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Online Learning's 'Greatest Hits'

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Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes. Online learning is not just another edtech product, but an innovative teaching practice." The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) In some conventional courses, MOOCs also supplement on-campus curricula.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. This approach helps you clarify your target outcomes and how you’ll collect “evidence of learning.” Udemy has also created a great toolkit to help online course instructors market their learning experience. Surely a lot has changed!

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‘Our Technology Is Our Ideology’: George Siemens on the Future of Digital Learning

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A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ”) It was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2013, on the heels of “the Year of the MOOC,” Barber released a report titled “An Avalanche is Coming,” calling for the “unbundling” of higher education. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Founded by two educators in 2008, Edmodo experienced a number of leadership changes this decade.

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