Harper Lucas

CIED 1003

Summer First Semester

Dr. Orr

Using Mullins Library To find Articles

Part A

http://0-search.proquest.com.library.uark.edu/docview/1825869124?accountid=8361

A Comparative Analysis of MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) Platforms

Conache, Maria; Dima, Ramona; Mutu, Andreea.

Informatica Economica

5/14/2016

The authors studied massive open online classrooms (MOOC), which are venues in

which students from anywhere in the world can log on and learn, in an effort to determine what

features make them successful. The classes are taught by college professors through written

presentations as well as online lectures and videos. Courses are beneficial to both the institutions

providing the course and the students who enroll in that the students have access to a greater

variety of courses and the providers are not limited to the number of seats in a classroom and the

students are on their own in terms of completion of the course work. The MOOC study split the

education models into two groups those that followed George Siemens connectivism theory in

which students had free access to the course information . These included feeds and blogs and
those that were designed similarly to traditional classrooms using an online textbooks/video

lectures with quiz components.

The objective of the study was to determine what makes the most successful MOOC

platform. They studied four learning platforms : Udacity and Udemy focus on course regarding

job skills development. Coursera and EDX are university styled courses. The analysis was based

on three sets of criteria including business model, course design and how popular it was among

the online students. All of the online course providers offer paid courses as well as free. The

authors compared the courses based on 1. User criteria: student profiles, number of visitors and

2. How hard the platform worked to become more popular: time spent on site, mobile app

ratings, how many partners they had, how many courses were offered and how many foreign

languages courses were translated into.

The authors determined all four learning platforms are very popular. Universities

use Coursera, which offers the largest catalog of university online courses and EDX which

allows developers a venue for work sharing, more frequently. Individual instructors often

choose Udemy because it allow students and instructors to share work. Corporations tend to use

Udacity more often because it offers a significant number of vocational classes. MOOCs have

become one of the most significant trends in higher education

Part B

http://0-search.proquest.com.library.uark.edu/docview/1806101546?accountid=8361

Is China Stealing Jobs? It May Be Losing Them, Instead

Michael Schuman

New York Times (Online), New York: New York Times Company.

Jul 22, 2016.

 Michael Schuman discusses the indications that China is losing jobs to other countries,

including the United States due to stiffer foreign competition, rising costs and a slowing

domestic economy. He notes that the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign focused on the

supposition that China was continuing to steal jobs from American laborers and that President

Trump, in particular, argued that free trade with China was a colossal mistake. Schuman states

that Jim McGregor, chairman of consulting firm APCO Worldwides Greater China operations

poses that these are yesterdays problems. He notes that although from 1999 through 2011,

America did lose a least 2 million jobs due to Chinese imports, according to a Journal of Labor

Economics study, Chinas economy is slowing and it is becoming more difficult for China to

dominate the global market. Due to low unemployment, wages have risen in China, making it

less desirable for foreign manufacturers to send manufacturing work there. Many American

companies are opting to reshore. A survey by BCG showed that 24% were actively planning

to move production home as opposed to only 10% in 2012.

The American Chamber of Commerce in China surveyed numerous companies from

various countries and business sectors and found that 25% of those who responded had already

moved or were planning to due to rising costs. Countries such as India, Vietnam and other

developing Asian countries are the destination for almost half of those moving, while another

40% of respondents were moving to the U.S., Canada or Mexico. Some companies with a large

Chinese presence are targeting other countries with lower costs for future development.

Manufacturing, accounting for 20% of urban Chinese employment, has been the hardest hit

sector. There is some discrepancy between the Chinese government report of only 4%

unemployment and outside consultants who place it closer to 12.9%. Many industrial companies

are over built and in February Chinas human resource minister speculated that 1.8 million
workers could lose their jobs. Schuman concludes with Leland Millers statement, "If anyone is

claiming that China is still enjoying a healthy or robust jobs market they have no idea what

they're talking about."

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