The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Without a University Involved.).

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

The aspects of games that make them enjoyable are used in a classroom setting, such as player control, opportunities for leveling up, immediate feedback, and social connection. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning. This means that the course takes place online, is free, and anyone can participate.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

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. That’s the case for Davis, who for several years was a producer of video classes for HarvardX, Harvard’s MOOC production wing. “I

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s won a national teacher-of-the-year award and his viral videos about education earned him praise from Wired magazine. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says. Wesch posts videos of himself doing the "challenges" he poses to his students.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. From Zoom to Skype to Webinars and even live streaming on social media itself, video is perhaps the most visible and common form of technological innovation in K-12 and higher ed. Video, of course, enables other innovations. We shall see. An example?

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

Technology topics included social media, video, 3d printing, VR, internet of things, automation, and privacy. In discussion we touched on cognitive computing, “quick” (live or easily published) video (Kat’s term), video growing on mobile devices. Participants spoke to early childhood computing.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

They are only a small group of a dozen students, but over the last few months, my elearning module group has created a very large amount of content, including blogs, wiki pages and videos. Their task would be to create a new wiki page, and begin to populate it with resources related to MOOCs.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

“I could see that my students were distracted by social media during the lecture. Sharma has a background in technology and video production (he actively researches and writes about educational technology and knowledge translation) led him to consider how to bridge that divide. The TED Talk folks got it right,” he says.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 7, 2013

Social media sites such as Twitter span huge distances to connect people around the world. There are many stories of people developing and sustaining friendship, or even romance and eventual marriage, after ''meeting'' on a social media site. Distance Education social media relationships MOOCs Twitter FaceBook'

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The first question is the following: How many of you in this room go onto your personal social media while you are working? September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC June 28, 2018 3 Ways to Develop a Shared Path Toward One Vision November 21, 2016 The Mantra of An Innovative Educator (Video).

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 18, 2015

While late-night video chats have their own challenges, that course gave me plenty of opportunities to hear directly from each student and encourage collaboration and discussion. Adopt strategies from MOOCs and other large-scale courses. With increased pressure on classroom spaces, many departments are moving courses online.

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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. Video One friend insists on telling me that “video is the new paper,” which drives me crazy, but is also a good probe for making us think about just how much people love video.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 21, 2017

I saw a link for an interesting video on “accelerating learning” for students and was intrigued simply by the title. September 15, 2016 The Arrows Go Back and Forth #IMMOOC September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! When people, of all ages, feel valued, they are more likely to move forward.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Swivl - Apparatus that lets you use an iPad to video record a lecture or presentation. Use every bit of social media that you can.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 10, 2012

Just look at her profile: She is a teacher trainer, author, and international speaker, is the host of American TESOL’s Free Friday Webinars and the Social Media Community Manager for The Consultants-E. What does social media mean to you? Participants can attend via a live video conference or in Second Life.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Many of these companies were launched circa 2013 — that is, in the tailwinds of "the Year of the MOOC," with the belief that an increasing number of students would be learning online and that professors would demand some sort of mechanism to verify their identity and their integrity. Who's cheating the time-clock, that is.

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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. He featured a bizzare YouTube video of 'Dr Oblivion' introducing ds106.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

We would argue our students read and write more now than they ever have before—between texting, social media, gaming, and everything else they do in their digitally fueled, online lives. is a platform that allows students to take notes synchronized with video. We rarely give the process, as a whole, meaningful context.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

The five projects are listed below, and each links to a project group on the conference site--please join one or more and then let us know how Lucy and I can help turn these into realities!

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EdTechTeacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

To kick off this event, Alec Couros ( @courosa ), Associate Professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina is giving the opening keynote. One day, Alec says that he tweeted out that he was thinking of starting a MOOC. Within a short time, he had over 2000 participants from 75 countries.

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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.). Online learning is on the rise.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Starting “ The Innovator’s Mindset ” MOOC this week ( #IMMOOC ), a lot of people are jumping into blogging, and many people are reluctant and nervous. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Rightfully so. It can be a daunting task. Many people focus on the technologies on the outside.

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Learners using them will rely on social media and video to collaborate in the learning process. These course segments will be made by distributed teams and consist of rich multimedia.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Here we go… First off I get the audio from my YouTube video using a service like ClipConverter. Then, I google it and a kid who is probably under 12 years old makes a video that explains something to me that saved me hours of time. Problem is I do not know how to make a podcast. Try and try again and nothing. Was I embarrassed?

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

I’m especially interested in social media that can be used to go beyond the often institutional centric LMS systems. Steve: Massive Open Online Courses are currently a major focus of attention for academic, corporates and even governments, and indeed have been covered extensively by the media recently.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” “Many are never the same.”

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

The illustrious history of teaching students at a distance has embraced each new technology as it appeared, from printed text, through telephone, radio and television, CDs and videos cassettes, to modern day, digital age technologies such as mobile phones, the internet and direct satellite broadcasting. We can look back and take stock.

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MindShift

AUGUST 6, 2018

Watch a dance video or listen to your favorite song. Or spend another “few minutes” on social media. Dr. Oakley teaches two massive open online courses (MOOCs), “ Learning How to Learn ” (the world’s most popular course) and “Mindshift” alongside legendary neuroscientist Terrence Sejnowski. . You can do it!

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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.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Before we get started, take a look at this video to learn a bit about the concept behind flipped classrooms and concerns they are meant to solve. It’s beneficial for teachers because, Children will often be gaining their knowledge from sources other than the teacher, such as through the use of existing YouTube video.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Kaltura (video) – $166.1 Or one could look at ed-tech companies that laid off staff: the coding bootcamp Galvanize , the analytics company Civitas Learning , the learning management system Schoology , MOOC provider Coursera , the education giant Pearson , for example. Age of Learning (educational apps) – $181.5

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

We can hope that a long list of courses in a drop down menu format will be shelved in favor of a user-friendly interface full of video, engaging content and search engines that allow learners to find the most relevant information they need in the online space. More and more, learners are advocating for themselves in this respect.

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Many punk educators are finding viable and for them, more acceptable alternatives to proprietary software, structured courses and closed journals, and instead are devoting their energy to creating new approaches including open software, open courses (including the original C-MOOCs) and open publishing with free tools.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

Netflix took a more radical move, switching away from its old business model (sending out rental DVDs by post) to a new one (streaming on-demand video to its customers). Increasingly formal use of social media by education institutions. Rapid change in the demands for media forms (e.g., MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 30, 2014

Learn more about web literacy– watch this video featuring Chris Lawrence, Senior Director of Hive Learning Networks and the Webmaker Mentor Community. Remix Animated GIF Music Videos. Punk A Friend : Use X-Ray Goggles to remix a friend’s social media profile, their favorite web site, or a news article. Make a meme.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Ten Conversations Submit a Video or Quote Updates Next week: CoSN Conference in Washington DC. First up: 3D prosthetic hands Scientists work on backing up human brain with computers A MOOC MYSTERY: WHERE DO ONLINE STUDENTS GO?

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