Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. As for MOOCs, in 2012, the elites in higher education discovered online learning, which many others felt they had already invented and improved over the previous 15 years. OER and open books. Digital badges.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

One of these advantages is the company’s investment in big data research and expertise. This investment has enabled 51Talk to better assess student proficiency, and then match each assessed student with the proper level of coursework.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

EdSurge talked with Rick Levin, CEO of Coursera (and former president of one of those big-name universities, Yale) about how the mega-courses known as MOOCs have changed in the five years since the start of their hype-filled debut. It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. How’s that going?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Learning Management Systems With learning management systems now installed at nearly all higher education institutions here and abroad, instructors can create course materials, assess student progress and generate custom exams. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 119

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. a mixed methodological approach so that we're gathering qualitative data that tells the story about the quantitative findings.

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 184

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 15, 2015

Quantified Learners: Moving Beyond Assessment. Schools are organizing databases around students that look at multiple performance indicators, and now, more than ever, learning is informed and registered through collections of data points and not just a grade. Data shouldn’t just look back; it needs to point forward.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In my last post, “Common Assessments” vs “Common Understandings” , I was reminded of how powerful comments are on a blog, and why blogging is a hugely powerful tool for not only sharing your learning, but learning from others. 2 What I think we mean is that we are looking for “common understandings”, not “common assessments”.

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Data Assessment Differentiated Instruction MOOC 77

Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Any solution that you choose to trust your whole institution’s data should be dependable. Data-Driven Results As an institution, the way you treat education and manage it is different from MOOCs or short-term online courses. There are intricate levels of hierarchy, complex workflows, and data-driven decision making involved.

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How To MOOC Mobility Course 119

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

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

An “uber trend” of remote work for higher education information security is coming, at a time when more connections are being forged between higher ed and other state data. In short, the authors note, “security and data privacy have an extraordinary and increasing significance on the horizon of higher education institutions.”

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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. Use of data analytics. Open Curriculum. ’, Dustin Swanger, Ed.D Free Tuition.

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Examples MOOC Education Competency Based Learning 140

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2018

MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines. So we talked with Dhawal Shah, founder and CEO of Class Central, who has been tracking MOOCs closely ever since he was a student in one of those first Stanford open courses, about how MOOCs have evolved.

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MOOC Social Media Company Trends 91

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

As an example, in 2014, LinkedIn’s top ten jobs were jobs that hadn’t existed five years prior: social media intern, iOS/Android developer, cloud manager, big data architect, or UI/UX designer as examples. can’t just say, “Here’s a MOOC, or here’s an online degree, or a 6- to 12-week immersive bootcamp.”. We have to do better.

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MOOC Udemy Learning Assessment 122

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

Using GPS data, a runner can track her route and pace, and then share the activity with friends. I realized that I was recording hours of deliberate practice (my early morning runs), formative assessments (the occasional speed workout on the track) and even a few summative assessments (races) on the app.

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Online Learning Course MOOC Udemy 102

Linways Technologies

MARCH 31, 2020

This sets institutional education apart from the MOOCs, or online course delivery tools. It goes beyond classroom interactions and file sharing to analytics, reports, data-driven decision making, and maintaining the order. What are the different Assessment Tools available in Linways? That’s where Linways AMS comes in.

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Course System MOOC Assessment 111

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

This is already evident in the latest national job-market data, which shows a 15 percent unemployment rate for high school graduates with no college and 13 percent for those with some college or an associate degree—compared to 7 percent for individuals with a bachelor’s or higher.

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Learning Digital Badges E-rate MOOC 165

EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 26, 2015

” On his blog, EdTechResearcher , Justin says this video has “some good reflections on learning analytics, data, MOOCs, testing, pyschometrics, and more with a nice balance of humility and optimism. ” Join Justin and the rest of EdTechTeacher in Boston November 16-18th, 2015.

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iPad Video MOOC Learning Analytics 60

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies: Who’s behind the information? The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download.

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

He writes: “Higher-education institutions have a major opportunity to play a role in the new corporate L&D landscape beyond simply course delivery, assessment and credentialing.” For universities and researchers, it’s radically altered the way they interact with Big Data on a daily basis. .

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Many students cannot afford the heavy data usage required by geofencing apps, for starters. Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account. To data about students’ sexual identity?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). A glimpse : “In China ’s Silicon Valley, Edtech Starts at the ‘MOOC Times Building’ ” Via Class Central : “By The Numbers: MOOCs in 2018.” Via Edsurge : “ GlassLab Set Out to Prove Games Could Assess Learning.

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MOOC Education Elsevier Report 78

Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Me personally, I don't want the future of education to be more monitored, data-mined, analyzed, predicted, molded, controlled. That is, we are less likely to use ed-tech to rethink assignments or assessments than we are to use ed-tech more closely scrutinize student behavior. I don't want education to look that way now, but it does.

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Software ProctorU Company Data 141

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

” Via NPR : “Data Shows 99% Of Applicants For A Student Loan Forgiveness Program Were Denied.” ” There’s more data on student loans in the research and data section at the bottom. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. Next page: edtech trends 6-10: Better content, small data and neuroscience). Conferences ran streaming video events.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Smartphone 111

Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Students should also be involved in decision-making efforts around what data is used and how that data is used, said Megan Raymond. There is a lot of data to sort, and Fendley, our special guest reminded us there’s only more to come. As Patrice Torcivia tweeted, it’s “critical to combine this data with human interaction.

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Education Data MOOC Industry 68

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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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Assessing the Travel Ban : What New Data on Overseas Recruitment Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us.” More on certifications in the MOOC section above. No, we don’t.).

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MOOC Education Robotics Company 57

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work? These proctoring tools gather and analyze far more data than just a student's words, than their responses on an exam.

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Robotics Software Company ProctorU 83

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Education Department received about 28,000 applications for Public Service Loan Forgiveness as of June 30 of this year but so far has approved just under 300 applications for loan discharge, according to new federal data released Wednesday.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Education MOOC Pearson Blackboard 58

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

Prior Learning Assessment for Educators and Industry. GSE3x: Introduction to Data Wise: A Collaborative Process to Improve Learning & Teaching. Performance Assessment in the Virtual Classroom. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 6: Introduction to Student Assessment. IOC Athlete MOOC via Independent.

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Coursera Course MOOC OER 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

With a team of developers, designers, behavioral scientists, data scientists and student fellows, DIG helps translate digital engagement tools from innovation to infrastructure. Worrying over questions about culture, data and technology could easily constrain our thinking from the start. Then consider constraints.

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Advocacy Software MOOC Learning Analytics 60

EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. Number one skill for being successful in learning: the ability to self-assess.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

MOOCs, technology infusion projects, online masters or pathways to credit, research. Engage the expertise of faculty to assess if tech you are using is effective. It's difficult to assess overall efficacy when data is not transparent. Analyzing tech use should help us assess teaching effectiveness.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 13, 2017

Relying heavily on data crunching, Bock told The New York Times a few years back that GPAs and test scores are worthless as a criteria for hiring, unless you’re an entry-level grad. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! When hiring, high GPAs and test scores don’t matter.

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MOOC Google Assessment Strategy 42

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. ” Via Class Central : “Class Central’s Top 50 MOOCs of All Time (2018 edition).” Writing assessment company Writable has raised $3.2

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Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP. ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story. “MOOCs Are ”Dead.“ “ What’s Next? Uh-oh,” writes John Warner in IHE. ” Sham courses.

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