Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

Restaurants have rapidly shifted to online and mobile ordering, and are speeding up the deployment of digital kiosks that replace human workers. In the COVID-19 era, microcredentials can also be a solution to the need for “ learning continuity ”—providing waystations as students cycle in and out of educational experiences and work.

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Learning Digital Badges E-rate MOOC 160

Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Here we are talking about virtual campus management solutions or online learning management solutions that can essentially digitize the teaching-learning. Learning is no more institutionalized, and people still take courses and grow their skillset beyond colleges or universities. Responsive Learning/Mobile Application.

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How To MOOC Mobility Course 119

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

James Stewart , marketing director of 51Talk, spoke at the summit about personalized learning’s role in enhancing the quality of education for millions of students across China. One of these advantages is the company’s investment in big data research and expertise.

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MOOC Education Industry Company 216

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

Using GPS data, a runner can track her route and pace, and then share the activity with friends. Why was the fitness app so “sticky” as opposed to the online learning platforms? How could we apply the same practices to learning? In 2016, Strava users uploaded 304 million activities , logged 6.8 billion kudos on the platform.

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Online Learning Course MOOC Udemy 100

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices.

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Examples MOOC Education Competency Based Learning 140

Perry Hewitt

JULY 3, 2015

The first few years of widespread access to MOOCs have created a data trove for researchers. The first one: MOOC students are diverse, but trend toward autodidacts. Google released a real-time trends feature to provide live data on the 100 billion searches conducted each month.

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MOOC Trends Facebook Data 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. Pokémon Go generated more than $160 million by the end of July, hitting $600 million in revenue within its first 90 days on the market – the fastest mobile game to do so.

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Data Technology Education Software 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 17, 2014

Our first-ever Learning Revolution Conference kicks off this coming Monday, April 20th, online and free, with a terrific set of keynote and distinguished speakers and a full day of conference sessions on Thursday, April 24th. Our theme for this conference is "What Are We Learning About Learning?" The schedule is below.

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Conference Learning Mobility Social Media 75

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Now that we’ve assembled international crowds of motivated, smart people online in MOOCs, it’s time to think about harnessing their collective intelligence to tackle these urgent cross-boundary issues. To facilitate this, we’ve landed on a new format for synchronous online learning that’s a mashup of a webinar and crowdfunding platform.

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Meeting MOOC Course Examples 63

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 Software 145

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This series is meant to serve in-depth exploration of the events of the past year and an analysis of how these events shape the way in which we imagine and prepare for the future of teaching and learning. Data Insecurity. Beyond the MOOC. The Compulsion for Data. Data and Privacy. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs.

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Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Smartphone 111

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers. This was despite the fact that all three schools had the same levels of technology access.

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EdTech Khan Academy MOOC Broadband 98

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

In discussion we touched on cognitive computing, “quick” (live or easily published) video (Kat’s term), video growing on mobile devices. Also on mobile we mentioned reading on phones and the uneven deployment of cell phones in America.

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Trends MOOC BYOD Social Media 40

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Chip Paucek, CEO and co-founder of 2U “When we think about the trajectory of a learner, from college to a masters program to a MOOC or to a bootcamp, there is a lot of opportunity for universities to play a role across that spectrum and reinvent themselves,” Paucek tells EdSurge in an interview. “If

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Company Education MOOC Conference 99

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. Vive la MOOC Révolution. The British MOOC company FutureLearn entered the US market.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Ed-tech is not a tool that exists only in the service of improving teaching and learning, although that's very much how it gets talked about. Me personally, I don't want the future of education to be more monitored, data-mined, analyzed, predicted, molded, controlled. I don't want education to look that way now, but it does.

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Software ProctorU Company Data 141

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

But I’ve purposefully called this series “trends” because I like to imagine it helps defang some of the bulleted list of crap that other publications churn out, claiming that this or that product is going to “change everything” about how we teach and learn. Beyond the MOOC. The Compulsion for Data.

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Trends MOOC Khan Academy Maker Movement 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

This year’s cohort, whose products range from game-based learning to AI-generated flashcards, has a lot to be excited about. The San Francisco-based startup provides a gamified platform where girls can learn engineering through online videos taught by other girls around the world.

