Can data help save MOOCs? Sean Cummings October 26, 2015 26 Comments Despite low completion rates, student isolation and imbalanced demographics, leaders in the field of online learning feel confident that the availability of user data will lead to significant... Read More »
MOOCs less successful than original hopes, researchers say Jeremy Quach October 16, 2015 0 Comments Stanford researchers have concluded that MOOCs (massive open online courses) haven’t quite been the revolutionary change in education for which they had hoped. Completion rates are low, and classes... Read More »
Stanford Lytics Lab promoted as part of Year of Learning initiative Isabela Bumanlag October 15, 2015 0 Comments Lytics Lab’s newly launched “Year of Learning,” is a year-long initiative to examine how learning has occurred at Stanford in the past, how it takes place now, and what it will look like in the... Read More »
Stanford researchers develop virtual discussion sections tool Skylar Cohen May 19, 2015 0 Comments Stanford researchers have developed a new tool called ‘Talkabout’ to enhance online learning through the formation of virtual discussion sections — allowing students from around the globe to... Read More »
Hennessy discusses learning and technology with Academic Council Emma Neiman May 3, 2015 0 Comments President Hennessy delivered his annual address to the Academic Council, the body of Stanford’s tenure-line and other senior faculty, on Thursday, April 30. Hennessy discussed the past academic year... Read More »
XPRIZE: Funding solutions for tech-enabled learning Kendrick Kho April 21, 2015 1 Comment "There's 60 million kids around the world who don't have physical access to teachers. Can we make technology and content that is so intuitive that children can teach themselves and each other?"... Read More »
Q&A with Dan Banik, professor of online international development course Qitong Cao March 3, 2015 0 Comments Dan Banik was a visiting associate professor at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford’s Freeman Spogli Institute from July 2013 through July 2014. He... Read More »
Rethinking the Stanford classroom Vihan Lakshman May 14, 2014 0 Comments Ultimately, I think flipped classrooms make a lot of sense in very specific contexts, but they remain very much a work in progress. The evidence from actual Stanford courses suggests courses are not... Read More »