Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2020

Before authoring the book “Most Likely to Succeed,” and producing the popular documentary of the same name, Ted Dintersmith made his name as a venture capitalist. Recently, we asked Dintersmith for his thoughts on the decade in edtech, as someone who’s seen a fair number of sides of it. As I travel (and I travel a lot!),

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Find out more about mission minded learning in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom. Find several syllabus infographics for various subjects here. Gamify your syllabus!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

And investment continues to flow into the edtech space. While at edX Porter created the Open edX project, which has served more than 55 million learners taking massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Shrier and Porter are also CEO and CTO of Adit EdTech Acquisition Corp., AI does not have to be your foe,” Shrier said. “AI

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It has the most users of any provider of MOOCs (as the large-scale online courses are sometimes called), claiming more than 77 million learners. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. It [can] create this cycle that naturally leads to the winner-takes-all,” says Phil Hill, a longtime edtech consultant.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A decade ago, large-scale online courses known as MOOCs were all the rage, touted as a possible alternative to traditional college and celebrated in the popular press. Talbert had taken MOOCs back when they first started and was unimpressed.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

Offer a book study on Invent to Learn (the authors have created a study guide). Teachers can engage in a meaningful way by joining a book study massive online open course, on books such as The Innovator’s Mindset , Learner-Centered Innovation and Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Five years ago, I published a book on the future of university credentials, making some predictions about what seemed likely to come next in the market for degrees and emerging forms of alternative college credentials. In my book I might have been a bit overly optimistic about the resistance of traditional higher ed, however.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

New study in @PNASNews on MOOC persistence- 2.5 Reich, of MIT, has incorporated the experience into a new book that is due out in September, called “ Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education.” “If The MIT scholar outlined his recent research misadventures and his recommendations in a Twitter thread this week.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

A passenger in first class can be flying free on points, while a traveler jammed into coach might be charged a premium for a last-minute booking. It wasn’t until providers of so-called MOOCs—massive open online courses—entered into online partnership with high-ranking colleges about a decade ago that serious discounting took off.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

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. MOOCs are available from a variety of sources including Coursera , edX and individual participating universities. More on education reform.

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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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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 18, 2014

In the final unit of the Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed , we learned about the importance of and practiced evaluating EdTech tools and resources, such as iPad Apps and websites with the use of rubrics and evaluation tools. I used it to practice evaluating the app, Book Creator , which I already know is great for students!

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2017

Dreamit Edtech network to get their “lemon lists” of concepts, statements, and business models that edtech entrepreneurs may want to think twice—or thrice—about. Yet another student book exchange. MOOCs or General Assembly for country X. So now that you know how to make an edtech investor cringe… please don’t.

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EdTechnocation.com

MARCH 19, 2014

Last week, the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change , began. And this is all ok, because as long as they are making progress, it''s a #EduWin in my book! You can still register for the MOOC-Ed and participate! Digital edtech Learning mooc MOOC-Ed'

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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. And I don’t have a Kindle or any e-book reader. Still print books and magazines.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

One of the most-cited versions of the critique is the 2002 book “ The McDonaldization of Higher Education ,” by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard. The formulation is meant to provoke, and the authors boil their argument into four bullet points (adopting the style and spirit of the business books they critique).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape. More Colleges Are Offering Microcredentials—And Developing Them The Way Businesses Make New Products A few years ago elite universities were frantically jumping into MOOCs.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Book Study/Lit Circles. It seems like educators are always doing book studies, whether that is a study within our own district or cross-collaborating with educators in other areas. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC’s are usually free online courses offered by universities with no limit on enrollment.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Bold claims have been made in the past decade about personalized learning, automated assessments and massive open online courses (MOOCs). He jokingly sums up the learning outcomes of MOOCs with a simplified observation he calls Reich’s Law: . Reich is executive director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab and co-founder of EdTechTeacher.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Neil Rickus ; EdTech Consultant & Former Teacher. In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. There is a great future for blended learning as part of an EdTech strategy. What is blended learning?

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

My classmates from Stanford’s Learning Design and Technology master’s program have gone on to design for big brands like Airbnb and Google as well as edtech upstarts including the African Leadership University, General Assembly, Osmo and Udacity. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

ESSA: What Edtech Providers Need to Know : Whiteboard Advisors Senior Vice President David DeSchryver and Education Week Senior Editor Sean Cavanagh break down one of the biggest federal education policies to pass in the last decade: the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). continues to grow, how can edtech help serve this population?

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

20 NEW Ways to Use #GoogleClassroom #gttribe #SUL #googleedu #gsuiteedu #edtech Click To Tweet. googleedu #gsuiteedu #edtech Click To Tweet. Book Study/Lit Circles. It seems like educators are always doing book studies, whether that is a study within our own district or cross-collaborating with educators in other areas.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

One of the best books I read this year was Bad Blood by WSJ journalist John Carreyou. “EdTech fails to pay, again,” The Financial Times chuckled. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution. And its CEO stepped down.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

ProfHacker

MARCH 6, 2017

Our field (in this case anything edtech or open ed) is fast-changing and if you keep up with things, you get new ideas all the time that can shift your priorities. Micro from as big as a health crisis for a family member to an idea from a children’s book or cartoon I experienced with my kid. Our focus is Open Access.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Free MOOCs Face the Music,” writes Inside Higher Ed on edX ’s decision to start charging fees. More “MOOC” news under the job training section below. million for its MOOC platform. douglevin) June 11, 2018. million total.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).” And digital bits have replaced the need to cut down trees to make paper and waste ink to create those books.”

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). So much MOOC news! (Or “ MOOCs Are Global. Also via Edsurge : “How Harvard Is Trying to Update the Extension School for the MOOC Age.” “ Are Edtech Companies Doing Enough to Protect Student Privacy? ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

” Via Edsurge : “Golden State GDPR: What the Edtech Industry Should Know About CA ’s New Privacy Rules.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ MOOCs May Still Be Reshaping Higher Education, Just Not In the Way That Was Initially Predicted.”

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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).” “Dean Dad” Matt Reed on “‘ Netflix for Books.’”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. The Economist on “ The Return of the MOOC.” Via Techcrunch : “ Nickelodeon gets into e-books with new reading app for kids, Nick Jr.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

But I’m putting that project on pause while I write my book. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Stop Asking About Completion Rates: Better Questions to Ask About MOOCs in 2019,” says Edsurge. .” National) Education Politics. The company has raised $16.6

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” More MOOC job changes: Techcrunch reports that “ Coursera ’s chief product officer just left to become a VC.” ” From the HR Department.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s baaaaack: “Return of the MOOC ,” The City Journal tells us. There’s some (sorta) MOOC-related news in the venture funding section below. Because MOOCs on an airplane proved to be such an effective mode of instruction.

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

But that hasn’t stopped us from asking a number of experts in education and technology to gaze into their crystal balls and share their thoughts on one major EdTech trend we can expect to see lighting up learning and one major challenge that education will face in 2016. She has authored 6 books on education. GoConqr Click To Tweet.

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Via Edsurge : “ Office of Edtech Wants Help Making Sense of All Those Higher Ed Providers.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Vive la MOOC révolution. ” “Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages” by Jeffrey Pomerantz in Hybrid Pedagogy. Via Edsurge : “?In

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! FutureLearn announced that two UK universities – the University of Leeds and the Open University – will offer MOOCs that will be accepted for college credit. For more on MOOCs for credit, see the “MOOCs” section above.

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