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The Winners and Filmstrips of An (Almost) Decade in Education Technology

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Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. As for MOOCs, in 2012, the elites in higher education discovered online learning, which many others felt they had already invented and improved over the previous 15 years. OER and open books.

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A Case for Educational Innovation Without ‘Disruption’

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That certainly has been a narrative of anxiety in higher education where existing institutions have been threatened by the technology industry, or by MOOCs, or by some other startup that will come in and potentially replace them. The hype around MOOCs and other disruptive tech at colleges has faded.

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Coursera Raises $130 Million as Colleges Turn to Online Courses for the Fall

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Founded in 2012 by two Stanford University professors, Coursera was one of a trio of startups that spearheaded the hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for short. Most mix and match; they will use courses developed by another institution, but design their own assessments tailored to an instructor’s course. “We

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Dr. Chuck on Inclusive Programming, Online Instructor Involvement and Coursera’s Paywall

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Charles Severance was one of the first professors at the University of Michigan to give the massive open online courses (MOOC) platform Coursera a try. But while Severance—who’s better known by some as Dr. Chuck—says his first MOOC was a success, there was one thing about his in-person classes he missed: seeing his students.

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More Colleges Are Offering Microcredentials—And Developing Them The Way Businesses Make New Products

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If 2012 was “ The Year of the MOOC ”—massive open online courses, usually offered for free—2017 could be “The Year of the Microcredential.” EdX, the nonprofit founded by Harvard University and MIT to offer MOOCs, now lists 40 “MicroMasters” programs from 24 colleges and universities around the world.

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?Are We Recreating Segregated Education Online?

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It’s worth reexamining how we’re recreating these educational walled gardens online—as we move from the heyday of MOOCs in 2012 to the gradual decline of open access courseware in 2017. These are the resources that are typically still free like MOOCs, Khan Academy videos, TED videos, and some adaptive learning platforms.

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Leveling Up Language Learners’ 21st-Century Skills with Minecraft

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We had been working for several weeks on a storytelling unit in my ESL classes in 2012. This involves navigating search engines, identifying key ideas, evaluating and assessing the quality of information and adapting it to the player’s own unique game world context. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube. IrvSpanish.

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