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52-664: After the closure of Umar Pulavar Tamil High School in 1982, St George’s Road Tamil Language Centre was renamed as Umar Pulavar Tamil Language Centre in 1983 to preserve the name of the high school. The centre offers the Tamil language elective programme under the National Elective Tamil Programme by the Ministry of Education . 1°18′51″N 103°51′33″E  /  1.3142°N 103.8593°E  / 1.3142; 103.8593 This Singaporean organisation article

104-550: A "stampede". Dozens of universities in Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia have announced partnerships with the large American MOOC providers. By early 2013, questions emerged about whether academia was "MOOC'd out". This trend was later confirmed in continuing analysis. The industry has an unusual structure, consisting of linked groups including MOOC providers, the larger non-profit sector, universities, related companies and venture capitalists . The Chronicle of Higher Education lists

156-625: A 40% completion rate. Physiopedia is the first provider of physiotherapy/physical therapy MOOCs, accessible to participants worldwide. In March 2013, Coursolve piloted a crowdsourced business strategy course for 100 organizations with the University of Virginia. A data science MOOC began in May 2013. In May 2013, Coursera announced free e-books for some courses in partnership with Chegg , an online textbook-rental company. Students would use Chegg's e-reader , which limits copying and printing and could use

208-569: A BSc and MSc program in Computer Science at the University of Helsinki. At a meeting on E-Learning and MOOCs, Jaakko Kurhila, Head of studies for University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science, claimed that to date, there have been over 8000 participants in their MOOCs altogether. On 18 June 2012, Ali Lemus from Galileo University launched the first Latin American MOOC titled "Desarrollando Aplicaciones para iPhone y iPad" This MOOC

260-659: A MOOC, with students from Duke running the online discussions. In the UK of summer 2013, Physiopedia ran their first MOOC regarding Professional Ethics in collaboration with University of the Western Cape in South Africa. This was followed by a second course in 2014, Physiotherapy Management of Spinal Cord Injuries, which was accredited by the World Confederation of Physical Therapy and attracted approximately 4000 participants with

312-718: A broad array of policy instruments targeting a wider range of beneficiaries over a longer-term horizon – schooling years, early career, mid-career or silver years – with a variety of resources available to help them attain mastery of skills. Every Singapore citizen from the age of 25 is given S$ 500 (approximately $ 370) by the Singapore government for the SkillsFuture Credit to invest in their personal learning. This sum can be used for continuing education courses in local tertiary institutions, as well as short courses provided by MOOC providers such as Udemy , Coursera , and edX . By

364-635: A certificate, i.e. audit mode. For certification the platform charges approximately ₹1,000 (approximately US$ 12). A course billed as "Asia's first MOOC" given by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology through Coursera starting in April 2013 registered 17,000 students. About 60% were from "rich countries" with many of the rest from middle-income countries in Asia, South Africa, Brazil or Mexico. Fewer students enrolled from areas with more limited access to

416-633: A completion rate of (39%), the course was recognized in the journal Nature . Startup Veduca launched the first MOOCs in Brazil, in partnership with the University of São Paulo in June 2013. The first two courses were Basic Physics, taught by Vanderlei Salvador Bagnato, and Probability and Statistics, taught by Melvin Cymbalista and André Leme Fleury. In the first two weeks following the launch at Polytechnic School of

468-635: A connectivist philosophy, and those that resemble more traditional courses. To distinguish the two, several early adopters of the platform proposed the terms "cMOOC" and "xMOOC". cMOOCs are based on principles from connectivist pedagogy indicating that material should be aggregated (rather than pre-selected), remixable , re-purposable , and feeding forward (i.e. evolving materials should be targeted at future learning). cMOOC instructional design approaches attempt to connect learners to each other to answer questions or collaborate on joint projects. This may include emphasizing collaborative development of

520-512: A fully accredited Master's degree. This program was controversial because the companies paid double the normal tuition paid by full-time students. The 2000s saw changes in online, or e-learning and distance education, with increasing online presence, open learning opportunities, and the development of MOOCs. By 2010 audiences for the most popular college courses such as "Justice" with Michael J. Sandel and "Human Anatomy" with Marian Diamond were reaching millions. The first MOOCs emerged from