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EdTech Meeting Education Company 60

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

he’s been using virtual labs to create more realistic learning opportunities for online students—changes he believes will make quality education more authentic and accessible for all learners. He’d heard so much about online education as a learning path and he wanted to experience it firsthand. Online learning can help this situation.

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MOOC Coursera Online Learning Course 85

Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

This is the fourth blog post in my series on the future of learning and technology. Automated assessment of learning through computer adaptive testing is another trend he predicts, where students are given grades based on their performance on multiple choice questions. What will be the future of school classrooms? Is he right?

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Classroom MOOC Trends Social Media 62

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Educational technology trends.

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Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

MindShift

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In our own time, advocates of online learning promise to level the educational playing fields with massive open online courses, MOOCs. The most compelling evidence for the democratizing power of MOOCs comes from a new generation of Horatio Alger stories, where the video lecture replaces the bootblack’s cloth.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 10, 2012

The Learning 2.0 Learning 2.0 It is a unique chance to participate in a global conversation on rethinking teaching and learning in the age of the Internet. Subject strands include changes in the classroom, in student learning, in teacher personal and professional growth, in schools, and in pedagogy.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 30, 2017

In my last blog post I wrote about an illustration from 1930 that depicted - quite accurately - how people would be using their mobile phones for video communication. Once the connections exist, it really doesn't matter where you are located - you can gain access to all of the content, as is now seen in MOOCs and other online courses.

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Education MOOC Mobility Technology 42

Hack Education

AUGUST 17, 2018

One Problem: The Data Aren’t All There.” Via The Washington Post : “Going mobile: The government’s most crucial financial aid form.” ” One huge problem with the new mobile version of the FAFSA : you can’t use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool on it. How’d He Learn to Fly?”

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Education Robotics Facebook Moodle 48

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 25, 2012

Learning 2.0 ( [link] ) August 20 - 24, 2012 Just announced! Learning 2.0 is a unique chance to participate in a global conversation on rethinking teaching and learning in the age of the Internet. Learning 2.0 Everyone is encouraged to participate--you can present, attend, and/or volunteer to help! can be found ?

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Conference ePortfolio Libraries MOOC 77

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

Powerful Tools for Teaching and Learning: Web 2.0 Foundations of Teaching for Learning 5: Planning for Teaching and Learning. Instructional Design for Mobile Learning. Prior Learning Assessment for Educators and Industry. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 8: Developing Relationships.

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Coursera Course MOOC OER 40

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

But the platform is helping community colleges think through how to use prior-learning assessments to award credit if users do want it, even when the course isn’t technically credit-bearing. Data analysis from New America shows that half of adults with a short-term certificate who are employed earn $30,000 or less per year.

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Company Course Coursera Training 149

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy. Lesson 1: Start with a deep understanding of your learners.

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Udemy Course Coursera MOOC 121

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

Another persistent trend is challenges caused by growing user numbers and activites, including both generating and demanding more data, online behavior abuses, security threats, and challenges about accessibility. We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ). Connectivity raises cost issues, too.

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Trends LMS VLE Technology 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Just like their parents, Chicago students will soon have to learn cursive.” ” (Juul is an e-cigarette that markets its product to teens and peddles social emotional learning content.). Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” My god, that guy. ” asks Wired.

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Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2017

Hint: “It’s mobile,” “We have a better UI,” and “It’s for millennials” are not the answers. Student engagement and retention mobile apps. Bloomz , ClassDojo , Remind ), established companies ( SchoolMessenger ), and other deep pocket players from learning management system providers that already boast significant traction here.

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EdTech LMS Facebook Chegg 81

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

a student who was born with cerebral palsy and whose mobility is impaired, was the catalyst for the first oral argument of the day, in Fry v. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In other words, MOOCs are now gym memberships. Via Edsurge : “The Case for Learning Engineers in Education.”

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Education MOOC E-rate Company 40

Hack Education

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the HR section below. The language learning company has raised $12.5 Achieve3000 has acquired Actively Learn. Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. Students Pay The Tab With Their Personal Data.”

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Education MOOC Company Chegg 49

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. I think many MOOCs (and MOOC providers) will struggle to find a sustainable financial model in their current guise. 5) What is your response to the criticism of MOOCs (e.g. large scale dropouts, superficial learning)?

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MOOC Dropout OER Social Media 28