Perry Hewitt

JULY 3, 2015

How does do Americans’ internet access and usage correlate with age? Pew has released a new report on Americans’ internet access 2000-2015. Class and educational attainment remain access factors but are shrinking. The first few years of widespread access to MOOCs have created a data trove for researchers.

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MOOC Trends Facebook Data 60

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

When the crowd gets above 40 (I think) Shindig breaks people up into multiple rooms accessible through a Mingle Bar on the bottom of the screen, like so: . In discussion we touched on cognitive computing, “quick” (live or easily published) video (Kat’s term), video growing on mobile devices.

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Trends MOOC BYOD Social Media 40

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

he’s been using virtual labs to create more realistic learning opportunities for online students—changes he believes will make quality education more authentic and accessible for all learners. Byun talks to EdSurge about how virtual labs promote active, authentic and accessible learning, and the future of online education.

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MOOC Coursera Online Learning Course 99

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The tool, which recently surpassed more than one million flashcards, uses artificial intelligence to generate multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank and other quiz-based flashcards from user-uploaded PDFs, URLs, or even photos of handwritten notes or textbooks taken using the PrepFlash mobile app. But entrepreneurs behind Comprend.io

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EdTech Meeting Education Company 60

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

Another persistent trend is challenges caused by growing user numbers and activites, including both generating and demanding more data, online behavior abuses, security threats, and challenges about accessibility. Another problem less well discussed is the challenge of accessibility. Can’t U’s use tech the same way?”

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Trends LMS VLE Technology 40

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

The expenses of operating Unmudl are shared among the community college partners and employers who pay to have access to the platform. Data analysis from New America shows that half of adults with a short-term certificate who are employed earn $30,000 or less per year. Who Benefits?

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 30, 2017

In my last blog post I wrote about an illustration from 1930 that depicted - quite accurately - how people would be using their mobile phones for video communication. Once the connections exist, it really doesn't matter where you are located - you can gain access to all of the content, as is now seen in MOOCs and other online courses.

Education 42

Education MOOC Mobility Technology 42

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 25, 2012

Subject strands include physical and virtual learning spaces, evolving professional roles in today''s world, organizing and creating information, changing delivery methods, user-centered access, and mobile and geo-social information environments. A full strand list is available ?

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Conference ePortfolio Libraries MOOC 77

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

Instructional Design for Mobile Learning. GSE3x: Introduction to Data Wise: A Collaborative Process to Improve Learning & Teaching. Universal Design and Accessibility for Online Learning. IOC Athlete MOOC via Independent. College Readiness Math MOOC. iTDI Summer School MOOC For English Teachers.

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Coursera Course MOOC OER 40

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. I think many MOOCs (and MOOC providers) will struggle to find a sustainable financial model in their current guise. 5) What is your response to the criticism of MOOCs (e.g. 5) What is your response to the criticism of MOOCs (e.g.

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MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 19, 2017

WEBINAR PLATFORM : The sessions will be held in Blackboard Collaborate , and can be accessed live from any personal computer and most mobile devices. (To Registration will give you access to the live event and to the event recordings. If you aren't able to enter that room, see Behind the Blackboard Support.)

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Libraries Conference Blackboard Maker Movement 34

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2018

Debates about how to expand access to higher education often assume a one-size-fits-all model of what college should be. Is his definition of access the most practical way to achieve broader higher-education participation? You want to data analytics in healthcare? Or is it giving up on a segment of students?

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Secondary Outcomes Industry MOOC 68

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 10, 2012

The conference sessions are being held in Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate), and can be accessed live from any personal computer. The conference schedule and links for each virtual session will be posted at [link] during the week before the conference begins, with listings by time zones for anywhere in the world.

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Conference Blackboard ePortfolio Learning 75

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Nowadays, mobile technologies are shaping up to be just as ground-breaking. Massive Open Online Courses (Sometimes referred to as MOOCs) – MOOCs are readily available courses that are presented online. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn.

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Khan Academy MOOC Course Software 255

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Mara Cabrera, SLIS Graduate Student, Research Assistant Taming the Quantitative Data Monster with LibPAS: What?