572-610: A new statutory board under the Ministry of Education (MOE), SkillsFuture Singapore (SSG), was formed to drive and coordinate the implementation of SkillsFuture. It took over some of the functions currently performed by the Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) and absorbed the Committee for Private Education (CPE). Civil servants employed by the Ministry of Education are organised into several Unions, including

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624-665: A number of other innovative courses have emerged. As of May 2014, more than 900 MOOCs are offered by US universities and colleges. As of February 2013, dozens of universities had affiliated with MOOCs, including many international institutions. In addition, some organisations operate their own MOOCs – including Google's Power Search. A range of courses have emerged; "There was a real question of whether this would work for humanities and social science", said Ng. However, psychology and philosophy courses are among Coursera's most popular. Student feedback and completion rates suggest that they are as successful as math and science courses even though

676-452: A presentation at SXSWedu in early 2013, Instructure CEO Josh Coates suggested that MOOCs are in the midst of a hype cycle, with expectations undergoing wild swings. Dennis Yang, President of MOOC provider Udemy, later made the point in an article for The Huffington Post . Many universities scrambled to join in the "next big thing", as did more established online education service providers such as Blackboard Inc , in what has been called

728-585: A storyline and plot to help Leila, a lost humanoid wandering different worlds, in which a learner had to play mini games to advance through the course. The Pacific Open Learning Health Net , set up by the WHO in 2003, developed an online learning platform in 2004–05 for continuing development of health professionals. Courses were originally delivered by Moodle, but were looking more like other MOOCs by 2012. By June 2012, more than 1.5 million people had registered for classes through Coursera, Udacity or edX. As of 2013,

780-480: A strong analytical and problem-solving background. Not all of them get into IITs or the top institutions. What happens to those guys?..". With the aim of providing high-quality lectures with Indian faculty, to complement the mostly European and USAmerican offerings these courses were offered. Today most of them combine video lectures, online and in person exams and certification. The offering is currently approximately 3,000 courses. The courses are free if one does not want

832-568: A widely researched development in distance education , first introduced in 2008, that emerged as a popular mode of learning in 2012, a year called the "Year of the MOOC". Early MOOCs (cMOOCs: Connectivist MOOCs) often emphasized open-access features, such as open licensing of content, structure and learning goals, to promote the reuse and remixing of resources. Some later MOOCs (xMOOCs: extended MOOCs) use closed licenses for their course materials while maintaining free access for students. Before

884-881: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Ministry of Education (Singapore) The Ministry of Education ( MOE ; Malay : Kementerian Pendidikan ; Chinese : 教育部 ; Tamil : கல்வி அமைச்சு ) is a ministry of the Government of Singapore responsible for the formulation and implementation of policies related to the education in Singapore . The ministry currently oversees 10 statutory boards which includes 5 polytechnics and 2 institutes: SkillsFuture Singapore, Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board , ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute , Institute of Technical Education , Singapore Polytechnic , Ngee Ann Polytechnic , Temasek Polytechnic , Nanyang Polytechnic , Republic Polytechnic and Science Centre, Singapore . In 2016,

936-665: Is a Spanish remix of Stanford University's popular "CS 193P iPhone Application Development" and had 5,380 students enrolled. The technology used to host the MOOC was the Galileo Educational System platform (GES) which is based on the .LRN project. "Gender Through Comic Books" was a course taught by Ball State University 's Christina Blanch on Instructure's Canvas Network, a MOOC platform launched in November 2012. The course used examples from comic books to teach academic concepts about gender and perceptions. In November 2012,

988-488: Is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the Web . In addition to traditional course materials, such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets , many MOOCs provide interactive courses with user forums or social media discussions to support community interactions among students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs), as well as immediate feedback to quick quizzes and assignments. MOOCs are

1040-548: The Digital Age , distance learning appeared in the form of correspondence courses in the 1890s–1920s and later radio and television broadcast of courses and early forms of e-learning . Typically fewer than five percent of the students would complete a course. For example the Stanford Honors Cooperative Program, established in 1954, eventually offered video classes on-site at companies, at night, leading to

