The Chronicle of Higher Education blog “Wired Campus” is one of the top Educational Technology forums in the world. Jeffrey Young lists ten top Wired Campus stories of 2012.
Coursera and Udacity now claim more than two million students in MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses).
by Jeffrey R. Young
Articles about how free online courses, or MOOCs, could disrupt higher education dominated the headlines last year here at the Wired Campus blog, and they were the most popular with readers as well. Several articles about e-textbooks also topped our list of most-read articles of 2012, highlighting what has been a time of change, and anxiety, for colleges and universities.
Coursera and Udacity appear most frequently in this year’s top headlines. Both offer MOOCs, or massive open online courses, and both were founded by Stanford University computer-science professors who are now on leave. Together, they now claim more than two million students, though some of those sign up but never complete work in the courses.
10 Hottest Ed-Tech Stories of 2012
1. Stanford Professor Gives Up Teaching Position, Hopes to Reach 500,000 Students at Online Start-Up
2. Could Many Universities Follow Borders Bookstores Into Oblivion?
3. Minnesota Gives Coursera the Boot, Citing a Decades-Old Law
4. Khan Academy Founder Proposes a New Type of College
5. Elsevier Publishing Boycott Gathers Steam Among Academics
6. Coursera Announces Big Expansion, Adding 17 Universities
7. 3 Major Publishers Sue Open-Education Textbook Start-Up
8. Students Find E-Textbooks ‘Clumsy’ and Don’t Use Their Interactive Features
9. Now E-Textbooks Can Report Back on Students’ Reading Habits
10. Udacity Cancels Free Online Math Course, Citing Low Quality
[Image: A tag cloud of the above headlines, made with Wordle.net.]