Libraries 64

Libraries Conference eBook Mobility 64

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). That meant open source software, open education resources, and open access in scholarly publication.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Kids have access to information; we must teach them how to navigate a world constantly evolving where content is at their fingertips. isn’t simply limited to YouTube either (though it does work seamlessly there); Khan, Vimeo, and several MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platforms work as well. Original Post/ Teaching Channel.

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Tools Edcamps Social Media Video 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. There are, after all, only so many times you can put “mobile” on your list of “what’s on the horizon” before folks begin to suspect your insights might not be that… insightful. How accurate is her data? (I’d

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

ABL pedagogy aims to enrich students’ academic experience and learning outcomes by connecting theory with practice, and concepts with methods, using data and insight they obtain through engagement with the larger world.” An acronym for Massively Open Online Course, a digital course that allows asynchronous access to content.

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Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

Restaurants have rapidly shifted to online and mobile ordering, and are speeding up the deployment of digital kiosks that replace human workers. Major employers are embracing libraries of video and MOOC courses, tuition-assistance programs for online courses, and bootcamps focused on tech skills (which have themselves moved online).

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Learning Digital Badges E-rate MOOC 185

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. But the data is flawed. But Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. I don’t think so.

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Rather than our traditional conception of “training” as a time-out from everyday work to visit to a classroom, on-the-job learning is increasingly about access to just-in-time, job-relevant content—often via a laptop or a smartphone, whether at a desk or on a manufacturing shop floor.

Learning 168

Learning Training Digital Badges Coursera 168

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As concerns about “fake news” make clear, Silicon Valley’s influence also extends to how we access information and build knowledge; it extends to the stories we hear and share. Data Insecurity. Beyond the MOOC. The Compulsion for Data. Data and Privacy. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs.

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Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers. This was despite the fact that all three schools had the same levels of technology access.

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EdTech Khan Academy MOOC Broadband 114

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Via Edsurge : “ Salesforce Announces Mobile App for Advising at Dreamforce.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Raise $146.1

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

” Also via NPR : “‘I Hope This Will Set A Precedent,’ Says Trans Teen Who Won Case Over Bathroom Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.”

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Education MOOC Social Media Report 46

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. The learn-to-code company has raised $1.19

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Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

MindShift

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In our own time, advocates of online learning promise to level the educational playing fields with massive open online courses, MOOCs. The most compelling evidence for the democratizing power of MOOCs comes from a new generation of Horatio Alger stories, where the video lecture replaces the bootblack’s cloth.

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Course MOOC Digital Divide Online Learning 28

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ MOOCs no longer massive, still attract millions,” Class Central’s Dhawal Shah claims in a VentureBeat op-ed. Udacity ’s mobile apps now support “ offline learning.” ” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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Khan Academy Education LMS Company 40

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. Via the Udacity blog : “ Udacity Launches Mobile Developer Education with Facebook at F8.” “He’s got access to your students’ info and is trying to decide what to do.

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Education MOOC Facebook Report 45

Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Via Gamasutra : “Parents take Subway Surfers devs to court over alleged misuse of kids’ data.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” ” More via Wired.

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Education Coursera Khan Academy MOOC 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. Pokémon Go generated more than $160 million by the end of July, hitting $600 million in revenue within its first 90 days on the market – the fastest mobile game to do so. .”

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2016

’” Online Education, Beyond “MOOCs” Via Mindwire Consulting’s Phil Hill : “The Remarkable Transformation at UF Online.” More on the “gig economy” from Data & Society.). Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. How its profits mostly go to wealthy executives rather than workers ?

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Education Report Android Libraries 40

Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Virginia circuit court on Thursday ruled against a George Mason University student group seeking access to donor agreements between a university foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Doesn’t that seem small?

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Education Khan Academy Blackboard Report 43

Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

“Every Generation Gets the Beach Villain It Deserves” – The NYT’s Nellie Bowles on tech billionaire Vinod Khosla ’s attempts to restrict access to the California coastline near his mansion. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Thank you, big data, for giving people this insight.

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Education Social Media Company Data 41