Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. ” Because that’s where things seem to be headed in 2015.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In one session, a participant discussed that we need to change the terminology from “Data Driven” to “Evidence Driven” The former term often is connected with numbers, where “evidence driven”, is much more open.

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Perry Hewitt

JULY 3, 2015

Pew has released a new report on Americans’ internet access 2000-2015. The first few years of widespread access to MOOCs have created a data trove for researchers. The first one: MOOC students are diverse, but trend toward autodidacts. Class and educational attainment remain access factors but are shrinking.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 26, 2015

” On his blog, EdTechResearcher , Justin says this video has “some good reflections on learning analytics, data, MOOCs, testing, pyschometrics, and more with a nice balance of humility and optimism. ” Join Justin and the rest of EdTechTeacher in Boston November 16-18th, 2015. ettipad.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

Arizona State University started the Global Freshman Academy with edX in 2015 to offer students a way to complete their first year of college online at a far lower cost than traditional enrollment. She says that data shows that students who do well in the online courses do poorly in subsequent academic tests on the material.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Data journalist David McCandless calculated it would take over one million plays on Spotify for a solo artist to earn the U.S. But this was only possible because their production was highly subsidized by universities, investors or philanthropists who were testing out MOOCs as new forms of brand building or educational research.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

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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The Principal of Change

MAY 6, 2018

December 24, 2017 3 Ideas for Staying Positive June 28, 2013 The Prophets In Your Land April 17, 2015 The Opportunity To Further Bring Parents Into the Learning September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC February 7, 2015 Questioning the Data.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015. ASU GSV’s main stage is a near perfect embodiment of the Gartner Hype Cycle : To be clear, our version of the Hype Cycle doesn’t mean we think Web3, the Metaverse, AI, or VR/AR are necessarily bad investment areas. million in 2019 to 18.6 million students in 2021, a 5.1

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

billion, this year’s funding total is the second-highest tally, following 2015 (which saw $1.4 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. billion across 126 deals.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 13, 2017

Relying heavily on data crunching, Bock told The New York Times a few years back that GPAs and test scores are worthless as a criteria for hiring, unless you’re an entry-level grad. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! When hiring, high GPAs and test scores don’t matter.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. That data, he says, comes from him asking questions like ‘What did you learn this semester?’

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

Martin Weller's keynote presentation at EDEN 2015 Conference was entitled 'The battle for open.' The synopsis reads: With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream.

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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.) That was not the case in 2015, when. Venture capital for U.S. Also missing were blockbuster exits, such as LinkedIn’s $1.5 investors poured $741 million in U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

What lessons can be learned from the rise and pivot of MOOCs, those large-scale online courses that proponents said would disrupt higher education? At the start of the MOOC trend in 2012, the promise was that the free online courses could reach students who could not afford or get access to other forms of higher education.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 18, 2015

Sign up today for the 2015 CLMOOC! It served as critical commentary as well as a useful collection of data. So who is the MOOC designed for? NOTE: You can now sign up for CLMOOC 2015. During the first Connected Learning Massive Open Online Collaboration (CLMOOC), in 2013, participants were encouraged to make a map.

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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. Then consider constraints.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

This time, I''m very happy to interview two of the keynote speakers for the EDEN 2015 conference , which will be held in Barcelona. blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. I think many MOOCs (and MOOC providers) will struggle to find a sustainable financial model in their current guise.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources. Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity. In 2015, it was named the No.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Collaborative Learning, 21st Century Skills; Blending Learning, Student Engagement, MOOC; Flipped Classroom; Gamification; Big Data.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Collaborative Learning, 21st Century Skills; Blending Learning, Student Engagement, MOOC; Flipped Classroom; Gamification; Big Data.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. MOOCs were going to change everything. My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.”

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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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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. For example, “There are 1000 more degree-granting colleges and universities today [2015, presumably] than there were in 1996.” million in fall 1994 to 17.6 ” (!) (13).

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. For example, “There are 1000 more degree-granting colleges and universities today [2015, presumably] than there were in 1996.” million in fall 1994 to 17.6 ” (!) (13).

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2015

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 10, 2015

Her involvement in the Hack Education movement derives from her dissatisfaction with current school regimes and her outspoken criticism of traditional education practices has led to her championing alternative education movements such as the flipped classroom, MOOCs and open courseware - and the use of digital learning technologies.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

billion, matching the previous high for the single-year funding total of this decade, set in 2015. There’s a notable difference between 2018 and 2015, however. In 2015 there were 165 deals, versus just 112 in 2018. Once upon a time, she notes, “MOOCs were supposed to displace higher education. Last year, U.S.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Schools Improvement (@SchoolsImprove) February 10, 2015. While the data set isn’t very deep here, the impact of formal academia on all three of them is what you’d guess it might be. In 2015, it’s breathtaking. Like school, then? I can see that happening with school. So much of that stuff is just up for grabs.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

.” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. How accurate is her data? (I’d You can find more data about “the business of ed-tech” – from 2017 and from previous years – on funding.hackeducation.com.

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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. In 2011, the analyst firm Gartner predicted that annual tablet shipments would exceed 300 million units by 2015. But the data is flawed.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

ABL pedagogy aims to enrich students’ academic experience and learning outcomes by connecting theory with practice, and concepts with methods, using data and insight they obtain through engagement with the larger world.” TeachThought is developing a mobile learning framework and definition that will be released in early 2015.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

But the trick is to be willing to alter the nuances of the thesis as new data arise. To their credit, both of the leading commercial MOOCs—Udacity and Coursera—have undertaken significant pivots to their initially flawed business models. Time will tell whether these changes were too little, too late.

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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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