Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2022

Additionally, stories about companies and nonprofits trying to innovate within higher ed attracted a lot of attention, as did several articles about learning science and new teaching practices. Below is a countdown of the top 10 articles of 2021 as voted by reader interest. Young The MOOC giant was valued at more than $3.6

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

2U and the OPM market have come under fire in recent years for, in effect, encouraging unsustainably high graduate program tuition, thus increasing student debt, culminating in the Wall Street Journal article about the University of Southern California’s Online Masters of Social Work that charged upwards of $115,000 for a two-year program.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 27, 2022

In this article , I talked about the skills students need to be ready for their future jobs. The pandemic brought about investments in teacher training, mainly in using ICT to upgrade their knowledge to the requirements of the 21st century and to benefit their students who need to develop future-ready skills.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

One of EdSurge’s most popular articles described how a teacher used flexible seating to create a classroom that resembled Starbucks, spawning a movement to “ Starbucks your classroom. ” Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms.

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Educator Innovator

DECEMBER 8, 2015

It takes more than just engaging content to have a successful MOOC. Through an inquiry-based process, our partner The Friday Institute discovered that offering multiple ways for participants to connect during the MOOC led to more positive outcomes. Read the full article at The Friday Institute. ” By Lauren Acree.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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EdTechnocation.com

AUGUST 26, 2013

Today, I came across a post on Google+ by +George Station about a MOOC being offered through Leeward Community College, a local college in my state, by Dr. Melissa Kaulbach. LCC mooc online teach tomooc' It begins on Sept. 2 and the focus is on "How to Teach Online!"

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). SAMR – Subsitution, Augmentation, Modification, Reinvention ( click for my article ). IOT – Internet of Things (Connecting devices to a network i.e. lights, phones, TVs).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype. That’s the case for Davis, who for several years was a producer of video classes for HarvardX, Harvard’s MOOC production wing. “I

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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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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2022

When The Wall Street Journal published their article centered around [Louisiana State University's] lazy river , it became the canonical example of university services being run to excess, with lots of entrepreneurs stepping up to "unbundle" the university with faster/cheaper/better options.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2022

For example, including MOOCs in a student’s education transcript might allow that student to demonstrate achievements and skills gained outside of traditional higher education institutions, especially if data are stored in a decentralized way that is not dependent on the database of a university. A privately learned new language?

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The Principal of Change

JULY 14, 2019

The article, “The Most Important Way To Measure Your Day” by Tim Denning , focuses on two simple questions as a focus of a way to measure a successful day: 1. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Did I learn one new thing today? Did I help or inspire one person? Did I learn one new thing today?

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

First the numbers: In the past year, we have published more than 300 articles about the shifting trends in higher ed, education technology and digital learning. Don’t be a stranger in year two—here’s the team below (plus each of our favorite articles so far) to help break the ice. What’s my favorite EdSurge HigherEd article?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

EdSurge: MOOCs, MOOCs, MOOCs! Young: Long live MOOCs! But as it turns out, massive online classes are still with us—my wife and I are slowly making our way through a philosophy MOOC from the University of Copenhagen. What was particularly memorable to you about that article? So what happened here?

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Listen to this article. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC’s are usually free online courses offered by universities with no limit on enrollment. If that happens to be you, here’s a support page to explain the new controls and settings in your admin console. 20 New Ways to Use #GoogleClassroom. Click To Tweet.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 8, 2012

He has written 31 books and over 80 published research articles. Other research interests include: theory of information, models of reasoning, applications of mathematical techniques in the study of communication, and mathematical cognition.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

New research out of MIT, Tsinghua University, and Harvard came to the conclusion that online learning…specifically MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) do work… or at least work as good as traditional teaching. An article overview of the the research can be found here. . Check out our online courses at Eduro Learning here.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

What lessons can be learned from the rise and pivot of MOOCs, those large-scale online courses that proponents said would disrupt higher education? At the start of the MOOC trend in 2012, the promise was that the free online courses could reach students who could not afford or get access to other forms of higher education.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 25, 2017

Scared of a culture that tends to comment based on headlines, not on articles, I was terrified that this could turn into an “entitled youth” bashing barrage (which if you read the comments from many, is what happened). The title signifies something different than what the article is saying.

