Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

We’ve rounded up our 10 most popular articles from 2017, as picked by our readers. In a Q&A, Boyer discusses his flipped syllabus, integrating technology into course design, and why an easy A requires a lot of hard work. So what were some of the most popular themes?

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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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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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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Today I tweeted this article: Thoughts? – Technologies That Will Define the Classroom of the Future https://t.co/XnFCPlER4r. 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.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

The amount of new acronyms in the educational technology world is staggering… and often overwhelming for educators. BYOT – Bring Your Own Technology. CREATE – Collaboartion, Resources, Educate, Apps, Technology, Enriching. ICT – Information Communications Technology. STEAM – Science, Technology, Art, Engineering, Maths.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2022

In recent years, blockchain technology has become a buzzword in the edtech sector. The technology can be used to authenticate the identities of people, to determine ownership or to verify data. The time to assess the benefits and drawbacks of blockchain technology is right now, before adoption in schools and universities is widespread.

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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

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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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This week’s podcast is brought to you by UNC Chapel Hill’s Master of Arts in Educational Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Program, known as the MEITE Program : MEITE is for students pursuing careers in the educational technology industry. Yes, of course I can give lots of articles and reading.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

” Competency-Based Education isn’t necessarily an innovation, but a move to Competency-Based Education can lead to other innovations–using technology to personalize a student’s navigation of to-be-mastered content, for example. In a 2016 article, ‘ Innovation in Higher Education: Can Colleges Really Change?’,

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2022

What exactly that means for the future technology in schools is still uncertain. They’ve both grown to hundreds of thousands of [online] students and hundreds of millions in revenue, more than any coding bootcamp or MOOC. The pandemic forced lasting changes on the American education system.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Are any education technologies, for that matter? 70+ million users’ account details. What is a “Platform”?

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A few weeks ago, I posted a set of recommended readings that I originally sent to a colleague who asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

I’m a little perplexed by the recent call to create a new discipline for education technology. That is, to determine the intellectual contours and to shore up the departmental boundaries – to decree an orthodoxy – for education technology? Education is replete with technologies of discipline.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

He's led work on reporting on college technology, as well as on college admissions and student life. He's been an active podcaster, too, creating programs on the future of higher ed, and on the sometimes-brilliant sometimes-frustrating role of technology in education. EdSurge: MOOCs, MOOCs, MOOCs!

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2016

We’ve written this article in response to the recent EdSurge. And, like Turkle, we are concerned that the predominant uses of technology in higher education—both in the workplace and the classroom—do not place human connections and conversations at their center. That’s not a substitute—we agree.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Our third Library 2.019 mini-conference, "Emerging Technology," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 30th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Tomorrow’s technologies are shaping our world today, revolutionizing the way we live and learn.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 8, 2012

He has written 31 books and over 80 published research articles. Media X is Stanford''s catalyst for industry and academic research partnerships on the impact of information and technology on society.'

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

Five years ago I wrote a piece for EdSurge entitled “ Why I’m Optimistic About The Next Wave of Education Technology,” and at the time I wanted to counteract the feelings many were expressing that the edtech bubble was about to burst. More than $1 billion in headline-grabbing transactions are likely to be announced at the event.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Last week, a colleague asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. There have been some good articles, books, and chapters that are important in particular, narrow contexts but I don’t think that I’ve seen anything essential or seminal.

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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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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Some technologies enable social interaction while others purposefully remove it. And in an online course, technology must play a role in fostering student-to-student, student-to-instructor and student-to-content interactions during break out groups, interactive polls or back channels. Walk In Students’ Shoes.

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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. The technology to learn a foreign language is at your fingertips! Your voice will then be compared using voice recognition technology, and you’ll see just how proper your English pronunciation is.

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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

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Some of this is a result of an influx of Silicon Valley types in recent years — people with no ties to education or education technology who think that their ignorance and lack of expertise is a strength. In technology, all that matters is tomorrow." I mean forgetting what happened five, ten years ago.

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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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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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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. These are my observations about what’s happened in education technology (and education more broadly) over the course of the past 12 months. Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking.

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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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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2013

However, as we become increasingly connected to each other through technology, and our social ties strengthen, so there is greater scope for students to learn together, sharing their resources and ideas, and approaching their study collaboratively. You can read more on collaborative learning space design approaches in this article.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

Not all asynchronous learning is the same and new trends emerge as new technology emerges–and more importantly, our collective definitions and vision for what learning is and might be change with them. Asynchronous learning generally uses technology that enables students to access course materials on their own.

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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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