Content written by Chengyi Lin and published by Global Focus, The EFMD Business Magazine. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: In 2018, total registered learners in the top MOOC platforms passed the 100 million mark. The total number of online courses was over 11,400. Roughly 18.2% of the courses are business related, a number that closely follows the 20.4% on technology. … [Read more...]
Digital Augmented Education – Are you ready to experiment?
Content written by Chengyi Lin and published by Global Focus, The EFMD Business Magazine. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Chengyi Lin looks back on the so far somewhat chequered history of technology in management education but is sanguine about its future. Click Here to Read More Via Original Source … [Read more...]
Moocs struggle to lift rock-bottom completion rates
Content written Seb Murray and published by Financial Times. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Much of the early enthusiasm for massive open online courses, or Moocs, focused on how they could disrupt and democratise education — opening elite universities’ courses to the masses. They have long faced one stumbling block, however: barely anyone who starts a Mooc completes … [Read more...]
Do Free Business-School Courses Have a Payoff?
Content written by Kelsey Gee and published by the Wall Street Journal. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: An explosion of online business courses is prompting some students to ask: What’s the ROI for free classes? Schools like the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Business have attracted thousands of … [Read more...]
Big Data, Virtual Reality & Five Online Learning Trends To Look Out For
Content written by Marco De Novellis and published by BusinessBecause. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: The days of whiteboards and ink cartridges are over. Developments in educational technology – or edtech – are revolutionizing the business school experience. Virtual Reality (VR) headsets are in classrooms. Big data-crunching devices give students live feedback on their … [Read more...]
Could Mooc Platforms Disrupt Executive Education?
Content written by Seb Murray and published by BusinessBecause. MBA News Digest Comment: None. Extracted Content: Online learning platform Coursera has partnered AXA, the insurer, to provide skills training for its employees in the latest sign that digital disruptors are muscling into the lucrative market for executive education. Business schools earn most of their corn from executive … [Read more...]