Episode 19: Dr. Andrew Ho on the Reach of MOOCs

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So we have literally all of humanity’s knowledge at our fingertips thanks to the Internet, and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) are making it easier to get more education to more people for free. Dr. Andrew Ho has done research on MOOCs and their impact and assessing the knowledge obtained in a MOOC such that any credential you receive after passing a class matters in the marketplace.

What are these and where did MOOC’s come from? Will they replace college as a physical destination? Are they making the world smarter and knocking down socioeconomic boundaries to accessing education?

Read more here:

HarvardX and MITx Report on 4 Years of Open Online Courses (January 2017): https://harvardx.harvard.edu/blog/harvardx-and-mitx-report-4-years-open-online-courses

“The Power of MOOCs” (April 2015) https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/15/04/power-moocs

“The Great Education Equalizer?” (December 2015) https://www.gse.harvard.edu/news/uk/15/12/great-education-equalizer

“Students who are the least well prepared for traditional college also fare the worst in online courses” https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/06/12/study-questions-effectiveness-online-education-risk-students

The Gartner Hype Cycle: http://www.gartner.com/technology/research/methodologies/hype-cycle.jsp

Impact of a college education on the 2016 presidential election: http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/education-not-income-predicted-who-would-vote-for-trump/

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