1092-635: The Singapore Teachers' Union , Singapore Chinese Teachers' Union, Singapore Malay Teachers' Union and Singapore Tamil Teachers' Union for Education Officers; and the Amalgamated Union of Public Employees for the non-Education Officers. All these unions are affiliates of the National Trades Union Congress . The Government of Singapore invests heavily in education to equip citizens with the necessary knowledge and skills to compete in

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1144-516: The University of Miami launched its first high school MOOC as part of Global Academy, its online high school. The course became available for high school students preparing for the SAT Subject Test in biology. During the Spring 2013 semester, Cathy Davidson and Dan Ariely taught the "Surprise Endings: Social Science and Literature" a SPOC course taught in-person at Duke University and also as

1196-476: The University of Texas at Austin , the University of California at Berkeley , and San Jose State University . Related companies investing in MOOCs include Google and educational publisher Pearson PLC . Venture capitalists include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , New Enterprise Associates and Andreessen Horowitz . In the fall of 2011, Stanford University launched three courses. The first of those courses

1248-499: The open educational resources (OER) movement, which was sparked by MIT OpenCourseWare project. The OER movement was motivated from work by researchers who pointed out that class size and learning outcomes had no established connection. Here, Daniel Barwick 's work is the most often-cited example. Within the OER movement, the Wikiversity was founded in 2006 and the first open course on

1300-552: The British Council's Understanding IELTS: Techniques for English Language Tests has an enrollment of over 440,000 students. Early cMOOCs such as CCK08 and ds106 used innovative pedagogy ( Connectivism ), with distributed learning materials rather than a video-lecture format, and a focus on education and learning, and digital storytelling respectively Following the 2011 launch of three Stanford xMOOCs, including Introduction Into AI , launched by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig

1352-656: The MOOC. Andrew Ravenscroft of the London Metropolitan University claimed that connectivist MOOCs better support collaborative dialogue and knowledge building. xMOOCs have a much more traditional course structure. They are characterized by a specified aim of completing the course obtaining certain knowledge certification of the subject matter. They are presented typically with a clearly specified syllabus of recorded lectures and self-test problems. However, some providers require paid subscriptions for acquiring graded materials and certificates. They employ elements of

1404-546: The Ministry returned to being headed by one minister. The Ministry is headed by the Minister for Education , who is appointed as part of the Cabinet of Singapore . The incumbent minister is MP for Tanjong Pagar GRC Chan Chun Sing from the People's Action Party . Massive open online course A massive open online course ( MOOC / m uː k / ) or an open online course

1456-512: The Open edX platform. Before 2013, each MOOC tended to develop its own delivery platform. EdX in April 2013 joined with Stanford University, which previously had its own platform called Class2Go, to work on XBlock SDK, a joint open-source platform. It is available to the public under the AGPL open source license, which requires that all improvements to the platform be publicly posted and made available under

1508-653: The UK based MOOC platform, FutureLearn. On 16 March 2015, the University of Cape Town launched its first MOOC, Medicine and the Arts on the UK-led platform, Futurelearn . In July 2015, OpenClassrooms, jointly with IESA Multimedia, launched the first MOOC-based bachelor's degree in multimedia project management recognized by a French state. In January 2018, Brown University opened its first "game-ified" course on EdX . Titled Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature by Professor James Egan. It featured

1560-642: The University of São Paulo , more than 10,000 students enrolled. Startup Wedubox (finalist at MassChallenge 2013) launched the first MOOC in finance and third MOOC in Latam, the MOOC was created by Jorge Borrero (MBA Universidad de la Sabana) with the title "WACC and the cost of capital" it reached 2.500 students in Dec 2013 only 2 months after the launch. In January 2014, Georgia Institute of Technology partnered with Udacity and AT&T to launch their Online Master of Science in Computer Science (OMSCS). Priced at $ 7,000, OMSCS

1612-471: The book only while enrolled in the class. In June 2013, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill launched Skynet University, which offers MOOCs on introductory astronomy. Participants gain access to the university's global network of robotic telescopes , including those in the Chilean Andes and Australia. In July 2013 the University of Tasmania launched Understanding Dementia . The course had

