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Tonight - A True History of the MOOC

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

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. psid=2012-09-26.0742.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

Edsurge

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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Thursday - Ray McNulty on the Courage to Change Education

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Given that some of these traits lie at the heart of criticisms I''m inclined to make about the non-connectivist MOOC movement and many of the VC-funded ed tech ventures, I can''t wait to discuss this with Ray! psid=2012-12-06.1621.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 Log in at [link].

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. And the approach produced graduates who vastly outperformed cohorts trained using traditional methods.

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A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers: Learning Models & Technology

TeachThought - Learn better.

Livingstone 2001). (13). A Definition for Digital Citizenship (Heick 2012). Informal education or training is distinguished from such self-directed informal learning only by the presence of some form of institutionally-recognized instructor. Learning Simulation. ” (11). Mobile Learning. The Sync Teaching Method by TeachThought.

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Daphne Koller Bids Farewell to Coursera, Hello to Calico

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Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller has ridden the MOOC craze as the company’s CEO and later president. This field has been a passion of mine since 2001, when I first started working on it at Stanford.” Koller co-founded Coursera with machine-learning expert and fellow Stanford professor Andrew Ng in 2012.

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Driverless Ed-Tech: The History of the Future of Automation in Education

Hack Education

In December 2012 – we all remember 2012 right? “The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways.