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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

It’s all very well for Apple-owning, organic-buying professionals to cast aspersions, but consider the girl in Pakistan who’s too scared to set foot in a classroom. Universities will flip their classrooms. Content providers will wag the long tail. No more lazy professors, no more specious journal articles.

OER 279
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The future of MOOCs

E-Learning Provocateur

It’s all very well for Apple-owning, organic-buying professionals to cast aspersions, but consider the girl in Pakistan who’s too scared to set foot in a classroom. Universities will flip their classrooms. Content providers will wag the long tail. No more lazy professors, no more specious journal articles.

OER 224
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Listen: Discover Financial Services’ Jon Kaplan on tuition assistance programs and the importance of building trust among your learning team

CLO Magazine

It was a one-room school house in Alameda, California, 150 seven through twelfth grade learners, no classrooms. There’s a long tail and figuring out what the business outcomes of a leader who went through a leadership development class, I mean, that’s really difficult. I’d love you to run it.”

Kaplan 48
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Ep9: Up-skilling your workforce to future-proof your organization

Elucidat

You’ve gone from teaching a class—you’re passionate about teaching and the effect that learning can have, and then you’ve gone into an organization where you’re going from a classroom to 17,000-ish plus people. I think in a classroom, you think of yourself as a facilitator of learning. Jon: [ 4:06 ] That’s an interesting question.

Kaplan 40