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

JUNE 29, 2021

The deal is a sign that the once-distinct lines between MOOCs, online degree programs and on-campus programs have blurred, argues Sean Gallagher, founder and executive director of Northeastern University’s Center for the Future of Higher Education and Talent Strategy. 2U is all about strategy,” he added.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

MOOC companies typically account for the bump in the “Post-Secondary” category, but aside from Coursera’s $64 million Series D round, few other companies focused in higher education scored a large deal. In the past, publishers such as Pearson and McGraw-Hill were counted on to be the exit strategy. Source: EdSurge.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

However, it is the responsibility of organizational leaders to develop the communication strategies and messages that others will deliver to the constituencies. 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

JUNE 9, 2020

Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. The second is to improve strategies for how students take in that information and retain it. The Acuitus strategy that has evolved over 20 years involves mixing a digital tutor with in-person instructors. That’s referred to as the cognitive aspect.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

Inspired from his own confusion figuring out the best strategy for repaying his debt, Bethancourt has built an app to show people how much money they save by paying certain loans before others. Juno College of Technology is the new name of a school known as HackerYou since its founding in 2012. They’ve got it all wrong.”

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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. But what does bother me a bit is the suggestion that OERs have not been primarily (and very intentionally) marketed as a cost saving strategy for years now.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

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. Joshua Kim, director of online programs and strategy at Dartmouth’s Center for the Advancement of Learning, calls Penn an outlier.

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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. Dayhana Sanchez Cuevas “This is a very interesting way for people all around the world to participate in real time to develop ideas, strategies, perspectives, methods and direction in any aspect of education. The world is indeed flat."

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. According to differentiation expert Dr. Carol Tomlinson, differentiation is not a teaching strategy, but rather a way of thinking about learning. ” (6).

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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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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Revolution sees 2012 as a critical year (“the Magic Year”) when forces really came together, including, but not limited to, MOOCs. I followed up by asking which strategies the academic elite will use to maintain the system it presides over for the next decade. General Q+A.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 30, 2011

EPCOP MOOC INTRO WEBINAR ( Australia Series ) Mon 1 Aug 09:00PM New York / Tue 2 Aug 01:00AM GMT / Tue 2 Aug 11:00AM Sydney Coach Carole. A repeat intro to the EpCoP MOOC has been scheduled for August 2 to suit a new influx of registered participants and for those in other time zones who could not attend the first one.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

“Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. Photo-sharing service Instagram had 13 employees when it was acquired for $1 billion by Facebook in 2012. Ignoring corporate and consumer dependency on an on-demand gig workforce is not a sustainable strategy. Only “1.86

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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. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called badges a “game-changing strategy.”. Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless.

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Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ Coursera Removes Biometric Identity Verification Using Keystroke Matching,” Class Central reports. ” Ng is, of course, the co-founder of the MOOC startup Coursera. . “ Predator Colleges May Thrive Again,” says The New York Times Editorial Board.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Inside Higher Ed on online education at Simmons College. More on MOOC and online education research in the research section below. Via Edsurge : “What Colleges Should Know About A Growing ‘ Talent Strategy ’ Push By Companies.” ”). .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? ” Remember in 2012 when Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun predicted that in fifty years, “there will be only 10 institutions in the world delivering higher education and Udacity has a shot at being one of them”?

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “The Future of MOOCs Might Not Be Free ,” suggests Education Week’s Market Brief with an observation that many of us made back in 2012. .” More in the sports section below on falsifying college athletes’ test scores.

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