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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. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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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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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders

Tom Murray

FI conducts research, develops educational resources, provides high quality professional learning programs for educators including leadership massive open online courses (MOOCs), advocates to improve teaching and learning, and helps inform policy-making at a regional and national level.

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Announcing the Library 2.017 "Makerspaces" Mini-Conference and Call for Proposals.

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

She obtained her PhD in Information Science from the University of North Texas in 2001 and taught in the Department of Library and Information Studies at the State University of New York in Buffalo from 2001-2008 before joining the SLIS in August 2008. She also held professional positions in public and special libraries.

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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! From 2001-03, he served as Vermont''s education commissioner. psid=2012-12-06.1621.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. post-2001) web. Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. The hype bubble burst in America, but other countries seem to be interested.

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Many New Ideas are Quite Old

Mistakengoal.com

Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation. ” That quote comes from a 2001 Chronicle of Higher Education article but the thought has been expressed by many people. Of course, the broad threads of these worries are quite old.

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