Monthly Archives: May 2014
Megatrends in MOOCs: #10 The Changing Role of the Instructor
In this series so far, we’ve explored how massive open online courses (MOOCs) are changing the nature of learning. We’ve looked at how they...
Megatrends in MOOCs: #9 Flipping the MOOC
As digital learning environments, MOOCs are incredibly flexible—they can be used for fully online courses, in hybrid courses, as supplementary materials, and more. One...
Megatrends in MOOCs: #8 Mobile Learning
For the past few years, mobile learning has been the “next big thing,” but no more. As Rob Caul wrote recently for TrainingZone, “With...
Megatrends in MOOCs: #7 Gamification
Last year, gamification was a crazy buzzword indicating a trend that many predicted would be either the savior or the destroyer of education and...