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1664-506: The broad base of private companies, and strengthen collaboration between training institutions, unions, trade associations, and employers to develop the skills of the Singaporean workforce. In terms of funding, according to the Singaporean government budget report, a provision of $ 220 million has been made for SSG in the fiscal year 2018 to implement plans, policies and strategies to support skills development programs under SkillsFuture. With

1716-577: The company announced the first entirely MOOC-based master's degree, a collaboration between Udacity, AT&T and the Georgia Institute of Technology , costing $ 7,000, a fraction of its normal tuition. Concerned about the commercialization of online education, in 2012 MIT created the not-for-profit MITx. The inaugural course, 6.002x, launched in March 2012. Harvard joined the group, renamed edX, that spring, and University of California, Berkeley joined in

1768-408: The corresponding completion rates are lower. In January 2012, University of Helsinki launched a Finnish MOOC in programming. The MOOC is used as a way to offer high-schools the opportunity to provide programming courses for their students, even if no local premises or faculty that can organize such courses exist. The course has been offered recurringly, and the top-performing students are admitted to

1820-677: The course, but took few quizzes or exams; completers, who viewed most lectures and took part in most assessments; disengaged learners, who quickly dropped the course; and sampling learners, who might only occasionally watch lectures. They identified the following percentages in each group: Jonathan Haber focused on questions of what students are learning and student demographics. About half the students taking US courses are from other countries and do not speak English as their first language. He found some courses to be meaningful, especially about reading comprehension. Video lectures followed by multiple choice questions can be challenging since they are often

1872-558: The current xMOOCs, which he believes "resemble television shows or digital textbooks". Other cMOOCs were then developed; for example, Jim Groom from The University of Mary Washington and Michael Branson Smith of York College, City University of New York hosted MOOCs through several universities starting with 2011's 'Digital Storytelling' (ds106) MOOC. MOOCs from private, non-profit institutions emphasized prominent faculty members and expanded existing distance learning offerings (e.g., podcasts) into free and open online courses. Alongside

1924-444: The development of these open courses, other E-learning platforms emerged – such as Khan Academy , Peer-to-Peer University (P2PU), Udemy , and Alison – which are viewed as similar to MOOCs and work outside the university system or emphasize individual self-paced lessons. As MOOCs developed with time, multiple conceptions of the platform seem to have emerged. Mostly two different types can be differentiated: those that emphasize

1976-563: The end of 2017, the SkillsFuture Credit has been utilised by over 285,000 Singaporeans. There were more than 18,000 SkillsFuture credit-approved courses available at that time. As of 2016, there were also a total of 40 Earn and Learn Programmes. SkillsFuture has established a multi-level training system with dozens of initiatives and programs targeting the different skill-training needs of different social groups, such as students and employees in different career stages. Moreover, SkillsFuture also invests in forms of industry collaboration to uplift

2028-445: The expanding scope of education in Singapore and the implementation of SkillsFuture in 2016, the Ministry was led by two ministers; Minister for Education (Schools), who oversees the pre-school, primary , secondary , and junior college education; and Minister for Education (Higher Education and Skills), who oversees the ITE , polytechnic , university and SkillsFuture education. In 2018,

2080-559: The first Asian MOOC under the aegis of the NPTEL National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning instituted by the Ministry of Human Resource Development ( MHRD , latterly called Ministry of Education) and the indian institutes of technology IIT . In the words of Prof. Thangaraj from IIT-Madras the prime mover of this initiative the motivation for these MOOCs was "...a huge number of people in India, students particularly, who have

2132-470: The global marketplace. Singapore currently spends around a fifth of its national budget on education. To boost its economic standing, the Government of Singapore created a mandate that most Singaporeans learn English. It is the language of governance and administration in Singapore and English is also the medium of instruction in most, if not all, schools in Singapore. As a result, the country rose from one of

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2184-697: The internet, and students from the People's Republic of China may have been discouraged by Chinese government policies. Koller stated in May 2013 that a majority of the people taking Coursera courses had already earned college degrees. According to a Stanford University study of a more general group of students "active learners" – anybody who participated beyond just registering – found that 64% of high school active learners were male and 88% were male for undergraduate- and graduate-level courses. A study from Stanford University's Learning Analytics group identified four types of students: auditors, who watched video throughout

