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Can We Design Online Learning Platforms That Feel More Intimate Than Massive?

Edsurge

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. This presents a challenge and an opportunity: How can we design online learning environments that achieve scale and intimacy? I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs.

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Technology and Casey Green on campus: Future Trends Forum #3, notes and full recording

Bryan Alexander

One present problem is that faculty see low quality digital and/or open education materials, and that the rise in quantity doesn’t necessarily lead to improved quality. For example, MOOCs are still weak on completion and learning, but evolving. study, Going Digital , on faculty attitudes towards digital materials.

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10Q: Shelly Sanchez Terrell

Learning with 'e's

In 2004, I became an English language teacher and taught students from 2 to 80 years-old in the US, Germany, and Greece. Attendees could choose to attend any of the 80 presentations conducted by educators worldwide or watch our 12 inspiring keynote speakers, such as you, Steve! It is basically a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course).

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Remote Work May Transform Higher Education. But Will Printers and Alexa Undermine Its Privacy?

Edsurge

The trend-spotting Horizon Report series is a long-standing tradition—it dates back to 2004, first under the banner of the now-defunct New Media Consortium and then, after 2017, continued independently by its long-time partners: the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) in K-12 and EDUCAUSE in higher education.

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The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Issue a Press Release

Hack Education

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. But I can look at the past and at the present in order to dissect stories about the future. The quotation is from 2012. Inevitable.

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Developing and Delivering Effective Professional Development for Educators

EdTechTeam

Almost everyone present there came armed with a crisp diary, a pen, an iPad, a smartphone or a laptop and of course, a few entered with a favorite coffee mug. In this age of digital transformation, educators may choose from the plethora of online MOOCs which are a convenient and no-travel option. Research Credits: Butler et al.,

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The Rough Beasts of Ed-Tech

Hack Education

” Rebellions and republics – on our minds because of historic events from the past, on our minds because of historic events of the present and the future. It’s also a matter of a $40 million civil suit against Trump University, a business that Donald Trump and two associates founded in 2004. What are we promising?