2015 Assessment MOOC Report 
Edsurge
DECEMBER 20, 2017
At a recent meeting of educational technology policy advisors, a well-informed university CIO casually declared that MOOCs were history. Increasingly, MOOCs are being packaged into series of courses with a non-degree credential being offered to those who successfully complete the series.
TeachThought - Learn better.
MAY 12, 2020
In 2015, someone asked me what I thought about innovation in higher ed in an email, so I responded with a couple of hundred words, which I added to in creating this short blog post. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. by Terry Heick.
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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.
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”.
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.
The Hechinger Report
JULY 1, 2018
Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. We discuss their goals and what they are working on, and if they had an assessment we might talk about that,” she said. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. DALLAS — In December 1997, a sixth-grader at Dan D.
Edsurge
JANUARY 10, 2017
billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. Following Edtech Money (in-depth report on U.S. He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) It’s an observation borne, perhaps, out of his experience working with Smarterer, a skills assessment platform that was.
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