World, L. Landry, BostInno

Harvard & MIT Release Visualization Tools for MOOC Data

The tools “showcase the potential promise” of data generated by MOOCs.

Harvard & MIT Release Visualization Tools for Trove of MOOC Data, L. Biemiller, The Chronicle 

Online Ed Has a Loneliness Problem. Can Harvard Fix It?

Project Lever, a sort of eharmony for building businesses, will be integrated into the edX platform for an upcoming course.

Online Education Has a Loneliness Problem. Can Harvard Fix It? Amy Choi, Business Week

Harvard Reports Examine K-12 Student Privacy

3 reports touch on aspects of cloud computing & mobile device usage in K-12.

Harvard Reports Examine K-12 Student Privacy, Dian Schaffhauser, The Journal

How Students Engage with MOOCs (Rpts from MIT, Harvard)

Surprising insights as researchers sift through the data exhaust of X's 2012-13 courses.

How Students Engage with MOOCs (Reports from edX, HarvardX), MIT News

Online Education as an Agent of Transformation

We predict the bottom 25% of every university tier will disappear or merge in 10-15 yrs.

Innovation Imperative: Change Everything, Clayton Christensen, Michael Horn, NYT

Bill Gates: MOOCs Could Benefit Community Colleges

"...this is a period of experimentation, but we'll learn faster if people jump in & engage."

Harvard Aims for Record $6.5 Billion in Fundraising by 2018

45% to research & faculty; 25% to student aid; 20% to construction; 10% to initiatives.

Harvard Aims for Record $6.5 Billion in Fundraising by 2018, John Lauerman, Bloomberg

Harvard Faculty Request Faculty Oversight of HarvardX

58 faculty members from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences sign open letter to the dean.

Harvard Faculty Request Faculty Oversight of HarvardX, Phil Hill, eLiterate

Who is Roland Fryer?

A Harvard economist and MacArthur genius--he wants to find ways to test any education hypothesis quickly, until we find what works.  This guy is interesting.

Roland Fryer's Experiments for Children, EdSurge, Fast CoExist