Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Chip Paucek, CEO and co-founder of 2U “When we think about the trajectory of a learner, from college to a masters program to a MOOC or to a bootcamp, there is a lot of opportunity for universities to play a role across that spectrum and reinvent themselves,” Paucek tells EdSurge in an interview. “If

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Self regulation of learning is thought to be a characteristic of individual students (Beishuizen, 2008) but increasingly can be contextualised within social learning environments. 2008) Does a community of learners foster self-regulated learning? 2008) Self-Regulated Learning in Communities. 2000) Informal Workplace Learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Indeed, while colleges and universities continue to struggle financially, the dark days of 2008 seem like a distant memory for most of them. One early version of this new kind of partnership was used to build and deliver Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) through alliances like Coursera and edX.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2017

Since the company started in 2008, it has stayed focused on that one idea, and on serving only highly-selective colleges in the U.S. And it’s not cheap (and certainly not free, like the original MOOCs). and only on graduate degree programs. The formula has reaped rewards: in 2014 2U became a rare edtech company to go public.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Vive la MOOC Révolution. In October of this year, Clarissa Shen, Udacity’s Chief Operating Officer, called MOOCs “ a failed product.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Since 2U started in 2008, it has fronted more than $1 billion to colleges and university partners. In exchange, the colleges give up a large portion of the revenue from those online programs for a set number of years.

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

We’ve seen this from other states during the first few years after the 2008 financial crisis. This has not generally been the case since 2008, but is a possible trend to watch. No sign of, say, expanding distance learning, or drawing on MOOCs. What a change over the past two generations.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? MOOCs are not particularly "open."

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

And as you surely know, TurnItIn became a huge business, bought and sold several times over by private equity firms since 2008: first by Warburg Pincus, then by GIC, and then, in 2014, by Insight Partners — the price tag for that sale: $754 million. TurnItIn was acquired by the media conglomerate Advance Publications last year for $1.75

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. Check out the list of global MOOC platforms curated by Class Central, but realize there are entirely different ecosystems of platforms that specialize in corporate training or adaptive learning. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples. Which is dumb. And anymore, they end being the punchline of edtech jokes, somehow.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Founded by two educators in 2008, Edmodo experienced a number of leadership changes this decade.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

” Here DeMillo changes tack from neuroscience (chapter 3) and returns to technology, but not very much to MOOCs. The focus now is technology for personalized learning, including data analytics. That’s not where the chapter begins. Just using a clicker for formative assessment makes a big difference (2023) (paging Derek Bruff !).

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. There’s some (sorta) MOOC-related news in the venture funding section below. Because MOOCs on an airplane proved to be such an effective mode of instruction.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

He has set up a number of alternative learning experiences, but most notably, his MOOC on digital storytelling, more commonly known as ds106, has had tremendous impact on what we now consider to be possible with global, networked learning. Listening to Jim Groom speak is a lot of fun.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 19, 2017

She obtained her PhD in Information Science from the University of North Texas in 2001 and taught in the Department of Library and Information Studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo from 2001-2008 before joining the SLIS in August 2008. She also held professional positions in public and special libraries.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

TurnItIn became a huge business, bought and sold several times over by private equity firms since 2008: first by Warburg Pincus, then by GIC, and then, in 2014, by Insight Partners — the price tag for that sale: $754 million. TurnItIn was acquired by the media conglomerate Advance Publications last year for $1.75

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). To borrow from Jello Biaffra, “MOOCs aren’t dead, they just deserve to die.” ” From Edsurge : “How Blockbuster MOOCs Could Shape the Future of Teaching.” ” There’s more MOOC-related news in the nanodegree section below.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”

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Bryan Alexander

JULY 29, 2015

Then the 2008 recession and the 2009 death of leading education defender senator Ted Kennedy drove many Democrats more deeply into the arms of education reform. There isn’t much talk of shifting face-to-face schools to online, and no mention of MOOCs. A bipartisan tendency grew. Note the key presence of Ted Kennedy with George W.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

The Department of Justice , 21 states, and the District of Columbia have reached a $864 million settlement with Moody’s Investors Service over the company’s role in faulty credit ratings that led to the financial crisis of 2008. Via the IEEE Spectrum : “How the Pioneers of the MOOC Got It Wrong.”

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

It supersedes her 2008 book chapter “ Why Youth (Heart) MySpace: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life ” in Youth, Identity, and Digital Media. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. danah boyd ‘s 2008 book chapter “ Why Youth (Heart) MySpace: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life ” in Youth, Identity, and Digital Media is a must-read in this area.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

I am not able to use in my day-job classes very much of the rhizomatic, community as curriculum techniques that I value so much in my online, connectivist MOOCs, but—and here is the point—I am still able to integrate concepts drawn from complexity theory into my otherwise standard classroom without getting into too much trouble with my institution.

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Wired Campus

OCTOBER 10, 2015

.” (Of course, it could also be argued that it wasn’t for-profit colleges or other early adopters that disrupted the status quo and made distance education more acceptable to the mainstream of higher education; it was elite institutions that embraced MOOCs.). Johnson, of the 2008 book Disrupting Class.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 17, 2016

Face-to-face instruction was the privilege of the 1%, while the middle class made do with distance learning, and everyone else had versions of MOOCs. When it came to technology, a tripartite division had opened up. Which felt like a quiet PS to the rest of the talk, and nothing like a conclusion. I did not offer a more ambitious conclusion.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2011

link] EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR ( Australia Series ) Mon 8 Aug 09:00PM New York / Tue 9 Aug 01:00AM GMT / Tue 9 Aug 11:00AM Sydney Coach Carole. We will hear from the MOOCers about their discoveries, their plans for participating in the MOOC and we will find out just what impact e-portfolio learning is having on them so far.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Iowa City Press-Citizen : “ Iowa families foregoing classroom for virtual school.” Acumen “senior innovation associate” writes about +Acumen in Edsurge : “The Flip Side of Abysmal MOOC Completion Rates ?

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways. Let me begin with a story.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

MOOCs are out. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Higher Ed Inflation Hits Highest Level Since 2008.” .” The Business of Job Training. Via NPR : “In Effort To Court Drivers, Lyft Offering Education Discounts.” ” It’s a partnership with Guild Education. More via Techcrunch. Bootcamps are in. Or something.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Edmodo was one of the early stars of the most recent resurgence in ed-tech startup founding and funding (circa 2008 onward, that is). The company has raised some $77.5

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Hack Education

JULY 22, 2016

.” From the Republican National Convention: TurnItIn was pleased , I’m sure, to be invoked many times following Melania Trump ’s convention speech, which plagiarized passages from Michelle Obama ’s 2008 speech. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). trashes U.S.

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Hack Education

JUNE 23, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Post and Courier : “ South Carolina ’s online charter schools: A $350 million investment with disappointing returns.” ” “Students’ Rising Expectations Pose Challenge to Online Programs ,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ XuetangX : A Look at China’s First and Biggest MOOC Platform.” . “Its value may be limited, but there is no better way to test whether students have read the material.” ” Talking to them, I guess, is not an option.

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