The Principal of Change

JANUARY 9, 2018

In my career, I have seen more and more how assessment often drives teaching, not the other way around. ” May 7, 2015 Questions to Drive Growth #3QuestionsEDU September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! I hear “We value collaboration!”

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In my last post, “Common Assessments” vs “Common Understandings” , I was reminded of how powerful comments are on a blog, and why blogging is a hugely powerful tool for not only sharing your learning, but learning from others. 2 What I think we mean is that we are looking for “common understandings”, not “common assessments”.

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Data Assessment Differentiated Instruction MOOC 77

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015. The chart below shows how the first half of 2019 compares to the averages posted for each type of round during the full years of 2015 to 2018.

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EdTech Coursera Knewton Analysis 141

Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Our final #EDENchat of 2015 focused on new learning environments, namely MOOCs, flipped classrooms and blended learning methods. Those who participated shared their experiences of MOOCs and flipped learning both as teachers and as learners.

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MOOC E-rate Blended Learning Flipped Classroom 28

The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

This type of assessment is not about understanding what a students knows and reporting on it, but it is a tool used for learning. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Many students are smart enough that they know how to meet the objectives of a rubric and still not grow much in their learning.

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MOOC Assessment Meeting Report 60

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

As he started to design MEDSKL in 2015, Sharma realized he didn’t feel comfortable lecturing on topics outside his focus area—so he asked colleagues for help. MRU courses also include discussion forums and practice assessments.

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Khan Academy MOOC Flipped Classroom Trends 65

The Principal of Change

JULY 13, 2017

Don’t get this mixed up with the idea that I do not believe we shouldn’t teach students content or have some type of standardized assessments. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! There is more to life than “test scores”, and school should be no different.

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MOOC Google Assessment Strategy 42

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) He also believes the market is also moving towards tools that bundle assessment and content, rather than being offered as separate products. Venture capital for U.S.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

The evidence of learning and growth as a human being goes beyond what any test score or academic assessment can provide. December 16, 2016 4 Non-Negotiables for Schools June 18, 2015 Personalize, Not Standardize September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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Conference MOOC Elementary Assessment 71

IT Bill

JUNE 2, 2016

However, with emerging deliver models such as Competency-based Educational (CBE) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) gaining traction in higher education, it may make sense to consider student autonomy in the design of online learning. Pina (2015) Using Transactional Distance Theory to inform online instructional design.

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Digital Badges E-rate MOOC LMS 28

Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Assessing the Travel Ban : What New Data on Overseas Recruitment Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us.” More on certifications in the MOOC section above. ” Education in the Courts.

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MOOC Education Robotics Company 57

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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MOOC Coursera Course Comparison 140

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples. Which is dumb. And anymore, they end being the punchline of edtech jokes, somehow.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

In 2015 the University of Michigan established the Digital Innovation Greenhouse (DIG) as part of the Office Of Academic Innovation—a group charged with fostering a culture of innovation in learning in order to reimagine the 21st century public research university. Provide links between research and practice.

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Advocacy Software MOOC Learning Analytics 60

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary became one of five schools in the Dallas Independent School District to pilot personalized learning in 2015-16, principal Lisa Lovato said she and her team grappled with decisions on granular issues, such as “How long should it take a kindergartner to log into a computer?” Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

Her previous company, Blynk, was acquired by Canadian instant messaging company Kik in 2015. Everyone is trying to make education online, but we’ve seen the rise and fall of MOOCs,” says Payne, 32. The school doesn’t assess students with letter grades and has grown to 80 schools throughout Arizona. They’ve got it all wrong.”

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Education Company MOOC Course 116

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 24, 2019

As an online educator she developed and offered a MOOC for the SJSU iSchool, and she coordinated two Library 2.0 online conferences, The Emerging Future (2015) and Blockchain (2018). He is best known for his ALA 2015 book, Library Security, and his programs on library safety and security. in Security Management, a B.S.

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Libraries Advocacy Social Media MOOC 28

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? And I want to do it worldwide.”

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

We''re about to announce three additional conferences for 2015: Maker Education, Reinventing Higher Ed, and Digital Citizenship. The call for proposals is open until September 1st , so please share this opportunity with your colleagues. See you there! Mix Up Your Classroom Library.

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Google Game-Based Learning Libraries Conference 52

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Schools Improvement (@SchoolsImprove) February 10, 2015. Same with a school or curriculum or assessment. In 2015, it’s breathtaking. The scale of learning for one child–or in my case, three–suggests new paradigms for the process, content, and forms of learning of learning in 2015. Like school, then?

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Khan Academy Libraries MOOC eBook 40

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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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 company has raised some $77.5

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

These taxonomies can be used to plan units, lessons, assessments, and other teaching and learning processes. TeachThought is developing a mobile learning framework and definition that will be released in early 2015. Mastery Learning. ” “Mastery learning is used in order to advance an individual’s potential for learning.

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Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

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. In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. The quotation is from 2012.

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Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Students like Battushig who used free online courses to achieve world-class education motivated players like Coursera and the State Department to launch initiatives like Learning Hubs and MOOC camps from Vietnam to Bolivia. Are there viable edtech opportunities in so-called bottom-of-the-pyramid markets? . primary and secondary education.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

For successful outcomes, plan teacher PD sessions avoiding holidays, weekends, extended school days and reporting/ assessment cycles. In this age of digital transformation, educators may choose from the plethora of online MOOCs which are a convenient and no-travel option. Research Credits: Butler et al.,

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Education MOOC Training Udemy 47

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

To their credit, both of the leading commercial MOOCs—Udacity and Coursera—have undertaken significant pivots to their initially flawed business models. As documented by Dale Russakoff in her compelling 2015 book “The Prize,” the Newark initiative was disastrous, leaving little to show for the massive investment.

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Education Coursera Policies MOOC 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51

Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

Many punk educators are finding viable and for them, more acceptable alternatives to proprietary software, structured courses and closed journals, and instead are devoting their energy to creating new approaches including open software, open courses (including the original C-MOOCs) and open publishing with free tools.

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MOOC VLE Learning Social Media 28

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 23, 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 4, “Technology Curves.”

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Education MOOC Learning Analytics Data 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via KPCC : “ Ref Rodriguez has given up the role of president of the Los Angeles Unified School Board – but is not resigning his seat on the board altogether – one week after the announcement he’d face felony charges for alleged campaign finance violations during his 2015 run for office.”

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Education Knewton Kaplan Robotics 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” Microsoft acquired Minecraft in 2015 – which probably speaks volumes right there about its progressive potential – and in January of this year, Microsoft bought TeacherGaming, the maker of a Minecraft version aimed at classroom usage. .” We’ve seen this before in the MOOC world. See: the LMS, the MOOC.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. Perhaps with this data, the MOOC providers can build a map of professional if not cognitive pathways. Let me begin with a story. What do we read as signs of intelligence?

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Education Robotics MOOC Company 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive. “ MOOCs Find a New Audience with On-Campus Students,” Edsurge claims. ” Via the ACT press release : “ ACT to Deliver Assessment for the Moral Education Program to Students in the UAE.”

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Education Chegg MOOC Robotics 55

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

2015 was a record-setting year for investment in education technology, with some $4 billion flowing into the industry globally. This is part of the push for MOOCs, we must be honest.). “Students build content knowledge by working at their own pace and take assessments on demand,” the Summit website says.

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Trends Company MOOC Edmodo 64