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Twitterize Adult Learning | A MOOC-Ed Experience

The PL2C Blog

In the spring of 2014, a team from the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation launched to first rendition of a Massive Open Online Course for Educators (MOOC-Ed), titled Coaching Digital Learning | Cultivating a Culture of Change (CDL). 73% of the MOOC-Ed participants indicated the Twitter Chats as Valuable or higher.

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COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Digital Blending of Working and Learning

Edsurge

Learning in The Flow of Work—Wherever Work May Be Just as COVID-19 has blurred the work and home lives of many, it is further blurring the boundaries between learning and working. It seems certain that more professional learning will happen outside of traditional institutions and campuses – especially if colleges fail to adapt.

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Online PD Courses Help Educators Understand Ed-Tech, Classroom Management, Study Finds

Marketplace K-12

Of these, 75 percent took online and/or blended courses because they have a personal interest in the topic, or hoped to gain additional knowledge about it, the 2016 SIIA Vision K-20 Professional Learning Survey found. The report was released exclusively to EdWeek Market Brief today, and will be given wider distribution Tuesday.

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US Edtech Investments Peak Again With $1.45 Billion Raised in 2018

Edsurge

Companies whose products serve preschool and professional learning sectors also raised $350 million (represented as the “Other” category in the graph below). Once upon a time, she notes, “MOOCs were supposed to displace higher education. Now many MOOCs are embedded within these institutions. billion invested in 2018, U.S.

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The Fans, Fanboys, and Fanatics of OER

Doug Levin

I don’t fret much at all over some of what Clark raises: the acceptance and/or lack of broader cheer-leading for Wikipedia, MOOCs, or Khan Academy as success stories. I’m aware of some nascent efforts along these lines, but would love to learn more if others are pursuing a related path in the U.S.

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

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. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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4 Questions to Lay the Foundation for a “Culture of Innovation”

The Principal of Change

Are people more likely to complain after a professional learning meeting, than in one? What does the time look like in staff meetings or professional learning time? To our students, colleagues, community, and direct reports. Are people scared to challenge ideas in fear of retribution?

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