Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Over the last decade, workers with education beyond the bachelor’s degree have continued to be rewarded with higher wages –and employment in master’s-level occupations is projected to grow at the fastest rate of any level, 17 percent, between 2016 and 2026, according to U.S. Department of Labor forecasts. is now online or blended.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, we’d like to call out nine of our contributors in particular, who’ve written the most popular articles of 2016. Investors and Entrepreneurs—From the 'Innovate' Newsletter This year was a busy one for the edtech industry from the standpoint of our AT&T State of Edtech report, which delved into funding deals and product development.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Last week at Campus Technology 2016, higher-ed technologists joined forces with administrators, instructional designers, and faculty to explore another realm many consider “wizardry”—predicting the future. Technologists are known by many names, but to some, they are simply “wizards.” I don’t think that’s what’s going on here.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent. As 2016 comes to a close, we’d like to recognize a few students whose words have inspired our work at EdSurge as we aim to understand and honor the increasingly differentiated needs and aspirations of today’s learners. The Hechinger Report).

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

GSV Ventures launched in 2016 with a $97 million fund, and has since invested in 65 edtech companies. Its portfolio includes “unicorns” like Coursera, one of the original MOOCs that is reportedly exploring options to go public. Several past GSV investments have turned into a big payday.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In 2016, Credential Engine set out to tally all the badges , degrees, certificates, licenses and diplomas available to denote educational attainment. according to a new report published Wednesday. They’re still counting. So far, the Washington, D.C.-based based nonprofit has found 738,428 unique credentials in the U.S.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

At the time they were not alone in their efforts; Coursera, Udacity (both of which were also co-founded by Stanford professors) and edX had launched MOOC platforms a year earlier. Altogether, NovoEd boasts over 100 customers who have delivered roughly 6,000 courses, according to Miller, who joined the company as CEO in November 2016.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

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. In a 2016 article, ‘ Innovation in Higher Education: Can Colleges Really Change?’,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. And it has.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 7, 2016

The Horizon report has a monopoly on this for educaion, using a virtual round table of 'experts' to whittle down all the possibilities into one or two trends that they think will be prevalent in education in the next one year, 2-3 years and 4-5 years. MOOCs won't be the end. Photo by Mario Klingemann on Flickr 2016 and all that.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Working professionals have vastly different needs than those of the traditional student," said Nelson Baker, dean of professional education at Georgia Tech in an American Council of Education report last month, acknowledging that college leaders are uneasy over the inability of conventional higher ed to respond effectively to fierce market forces.

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Perry Hewitt

MARCH 25, 2016

Scott Brinker has released the 2016 marketing technology landscape diagram, mapping 3,874 solutions into six capability categories (shows above). A new Pew report explores U.S. But 80% of adults having “not much awareness” of MOOCs was higher than I might have imagined.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Let me share some materials here, along with reflections on the conference.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent. went straight to our podcast, which has had a fresh resurgence with the last year of higher education reporting through our newsletter, Next. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Try building a MOOC to meet that challenge—I’d love to read about it!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And then there were MOOCs , of course, and all those predictions and all those promises about the end of college as we know it: “MOOCs make education borderless, gender-blind, race-blind, class-blind and bank account-blind” and similar fables. Vive la MOOC Révolution. Adam Medros became edX’s president and COO.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

As MOOCs surged in popularity from 2012 to 2015, universities, nonprofits, schools and companies all jumped into the game of developing online courses, and giving them away—often at the promise of no cost—to the world. Today, few higher-ed institutions are able to sustain the ongoing costs associated with producing and running MOOCs.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Testing, Testing… Reuters continues its investigative reporting on standardized testing: “Chinese education giant helps its students game the SAT.” Online Education and the Once and Future MOOC. Class Central’s Dhawal Shah has a post on Edsurge with “ MOOCs by the Numbers in 2016.”

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

To our students, colleagues, community, and direct reports. September 19, 2016 3 More Critical Questions For the Innovative Educator February 12, 2017 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting February 27, 2017 #IMMOOC September 13, 2016 It is your thinking that creates solutions, not any technology. IMMOOC.

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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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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. That should extend into 2016.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

When we focus our attention on real-time, up-to-the-second reporting on the portal, we elevate the false idols of scores and grades and devalue what really has an impact on learning: positive student-teacher relationships , relevance and student engagement. We cannot reduce our students to becoming letters and numbers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. radio and televisions in the early 20th century and online learning and MOOCs via the Internet in the early 21st century.) For example, California recently released a report with.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Department of Education on Monday distributed proposals for rewriting the gainful-employment rule , which the Trump administration halted last summer,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

This type of assessment is not about understanding what a students knows and reporting on it, but it is a tool used for learning. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Many students are smart enough that they know how to meet the objectives of a rubric and still not grow much in their learning.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

.” And in Delaware , “Authorities have arrested two Smyrna high school students in connection with threats involving clowns and bombs ,” the AP reports. ” “ Clown College Calls National Rash of Rumored Clown Scares ‘Troubling’,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Raise $146.1

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

.” “ Kansas lawmakers, trying to head off a court shutdown of the state’s public schools, have increased aid to poor districts by $38 million,” NPR reports. ” (Related, via the US News & World Report : “Women Losing Out on Career and Technical Education.”). Presidential Campaign Politics.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 19, 2018

. “ Digital Promise Global has received a three-year, $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation to address equitable access to computational education in public schools,” Education Week reports. “ James Damore is moving his lawsuit against Google out of court,” The Verge reports. million total.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

In 2016, she found, for instance, that we tend to overestimate how well we share our feelings via email — even among friends. That logic might also explain why online-only courses, including much-vaunted MOOCs, struggle to retain students. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Here’s media reporter Mathew Ingram’s take (and there are lots of takes out there. “ California ’s teacher tenure battle is reignited by Vergara appeal and a new bill,” The LA Times reports. Via The US News & World Report : “The View From a Testing Giant.” MOOCs for credit !

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

The report concludes that ‘companies are struggling to redesign the training environment, incorporate new learning technologies, and utilize the incredible array of digital learning tools now available’. This is a much better investment of a company’s time in their corporate learning program.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers. Parts 2 and 3 of the course will be offered in 2016 and will cover rotational motion, gravity, oscillations, electricity, circuits and sound. “This isn’t a typical MOOC. Professor Hafner and his ‘accomplices’ really try to make physics fun.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

Of these, 75 percent took online and/or blended courses because they have a personal interest in the topic, or hoped to gain additional knowledge about it, the 2016 SIIA Vision K-20 Professional Learning Survey found. The report was released exclusively to EdWeek Market Brief today, and will be given wider distribution Tuesday.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. The best and most digestible books I’ve found are “ The ABCS of How We Learn ,” a 2016 book by Daniel Schwartz and “ How People Learn ,” the 1999 foundational text edited by John Bransford, Ann Brown, and Rodney Cocking. Surely a lot has changed!

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Secret CPS report spotlights big vacancies, lopsided options for students.” Via The Hechinger Report : “For students teetering on the edge financially, micro-grants help them finish college.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This year feels different too than the previous years in which I’ve written these reviews because education technology – as an industry – sort of floundered in 2016, as I think my series will show. It’s from these weekly and monthly reports that I start to build my analysis. Beyond the MOOC.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

.” Elsewhere in Trumplandia: “ Columbia University has declined to comment on recent reports that Monica Crowley , an appointee of President-elect Donald J. dissertation at the university,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. More on the report via Edsurge. ” Price tag for the report: $3599.

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