Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Students can communicate peer-to-peer and also engage instructors directly in text, voice, and video, recorded for later access or run immediately in real-time. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) Now in its seventh year, MOOCs crossed the 100 million learner mark, recently hitting 101 million.

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The Principal of Change

MAY 15, 2018

What do you think when you hear the word “access” when it comes to education and our students? At first, when you hear the term “access,” many people think about things like access to technology and the Internet. What about access to high-quality learning opportunities in every classroom?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. Innovations such as stackable non-degree credentials as an on-ramp and low-cost MOOC-based degrees from top universities are likely to only grow access to post-baccalaureate education.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. 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. And I want to do it worldwide.”

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. Well I missed out on writing a review for 2013 so I thought I’d get in reasonably early and write some predictions for what might happen in 2014. The MOOC backlash. Introduction.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. That means that the students then get to access that content asynchronously on their time. Is it sustainable?

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

This week we’re discussing the first chapter of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ). A larger theme, hit more forcefully in the book’s introduction, is broadening access to higher education.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.” DeMillo carries on with several themes. Kindle location 1093).

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 4, 2018

The reason for this is that they have access to so many teachers doing the same job that they are doing. June 28, 2013 The Prophets In Your Land September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! The opportunities in front of us only matter if we take advantage of them.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers. They were accessible and (it) didn’t feel like they were thousands of kilometers away.”. “This isn’t a typical MOOC. The College Board revamped the curriculum in 2013 based on recommendations from the National Research Council and others.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

The positive shifts we have seen in education in the last few years are not because we have access to information. It is because we have access to each other. I have seen a major shift in education in the last few years, that has been greater than my 15 years in education prior. I truly believe that.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. Well I missed out on writing a review for 2013 so I thought I’d get in reasonably early and write some predictions for what might happen in 2014. The MOOC backlash. Introduction.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I count. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. The average completion rate for MOOCs (including the ones I design) hovers between 5-15 percent. This skepticism is not unwarranted.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2013

This is the official call for presentation proposals for the Library 2.013 Worldwide Virtual Conference, October 18 - 19, 2013 (in some time zones the conference will conclude on the 20th). If you missed any of the presentations, you can still access recordings of the presentations.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

Everyone is trying to make education online, but we’ve seen the rise and fall of MOOCs,” says Payne, 32. Alumni can continue to access Microverse’s network of coaches and mentors, Camus says. While many coding bootcamps are done virtually, Heather Payne has kept her operation strictly in person. They’ve got it all wrong.”

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 11, 2016

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 11, “Ivory Towers.”

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 26, 2016

…the true benefit of the academy is the interaction, the access to the debate, to the negotiation of knowledge — not to the stale cataloging of content. George Veletsianos and Royce Kimmons (2013) define open scholarship as “any teaching and research practices that are public and that espouse openness” (p.

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Educator Innovator

APRIL 23, 2014

In the summer of 2013, 15 teachers in Philadelphia gathered around a classroom table at Arcadia University to hack some toys. By Kira Baker-Doyle, Assistant Professor of Education, Arcadia University.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Schmidt, who is the director of learning innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, began issuing non-academic credentials for his team around 2013. Philipp Schmidt began thinking about the potential for blockchain in higher education long before the technology became a buzzword.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

.” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. 2013 – the apps on the phones too big for their pockets. The quotation is from 2012. 2007 – the phones in their pockets.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

An acronym for Massively Open Online Course, a digital course that allows asynchronous access to content. Learning can unfold in a variety of ways: people can use mobile devices to access educational resources, connect with others, or create content, both inside and outside classrooms. How To Create Learning Through Play (Heick 2013).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Please join us for the third annual global conversation about the future of libraries: October 18-19, 2013, [link]. The conference is once again being held entirely online around the clock in multiple languages and time zones. We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

As concerns about “fake news” make clear, Silicon Valley’s influence also extends to how we access information and build knowledge; it extends to the stories we hear and share. Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2013.

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

” Also via NPR : “‘I Hope This Will Set A Precedent,’ Says Trans Teen Who Won Case Over Bathroom Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.”

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MindShift

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In our own time, advocates of online learning promise to level the educational playing fields with massive open online courses, MOOCs. The most compelling evidence for the democratizing power of MOOCs comes from a new generation of Horatio Alger stories, where the video lecture replaces the bootblack’s cloth.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

“The Vastmanland court ruled Tuesday the Malardalen University ’s two-year program ‘Analytical Finance’ that Connie Askenback attended from 2011 to 2013 ‘had no practical value.’” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Politico : Western Governors University , “the nation’s leading provider of competency-based educatio n – which the Education Department’s independent watchdog last month said violated federal student aid rules – is expanding into North Carolina.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Pennsylvania judge has banned fraternity Pi Delta Psi from the state for a decade, a punishment for a hazing death in 2013, and an unprecedented step likely to rock the national Greek system.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account. (I’ll look more closely at discrimination by design – in software and in algorithms – in the final article in this series.)

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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. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) It’s that their parents are opting them out of exposure to these technologies.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Elsewhere in MOOC research… From Campus Technology : “Grouping MOOC Students by Communication Mode Doesn’t Help Completion.” ” More on MOOC (and related) research in the research section below. MOOCs losing their mojo?

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “By taking about a third of the program’s multi-billion-dollar surplus and cutting other college access programs, [advocates for low-income students] assert, the new administration would jeopardize Pell’s long-term sustainability and harm the prospects of low-income students.” Are MOOCs webinars?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

But the New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman certainly saw otherwise, as was clear in his statement : In 2013, my office sued Donald Trump for swindling thousands of innocent Americans out of millions of dollars through a scheme known as Trump University. The President-Elect refused to accept any wrongdoing.

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Randall filed the suit in 2013, eight months after the university fired basketball coach Mike Rice’s for mistreating his players.” Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. ” KickUp has raised $1.54

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) Remember Richard McKenzie?

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