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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Neo LMS

AUGUST 18, 2016

Virtual Reality in your LMS. This may be a very ambitious thought, but imagine the possibilities of having VR as a built-in feature in an LMS. Nowadays it’s very common for most schools to use some sort of LMS or learning platform for their school activities. Can you think of other examples to integrate VR into an LMS?

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Neo LMS

JUNE 22, 2021

An often-cited study on MOOCs says videos should be around six minutes long. However, this rule has been challenged by subsequent evidence such as this Stanford study arguing that MOOC videos are different than formal education videos. After that, most students gradually lose interest.

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Video MOOC Education Student Engagement 300

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. Many prestigious universities such as Harvard offers MOOC at minimal or no cost. MOOC also offers group collaboration and feedback through online evaluation. Learning Management System (LMS).

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). IT – Instructional Technology (the use of tech for instructional purposes).

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EdTech VLE CMS OER 189

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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Neo LMS

JANUARY 27, 2022

Teachers continue to attend the multitude of free massive open online courses (MOOCs) or courses provided by universities and learning platforms as part of their professional development in many countries according to the data of the Global Education Coalition in action UNESCO which caught momentum during the pandemic.

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Future Ready Education Digital Divide MOOC 437

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.

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 194

The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Google Classroom can be used for so much more than just your traditional classroom LMS. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC’s are usually free online courses offered by universities with no limit on enrollment. The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning.

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2020

The Open Universities were already a reality in the 20th century, and with the extensive use of the internet, the MOOC phenomenon has grown exponentially over the last decade. Nowadays, taking a Harvard class on edX (with or without certification) is a possibility for all people with an internet connection.

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How To Education MOOC Online Learning 304

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

You can trace the LMS to PLATO at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, for example, or you can trace it to CourseInfo at Cornell.) I mean, nobody is particularly fond of the learning management system as a piece of ed-tech, but the LMS is not so much evil as it is insidiously unimaginative. We can debate which one. Unknowable.

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Blackboard Coursera LMS ProctorU 96

Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

They were incredibly hardworking people, but the ones creating the most significant social impact in the world were also often too busy to finish a MOOC. University campuses are integrating Kaltura into their LMS platforms to enable students to capture and upload videos. I could hardly blame them.

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Online Learning Course MOOC Udemy 115

TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

A very significant trend likely to gain momentum during 2016 relates to the adoption of learning management system (LMS) platforms to change the way students access and utilize information. LMS Brightspace , an educational platform created by D2L , represents one of the current innovators in this movement.

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Technology LMS Classroom Trends 68

techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Detailed, step-by-step instructions are posted for each team on the LMS. Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day.

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MOOC Adobe EdTech Learning 0

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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MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 89

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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Trends MOOC Coursera Education 42

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015.

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EdTech Chegg Udemy Company 184

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) It’s not even an LMS, quite frankly – something Edmodo tried to use as a selling point for a little while. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ). The LMS market is mature, although the tools are immature. The LMS market is mature, although the tools are immature. Now 65-75% of classes use the campus LMS. What next for the LMS? The next step is building in analytics.

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Trends LMS VLE Technology 40

techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Detailed, step-by-step instructions are posted for each team on the LMS. Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day.

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MOOC Adobe EdTech Learning 50

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

You’re talking about the LMS project, Sakai ? And I remember one of the MOOC founders who said five years later, well MOOCs have failed as an educational experiment. And it just was a disaster. Yeah, it was a disaster, or it didn’t work. It was a passive disaster because it was nobody’s first job. And I go out from there.

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Sakai MOOC Libraries LMS 77

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

In education self-hosting maybe an alternative to the LMS, or a very basic, fundamental element of literacy. Often they haven’t experienced digital teaching, or they were socialized through the LMS and grew used to the locked down experience. Q: Sam from Amherst asked about the LMS for gathering student data. A: Jim hoped so.

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Trends LMS Data MOOC 41

Connecting 2 the World

JANUARY 20, 2014

There has been a lot of discussion lately about the possibility of all classes going online and MOOC''s (Massive online courses)replacing the traditional classroom. However, incorporated in the instructional design is a built in structure required by LMS''s (Learning Management Systems such as Blackboard or Angel).

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Strategy LMS Online Learning Blackboard 63

Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I kicked things off with a survey of major technological developments in a very top level way, then dived into specific, currently used digital tools (the LMS, ePortfolios, video, robotics, big data, social media, 3d printing, etc.). But participants were very, very engaged from the start. Online learning is on the rise.

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Conference ePortfolio LMS Education 40

Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

In education self-hosting maybe an alternative to the LMS, or a very basic, fundamental element of literacy. Often they haven’t experienced digital teaching, or they were socialized through the LMS and grew used to the locked down experience. Q: Sam from Amherst asked about the LMS for gathering student data. A: Jim hoped so.

Trends 40

Trends LMS Data MOOC 40

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Get a lay of the technological landscape, but don’t let your LMS hold you hostage. Check out the list of global MOOC platforms curated by Class Central, but realize there are entirely different ecosystems of platforms that specialize in corporate training or adaptive learning.

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Udemy Course Coursera MOOC 138

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century.

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Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Remember, if you will, the insistence from the University of Virginia Board of Visitors that school was missing the “coming MOOC tsunami” based on columns they’d read in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. ” I wanted to do a lot of screaming at the event, I confess.

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Kaplan MOOC LMS Robotics 58

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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MOOC Technology Education Online Learning 32

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) From a district’s perspective, you don’t want to replace a LMS with 60 different tools,” he adds. Yet for Greenfield, that doesn’t mean taking unnecessary risks. His team looks for fresh approaches, rather than copycats of existing products and services.

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EdTech lynda.com Education Company 60

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 7, 2012

A lot of learning is locked up in LMS systems. You can''t have these kinds of conversations around LMS systems. Moocs are something to look at for moving more toward a culture of sharing. Publishers are taking what we share openly and turning it around to us at horrendous markups. collaboration sharing sxswedu'

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

He has set up a number of alternative learning experiences, but most notably, his MOOC on digital storytelling, more commonly known as ds106, has had tremendous impact on what we now consider to be possible with global, networked learning. Listening to Jim Groom speak is a lot of fun. However, all of this wasn't just fun for fun sake.

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MOOC VLE LMS Social Media 28

IT Bill

JUNE 2, 2016

This approach to online learning has served to help new-to-online learners navigate the online course, learn to use the most common learning management system (LMS) tools, and interact with their classmates in ways that have modeled the traditional classroom.

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Digital Badges E-rate MOOC LMS 28

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. The LMS A few themes: first, LMSes trying to resemble the modern (i.e., Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. post-2001) web.

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Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? Needless to say, these students are not roaming autodidacts who, left to their own (digital) devices, will thrive and succeed as “free range learners” in a world of MOOCs. We are focused on the advantages of OER-enabled pedagogy.

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

Bryan Alexander

MAY 18, 2022

Moodle – the popular LMS/VLE takes some backend skills to install and host, but can also be accessed from hosting services like MoodleCloud. Sakai – this academic LMS also appears in at least one group’s paid hosting options. Udemy – the MOOC provider may let users create classes there.

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Moodle LMS Sakai VLE 116

Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

In the late 90’s, learning management systems came along and universities said great, now academics don’t need to know any of that technical stuff, they can just use the web interface in the LMS. When we built our first set of online courses in the late 90’s, before we used an LMS, our colleagues asked if the content would be protected.

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E-rate LMS Learning Course 32