Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

FutureLearn launched with a dozen university partners in 2012, the same year that other MOOC platform providers—namely Coursera, edX and Udacity—also launched and whose growth have somewhat overshadowed FutureLearn’s (at least here among U.S. In 2017, it enlisted five U.S. audiences). Despite its U.K. universities onto its platform.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Sophia Joffe, a high school senior who launched a database for enriched remote learning, at her family’s home in Thornhill, Ontario, Canada. Guiding high school peers through online learning maze. As the coronavirus pandemic intensified in March, Sophia Joffe’s school in Toronto nimbly transitioned to remote learning.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

Still, as more rural schools look to virtual programs for help, there’s little evidence that online learning is equal to or can exceed outcomes from traditional in-person instruction, and some experts are urging caution — along with greater attention to quality. Department of Education, students took 317,000 online courses.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

The heyday for massive open online courses was studded with hype. So much so, the New York Times even dubbed 2012 the “ Year of the MOOC.” Such a model assumes a deficit of knowledge in other parts of the world and a belief that non-Western parts of the world have less or even nothing to contribute to online learning.

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Learning Confluence

JULY 1, 2018

Here are some essential artefacts to learn from in the meantime. When designing online learning consideration should be given to how a community can be built around subject content and objectives and how students will interact with the academic and with each other. Harasim, 2017). Digital Learning Environments.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. This community in rural Lewis County made headlines in 2017 when all 43 of its graduating seniors were accepted into two- or four-year colleges. 43 — The number of students in Onalaska High School’s 2017 graduating class.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. You can argue that because of that, you get some more-mature course designs, but it’s not the same as scalability.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Online learning makes it more difficult for students and teachers to form close, one-on-one relationships. When I, Jaiden, entered high school in 2017, I had just started identifying as transgender, and it was scary. Though this pressure affects everyone, we have found it particularly difficult as LGBTQ+ students.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. with Pigeons.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

She’s the co-founder and co-editor of the Journal of Online Learning Research , which publishes peer-reviewed studies about K-12 online education. Indeed, developing “a teaching force skilled in online and blended instruction” is one of the recommendations in the U.S. Sometimes we have to really recruit manuscripts.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Take Milpitas Unified School District in the San Francisco Bay Area, which proposed a bond measure to pay for technology remodeling school spaces back in 2012. Educators can apply between January 15 and April 15, 2017. Applications are due May 5, 2017. It eventually passed —a total of $95 million.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

But after cutting assets ranging from the company’s stake in The Economist to PowerSchool, a student information system, Pearson finally reported a profit again in 2017. Does Online Education Help Low-income Students Succeed? In 2016, the company reported its largest loss in its history, down $3.3

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The program he’s referring to is an online learning platform, Edgenuity. During the 2016-17 school year, 71 schools in the state used online learning platforms, according to the Mississippi Department of Education. Online learning platforms like that where you don’t have a teacher just scream, ‘Nobody cares about you.’”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

His schools have been scrambling to set up online learning, connect students with virtual counseling and get laptops into the hands of families — steps McKneely says will be invaluable if another hurricane disrupts education. “We The Miami-Dade school district, for example, adopted a plan back in 2012 to close the digital divide.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A lot has changed since 2012 or, the year the New York Times dubbed the "Year of the MOOC." The premise back then was that classes would make high-quality online education accessible for all—and for free. Udacity ended 2017 with 500 employees, but they had layoffs, and ended 2018 with 330 employees.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Central Valley School District administrators envisioned such a shift when they decided to begin swapping paper textbooks for iPads in the 2012-13 school year. The district provides a personal iPad for every teacher, middle and high school student, and teachers’ lessons include a mix of purchased and free online resources.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Then, without missing a beat, she switched the smartboard display and launched into a multiple-choice quiz using a game-based online learning platform called Kahoot! Starting in 2012, an idea floated around Alaska that seemed sort of preposterous. Phase one was completed in 2017 and cost a reported $250 million.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Colorado vendors and school districts are required by the state to facilitate safe online learning experiences. Since then, he has had a long and successful career, taking on more challenging roles along the way, ultimately becoming the superintendent of Norman Public Schools in 2017. The company was sold to Jostens, Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2019

But since 2012 that number is up by 9 percent — a bright spot for a sector that lost 19 percent of its overall enrollment during that time. The nonprofit says 70,000 students in 120 countries participated in 2017-18, and every year they wrap up their projects by taking action.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2017

In March, MissionU, a new 12-month college alternative combining in-person and online learning, opened applications for its first major, Data Analytics + Business Intelligence. The best estimate is from a 2012 federal survey that found one-quarter of adults had licenses, certifications and/or educational certificates.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

in theoretical physics, he retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, after 13 years there including a year in 2012 as Visiting Professor at MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. In 2004, she started her Rethinking Learning blog in My eCoach.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Since 2017, Janessa has served their tribes as Library Media Technician Senior operating three libraries. She has worked for Yates County since 2012. But where do busy library people go for learning when they are doing more than ever before in a world impacted by a global pandemic? Janessa Esquivel (they/them) is a s?np??ilx

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

One other company that rode the wave of the MOOC revolution back in 2012 was MasterClass which offers online classes “from the best,” as its PR puts it. Most faculty agree that online learning makes higher education available to more students, but few agree that online learning helps students learn more effectively.”

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