Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Until lately, those online MIT courses have somewhat resembled so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs, says Clara Piloto, director of global programs at MIT Professional Education. Now, as MOOCs have evolved to court professional audiences , so too have MIT’s efforts to harness companies and organizations.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When free online courses known as MOOCs began to take off in 2012 , their pitch to investors often included jargon around “disrupting” the way education is accessed and consumed. We are realizing that the vast reach of MOOCs makes them a powerful gateway to degrees,” Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda said in a statement.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

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. psid=2012-09-26.0742.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

Minerva is a for-profit company that has raised more than $119 million since its founding in 2012, and it provides online-education services and curriculum. Nelson says the new version of the system lets professors quickly divide a large class into groups of up to 12 students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Without a University Involved.).

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2020

Previous investors Kleiner Perkins, SEEK Group, Learn Capital, SuRo Capital Corp, and G Squared also participated. 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. based company an estimated $2.5

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges. While attention around MOOCs has died down, the company seems to have found a business model for free courses with something it calls Specializations.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2019

The round was led by Australia-based SEEK Group, which invests in and scales online employment and education businesses; existing investors Future Fund and NEA also participated. The Mountain View, Calif.-based based company has now raised a total of $314 million, according to Crunchbase.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

We had been working for several weeks on a storytelling unit in my ESL classes in 2012. Yet, one group was struggling for ideas. That excitement was always communicated around my group very quickly and with a remarkable degree of fluency. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube. I needed to intervene. IrvSpanish.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The self-driving car program, launched last September, currently has 10,000 students enrolled (from 42,000 applicants), and the first cohort from this group is set to graduate on Oct. Founded in 2012, Udacity initially sought to work with universities as a provider of massive online open courses (MOOCs). Sorry, Peter.)

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

Allison Salisbury: Here at EdSurge we’ve watched and admired as groups from Student Voice to Young Invincibles grow in power and visibility, emboldening students to speak up and speak out. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Try building a MOOC to meet that challenge—I’d love to read about it!

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

They’re about a decade behind their university counterparts, who helped to found edX in 2012 , the same year that startup Coursera launched its competing service, now worth millions. Community colleges are staking a claim in the territory of online course marketplaces.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

For group or other purchases, please email steve@learningrevolution.com.) To submit a purchase order, or with any registration difficulties, questions, or interest in group rates, contact steve@learningrevolution.com. As an online educator she developed and offered a MOOC for the SJSU iSchool, and she coordinated two Library 2.0

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

Hatchways is on its second cohort of 20 students, having already graduated a group of 10. Juno College of Technology is the new name of a school known as HackerYou since its founding in 2012. Everyone is trying to make education online, but we’ve seen the rise and fall of MOOCs,” says Payne, 32. They’ve got it all wrong.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Last year, MOOC providers announced about 30 new online degrees. This wave of activity and spending by MOOC providers and universities gave me a feeling of deja vu: it reminded me of the 2012 MOOC hype. That is why I called the rise of online degrees the second wave of MOOC-hype and 2018, the year of MOOC-based degrees.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. Imagine students in a control group go from 50% on a pre-test to 60% on a post-test, whereas in the treatment group they go from 50% to 80%,” he explains. For him, improving the speed of learning is just part of it.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

What lessons can be learned from the rise and pivot of MOOCs, those large-scale online courses that proponents said would disrupt higher education? At the start of the MOOC trend in 2012, the promise was that the free online courses could reach students who could not afford or get access to other forms of higher education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

Education rewards patience, and one investor group has re-upped its coffers. He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) Following Edtech Money (in-depth report on U.S. funding) Can Investors Make Money and Do Good in Education? Although dealflow has plateaued, the pot of available capital continues to grow.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 10, 2013

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update December 10th Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Based on the feedback of the attendees, the five most popular project ideas have been turned into groups that you can find on the Global Education Conference site. Labs and its partners.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2017

Since the New York Times named 2012 the year of massive open online courses (MOOCs), millions have flocked to platforms offering them such as edX and Coursera. The six-week long MOOC will touch on topics including open educational resources (OER), open pedagogy and practice, open knowledge and open research. George Siemens.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 12, 2017

In a conversation I was having with a group today, I threw out the idea of “creating something of value” Sites like etsy.com , are an opportunity to sell things have an access to a large market, but what makes something sell? In 2011, nearly 75 million youth aged 15 to 24 were unemployed worldwide.

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Wired Campus

MARCH 10, 2015

In 2011 it began offering online summer courses to small groups of undergraduates for credit. In 2013 it joined with Coursera and started building MOOCs. Other top-tier universities have created online versions of their professional-degree programs, which is something Yale noticed when taking stock of its online presence in 2012.

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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.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Remember Edmodo? They’re amazing.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 24, 2019

To submit a purchase order, or with any registration difficulties, questions, or interest in group rates, contact steve@learningrevolution.com. As an online educator she developed and offered a MOOC for the SJSU iSchool, and she coordinated two Library 2.0 Registering for one of the Library 2.0

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? We are focused on the advantages of OER-enabled pedagogy.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Some in this elite group of colleges—specifically Princeton and Yale—offer no online degree at all. And in the past ten years these colleges have been active in offering so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, which are free or low-cost courses, usually for no official credit. What, I wondered, accounts for the reticence?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

NovoEd traces its roots to Stanford University, where engineering professor Amin Saberi and Farnaz Ronaghi, then a PhD student, launched their first online course in 2012. NovoEd has tried to differentiate itself from the crowd by designing its platform to facilitate small-group interactions and project-based assignments.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

From the 2012 GlobalEdCon attendees: "This conference is a great example on what global means. Debbie Gaskins “This is an inspiring conference and school districts should be telling their teachers about it and offering professional development for attending online and presenting in groups at school. The world is indeed flat."

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Join our project reference group, to help evaluate the resources we make for the project to help families, educators and stakeholders raise children multilingually. Engaging and Inspiring Leaders and Learners - Virtual Event. Engaging and Inspiring Leaders and Learners - Virtual Event. Calling multilingual families to participate.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In short, differentiation is the process of personalizing universal learning goals for groups of students. objectives, content, means and processes of acquisition, duration, evaluation of outcomes, applications) are determined by the individuals and groups that choose to engage in it. A Definition for Digital Citizenship (Heick 2012).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own.

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 28, 2015

I’ve been working for some time on ideas of inclusion & ( in)equality in open education, and of the possibility of a postcolonial MOOC (with Shyam Sharma ), and gathering ideas from others on how to envision a more inclusive, diverse and equitable open online learning experience. Putting Ideas into Practice.

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I’ve been working for some time on ideas of inclusion & ( in)equality in open education, and of the possibility of a postcolonial MOOC (with Shyam Sharma ), and gathering ideas from others on how to envision a more inclusive, diverse and equitable open online learning experience. Putting Ideas into Practice.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

OER ranges from highly structured college courses (MOOCs) to less structured curricula from colleges and other institutes of learning (OpenCourseWare a/k/a OCW), to free online textbooks, and everything in between. PIRG Panelist Nicole Allen discussed her work as Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)’s Textbook Advocate.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The biggest chain of for-profit colleges that is still overseen by an accreditation group axed by the Obama administration – and given a second chance by Betsy DeVos – failed this month in its initial bid to get recognition elsewhere.” MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Or on this.

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