Online Learning Update

April 21, 2013

California Expands Successful Use Of MOOCs in Online Learning and Blended experiment

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:01 am

by Michael Fitzgerald, Information Week

California will expand its experiment in blended online and real-world classes after a successful pilot between San Jose State University (SJSU) and edX, the Harvard/MIT-led consortium for online classes. Blended classes bring massive open online courses, or MOOCs, to physical classrooms. San Jose State piloted an introductory engineering class where students watched an edX class on circuits and electronics, MITx 6.002x, and came to physical classes to work on course-related activities such as quizzes and collaborative work. Students who passed received full credit and did not pay extra for the blended course. The course saw much higher pass rates than traditional courses at SJSU in the same subject.

http://www.informationweek.com/education/online-learning/california-expands-use-of-moocs/240152703

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