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For Best Results, Pair MOOCs With In-Person Support

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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) transfixed higher education in the early 2010s, so much so that The New York Times dubbed 2012 "The Year of the MOOC." At the time, many thought MOOCs might become a replacement for both classroom instruction and ingrained models of learning. It’s easy to see why.

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2U’s ‘Third Chapter’ Begins With a $750M Acquisition of Trilogy Education

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Chip Paucek, CEO and co-founder of 2U “When we think about the trajectory of a learner, from college to a masters program to a MOOC or to a bootcamp, there is a lot of opportunity for universities to play a role across that spectrum and reinvent themselves,” Paucek tells EdSurge in an interview. “If

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Video for learning: Today and tomorrow

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I was studying at college and a man in a white coat wheeled a television and video player into the room. Video plays an important role in all of these alternative modes of learning experience (Brame, 2015) and will continue to do so with future developments. The first time I saw video being used in a classroom was in 1973. Parlour, A.

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So Much More Than Letters and Numbers

The Principal of Change

Teachers would tell me at conferences what I needed to help my son with, they would tell me how he was behaving and everything they did in class, like what they were studying,” said Carolina Rosales, a mother of two elementary-school kids. IMMOOC April 21, 2017 Focus on the “Learner”

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From “Data Driven” to “Evidence Driven”

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If this same assessment was given in 6 different grade 9 classes, each of whom have studied different things and had different class discussions, the responses would be very individual and very much a demonstration of their own learning of course materials.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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If they are right, it would mean short-circuiting the famous “10,000-hour rule” based on studies by education researcher Anders Ericsson and popularized by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.” About once a day, all the students gather with a human instructor for a brief in-person lesson known as “study hall.”

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Income Share Agreements Dominate Y Combinator’s Latest Education Graduates

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Blair While studying abroad at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Mike Mahlkow saw how financing American education differs from that of his home country of Germany. Zia founded the company, originally called Murcul, in October 2017 in Hong Kong. Here’s a look at the latest edtech crop. They’ve got it all wrong.”

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