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ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

This post is inspired by an article called The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman. Thanks to Gardner Campbell for sharing it while collaboratively annotating an article for the #OpenLearning17 MOOC. The same occurs in connectivist MOOCs (cMOOCs).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

For more about using Minecraft with language learners, David Dodgson recommends the following resources: Articles. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube. Digging Deeper: Learning and Re-learning with Student and Teacher Minecraft Communities. Language Learning and Minecraft. Ideas for Using Minecraft in the Classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Note: This article originally appeared in Stanford News. moment about the need for a big data code of ethics came soon after “MOOC mania” struck higher education in 2012. The sudden rise of MOOCs, or massive open online courses, and the deluge of data that followed were both thrilling and unsettling. For Stevens, his “aha!”

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

Curt began by describing the use of MOOCs for faculty and staff development, with examples such as a University of London effort. In fact, open MOOCs can work for any population, esp. I asked how open learning works for non-professionals, citing research showing many MOOC users are already professionals and/or academics.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Today I tweeted this article: Thoughts? MOOCs and other online learning options. Read the whole article to get an in more depth look. ). – Technologies That Will Define the Classroom of the Future https://t.co/XnFCPlER4r. XnFCPlER4r. George Couros (@gcouros) December 28, 2016. Augmented Reality. 3D Printers. Biometrics.

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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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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2013

You can read more on collaborative learning space design approaches in this article. With the increasing popularity of such movements as the Flipped Classroom , and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), other more radical formal learning space configurations are taking place. MOOCs take learning even farther away from the classroom.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

I saw the title of this article, “ Are Parent-Teacher Conferences Becoming Obsolete? I was expecting the article to talk about moving away from the “traditional parent conference” (sitting around for 10-20 minutes talking about a child’s experience in school) to something more student-led.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 6, 2013

A short article appearing in the Independent newspaper on April 6th highlights the tensions brewing because of the use of marking software. What he doesn''t say is that it''s an essential part of the management of MOOC s, especially if they are regularly enrolling upwards of 100,000 students for each course. Unported License.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Class Central’s Dhawal Shah, writing in Edsurge : “ MOOCs Find Their Audience: Professional Learners and Universities.” State and Local) Education Politics.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

New technologies revamped foreign language learning, in this article we highlight out what to expect in the upcoming years. Some methods will remain essential for developing language skills, such as MOOCs or tutoring. Chatting with robots. What if the teachers from the future are robots! Teaching languages with a tutor.

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Wired Campus

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Concerns about Yik Yak and analysis of MOOCs and online teaching were among the most popular stories this past year on our Wired Campus blog. And while massive open online courses have largely fallen out of the national headlines, three of the top 10 articles in 2015 involved MOOCs (in one case, charting their fade from prominence).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Here is a list of all the articles I wrote as part of my look at the “ Top Ed-Tech Trends ” of the year. This year, I also published a number of supplemental articles detailing the funding for each of these “trends”: How Much Venture Capital Did Ed-Tech Raise in 2016? Who’s Funding MOOCs in 2016?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

In a recent article on EdSurge George Siemens notes that while adaptive technology in large online or blended courses make learning more efficient, they’re perpetuating an outdated form of learning. New technologies promise a more adaptive and personalized learning experience. However, many are coding the human element out of learning.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago that interviewed Anthony Levandoski, the Uber engineer sued by Google for stealing its self-driving car technology. "The only thing that matters is the future," Levandoski told the magazine. Unfathomable. Impenetrable. Incomprehensible. Inexplicable.

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