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You have probably heard that completion rates are one of the bigger problems of MOOCs. According to a study made by HarvardX and MITx, in the first four years of the edX MOOC platform there were 4.5 million participants and 245 thousand obtained a certificate. That’s a total of only 5.5% students who actually got a credential for the online courses they took. This data could deceive you from what MOOCs are supposed to do. We need to start questioning, as some people have already suggested in the past, if course completion is the right way of measuring the...

In the International Conference MOOC-Maker we had the opportunity to talk with Dana Doyle, who does a tremendous work as the Director of the MITx program, by supporting faculties from this institution to create MOOCs. We all have access to a wide offer of MOOCs and we’ve seen how we can benefit from them, however, we’ve discussed very little about the all the work that is required to create an online course. So, What are the skills that a faculty needs to create MOOCs? Doyle explains that MITx supports and trains faculty members for the creation of MOOCs, they...

Artificial Intelligence is a trending subject when it comes to tech innovation, which is often associated with robotics or advanced tech development. Mobile devices weren’t too related to this topic in the past, however it is until now that mobiles´ companies are starting to talk about the future of AI on smartphones and tablets. Photo Credit: Flickr In 2014, Google acquired DeepMind, a british Artificial Intelligence company that created neuronal networks able to learn how to play a video game or recreate human short-term memory. Google bought DeepMind for Artificial Intelligence research purposes, however this may focus its work...