San Jose State U. Adopts More edX Content for Outsourcing Trial

Wired Campus 2014-01-30

Summary:

San Jose State University’s experiment with online video lectures featuring professors at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology—by way of edX, the nonprofit provider of massive open online courses—produced some promising early results. In the fall of 2012, students in two traditional sections of an introductory electrical-engineering course earned passing grades at rates of 57 percent and 74 percent, respectively. In an experimental third section, which was “flipped” to incorporate t...

Link:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/san-jose-state-u-adopts-more-edx-content-for-outsourcing-trial/49905

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#edutech » Wired Campus

Tags:

distance education moocs online courses

Authors:

Steve Kolowich

Date tagged:

01/30/2014, 06:30

Date published:

01/30/2014, 04:55