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The Metamorphosis of MOOCs

Edsurge

At a recent meeting of educational technology policy advisors, a well-informed university CIO casually declared that MOOCs were history. Increasingly, MOOCs are being packaged into series of courses with a non-degree credential being offered to those who successfully complete the series.

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A Proposal to Put the ‘M’ Back in MOOCs

Edsurge

MOOCs have evolved over the past five years from a virtual version of a classroom course to an experience that feels more like a Netflix library of teaching videos. These days, most MOOC providers let learners start courses whenever they like (or on a bi-weekly or monthly basis, as Coursera does). But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

As challenge-based learning grows in popularity, let’s think of ways that we can use Google Classroom to allow students and teachers to, “sign-up,” for optional challenges by joining a Google Classroom Class designed to detail the challenge, provide resources, and allow the user to submit their evidence for meeting the challenge.

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A Podcast for Every Discipline? The Rise of Educational Audio

Edsurge

Two years ago Davis decided to put on a conference for people making these kinds of podcasts, called Sound Education. 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.

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GSV Ventures Raises $180M Fund in Search of Global Edtech Opportunities

Edsurge

With an investment fund, a conference and a constellation of advisory services, GSV may be the closest thing to an omnipresent brand in education investing. Its portfolio includes “unicorns” like Coursera, one of the original MOOCs that is reportedly exploring options to go public. Specifically, across the ocean. billion in 2017.

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Lessons From This 'Golden Age' of Learning Science

Edsurge

The setting was the SXSW EDU Conference and Festival in Austin, Texas. She also teaches Learning How to Learn , one of the most popular Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Chiba: Yeah, one of the most difficult things is that everybody has different demands in their jobs, and it's really hard to take the time to meet in the middle.

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Stanford Calls for Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Ed

Edsurge

The ideas that came out of that meeting, and a similar one that took place two years ago, form the basis of a new Stanford-hosted website, “ Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Education. ” McKay attended the summer meeting at the Asilomar Conference Grounds in California. The site launched Sept. For Stevens, his “aha!”

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