Daily Randomly Sporto 04/19/2013

• New MOOC Provider Says It Fosters Peer Interaction - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: MOOCs interaction interactive peer DETC630

• Student Persistence in Online Courses: Understanding the Key Factors | Faculty Focus

  tags: persistence online learning student success Facultyfocus OMDE608

• Coursera Takes a Nuanced View of MOOC Dropout Rates - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: moocs Coursera dropout

• Competency-Based Education Advances With U.S. Approval of Program - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: competency-based learning competencies higher education Wired Campus education-department OMDE670

• Online-Learning Portal Allows Educators to Create Adaptive Content - Wired Campus - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: portal adaptive Wired Campus adaptive learning higher education chronicle DETC630

• Buying Book Chapters like Music Tracks, and What’s Wrong with Traditional Peer Review Anyway? A Conversation with Duke University Press, Part Two. - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: book music tracks duke interview chronicle peer peer review higher education

• Creating an Environment That Helps Adult Students Succeed - Head Count - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: student success student support student readiness readiness success higher education chronicle

• 101 Recommended Educational Web Tools | Edudemic

  tags: edtech web2.0 tools edudemic social media DETC630 webtools

• The Past, Present, And Future Of MOOCs | Edudemic

  tags: MOOC MOOCs edudemic

• Former Education Secretary Seeks to Simplify States' Distance-Education Rules - Government - The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: chronicle government regulation policy rules higher education distance education DEPM604 DEPM625

• Seven Problems of Online Group Learning (and Their Solutions)

  tags: groups problems online learning instructional design OMDE610

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