2236-634: The major providers as the non-profits Khan Academy and edX, and the for-profits Udacity and Coursera. The larger non-profit organizations include the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , the MacArthur Foundation , the National Science Foundation , and the American Council on Education . University pioneers include Stanford , Harvard , MIT , the University of Pennsylvania , Caltech ,

2288-691: The most impoverished Asian countries to one with the strongest economies and highest standards of living. The SkillsFuture initiative was introduced in 2015 to support Singapore's next stage of economic advancement by providing lifelong learning and skills development opportunities for Singaporeans. SkillsFuture aims at unlocking the full potential of all Singaporeans, regardless of background and industry. The program contains several key initiatives, such as SkillsFuture Credit and SkillsFuture Earn and Learn. SkillsFuture caters to many stakeholders, with initiatives centred on students, adult learners, employers, and training providers. In general, SkillsFuture involves

2340-503: The original MOOC, but are, in some effect, branded IT platforms that offer content distribution partnerships to institutions. The instructor is the expert provider of knowledge, and student interactions are usually limited to asking for assistance and advising each other on difficult points. According to The New York Times , 2012 became "the year of the MOOC" as several well-financed providers, associated with top universities, emerged, including Coursera , Udacity , and edX . During

2392-479: The platform was organised in 2007. A ten-week course with more than 70 students was used to test the idea of making Wikiversity an open and free platform for education in the tradition of Scandinavian free adult education, Folk High School and the free school movement . The term MOOC was coined in 2008 by Dave Cormier of the University of Prince Edward Island in response to a course called Connectivism and Connective Knowledge (also known as CCK08 ). CCK08, which

2444-422: The range of students registered appears to be broad, diverse and non-traditional, but concentrated among English-speakers in rich countries. By March 2013, Coursera alone had registered about 2.8 million learners. By October 2013, Coursera enrollment continued to surge, surpassing 5 million, while edX had independently reached 1.3 million. In India 2003 was the first online course rolled out, making it potentially

2496-744: The same license. Stanford Vice Provost John Mitchell said that the goal was to provide the " Linux of online learning". This is unlike companies such as Coursera that have developed their own platform. By November 2013, edX offered 94 courses from 29 institutions around the world. During its first 13 months of operation (ending March 2013), Coursera offered about 325 courses, with 30% in the sciences, 28% in arts and humanities, 23% in information technology, 13% in business and 6% in mathematics. Udacity offered 26 courses. The number of courses offered has since increased dramatically: As of January 2016, edx offers 820 courses, Coursera offers 1580 courses and Udacity offers more than 120 courses. According to FutureLearn,

2548-602: The summer. The initiative then added the University of Texas System , Wellesley College and Georgetown University . In September 2013, edX announced a partnership with Google to develop MOOC.org, a site for non-xConsortium groups to build and host courses. Google will work on the core platform development with edX partners. In addition, Google and edX will collaborate on research into how students learn and how technology can transform learning and teaching. MOOC.org will adopt Google's infrastructure. The Chinese Tsinghua University MOOC platform XuetangX.com (launched Oct. 2013) uses

2600-526: Was Introduction Into AI , launched by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig . Enrollment quickly reached 160,000 students. The announcement was followed within weeks by the launch of two more MOOCs, by Andrew Ng and Jennifer Widom . Following the publicity and high enrollment numbers of these courses, Thrun started a company he named Udacity and Daphne Koller and Andrew Ng launched Coursera. In January 2013, Udacity launched its first MOOCs-for-credit, in collaboration with San Jose State University. In May 2013,

2652-757: Was led by George Siemens of Athabasca University and Stephen Downes of the National Research Council , consisted of 25 tuition-paying students in Extended Education at the University of Manitoba , as well as over 2200 online students from the general public who paid nothing. All course content was available through RSS feeds, and online students could participate through collaborative tools, including blog posts, threaded discussions in Moodle , and Second Life meetings. Stephen Downes considers these so-called cMOOCs to be more "creative and dynamic" than

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2704-484: Was the first MOOD (massive online open degree) (Master's degree) in computer science . In September 2014, the high street retailer, Marks & Spencer partnered up with University of Leeds to construct an MOOC business course "which will use case studies from the Company Archive alongside research from the University to show how innovation and people are key to business success. The course will be offered by

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