The Principal of Change

AUGUST 6, 2017

January 1, 2017 20 Inspirational Quotes to Start off 2017 September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC April 3, 2015 The Game of School May 16, 2017 5 Great Non-Education Books That Might Change Your Thinking on Teaching and Learning July 31, 2015 The “Basics” and Innovation.

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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. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0; The list goes on and on.

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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. I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0; The list goes on and on.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 7, 2015

CET) April 22: What is the impact of mobile learning? CET) May 6: MOOCs and online learning: How will they shape the future of education? CET) May 20: What are your experiences of personal learning? Other dates will be announced for the remainder of 2015 in due course. Post conference discussion) (20.00

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

March 6, 2016 Adding or Subtracting Learning? August 16, 2015 Maybe Not Tomorrow, but When? June 18, 2015 Personalize, Not Standardize September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! IMMOOC March 3, 2016 Endless Opportunities to Teach and Learn.

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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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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” “Personalized learning” has powerful advocates, least of which US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who talks about it as part of her broader initiative to “rethink school.” Manufacturing Trends.

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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. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In short, differentiation is the process of personalizing universal learning goals for groups of students. As such, it is closely related to (but different than) personalized learning and individualized learning. Individualized Learning. Informal Learning. Mobile Learning. .” (22).

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 28, 2015

I’ve been working for some time on ideas of inclusion & ( in)equality in open education, and of the possibility of a postcolonial MOOC (with Shyam Sharma ), and gathering ideas from others on how to envision a more inclusive, diverse and equitable open online learning experience. Putting Ideas into Practice.

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ProfHacker

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I’ve been working for some time on ideas of inclusion & ( in)equality in open education, and of the possibility of a postcolonial MOOC (with Shyam Sharma ), and gathering ideas from others on how to envision a more inclusive, diverse and equitable open online learning experience. Putting Ideas into Practice.

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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.” That’s not where the chapter begins.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2020

Ted Dintersmith : There was a massive gush of enthusiasm for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), with some conviction it would revolutionize higher education. Many colleges rushed to put in place their MOOC offerings, hoping to provide meaningful free or low-cost education to a “massive” number of students.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” Larry Cuban on personalized learning : part 1 and part 2. million in revenue in 2015, and its executive compensation was $2.8

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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.

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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. Remember: robots for the elderly share a direct connection to MOOCs replacing higher ed.). “Learning Designers will have to adapt or die.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Microsoft -Branded MOOCs for K–12 Leaders.” Via Buzzfeed : “ Facebook Recorded An £11 Million UK Tax Rebate In 2015, Accounts Show.” Education in the Courts.

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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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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.). AltSchool is another Silicon Valley company working on a “personalized learning platform.” ” Despite raising some $87.5

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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 startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

million from a business that pulled in almost $1 billion in revenue in 2015 – with no fines, penalties, or admission of wrongdoing. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” A “ personalized learning explainer ” from Mindwire Consulting.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Trump administration on Thursday withdrew 2015 guidance issued by the Obama administration that barred student loan guarantee agencies from charging collection fees to defaulted borrowers who start repaying their loans quickly.” Are MOOCs webinars? Are webinars now MOOCs?).

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill : “If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try To Be An OPM : Conversion of for-profits and MOOCs.” ” There’s some Udacity-related MOOC news in the job training section below.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). The startup, which something something MOOC something something, has raised $9.69 Everest Education has raised $1 million from unnamed investors for its “personalized learning” platform. OpenClassrooms has raised $6.74 million total.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

She and her husband also donated $200,000 to AFC’s charitable arm in 2014 and 2015 through the Dick and Betsy DeVos Family Foundation. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?” ” asks IHE blogger Joshua Kim. ”).

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” ” Research finds there’s a " global achievement gap in MOOCs. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ CSU signs deal to record, broadcast classroom lectures,” says the San Francisco Examiner. Meanwhile, via Pearson : “ Personalized learning and student privacy.” ” More legal maneuvering in the for-profit higher ed section below.

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Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “The University of California, Los Angeles , is planning a major expansion in the online certificate and graduate degree markets that it hopes will reach as many as 15,000 students by early next decade,” Inside Higher Ed reports. for Robotics Contest.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The GW Hatchet : “Oversight of online learning programs lacking in some schools, report finds.” ” Good job, Woz.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). In other words, MOOCs are now gym memberships. Initially, the course will be available to anyone as a MOOC with an optional $99 identity-verified certificate. ” Via Techcrunch : “ IBM Watson and Udacity want developers to learn AI online.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. Vive la MOOC Révolution. The British MOOC company FutureLearn entered the US market.

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Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” From Data & Society : “ Personalized Learning : The Conversations We’re Not Having.” .’ Now, the College Board is being criticized for its new AP European History framework.” The University System of Maryland joins edX.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “How Much Hollywood Glitz Should Colleges Use in Their Online Courses ?” How Expeditionary Deeper Learning Engages Students Through Inquiry, Discovery & Creativity.” ” Education Week has published a new report on personalized learning.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “As In-Person Bootcamps Falter, Codecademy Introduces Paid Online Options.” Pretty sure this is the best MOOC story of the week: “ Russian Underground Launches Online Courses in Card Fraud ,” Infosecurity Group reports. .”

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Hack Education

JUNE 24, 2016

The governor, a Republican elected in 2015, announced on Friday that he had disbanded the university’s current 20-member Board of Trustees. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). weeks in 2015.” “Can Venture Capital Put Personalized Learning Within Reach of All Students?”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

“What countries can learn from PISA tests” – at least, according to The Economist. More on MOOC “degrees” and possible legal troubles in the politics section above. ” The latest from Stanford history professor on Larry Cuban on “ personalized learning ” in Silicon Valley area schools.

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

This coding bootcamp was acquired by the University of Phoenix’s parent company, Apollo Education Group , in 2015. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The LA Times asks , “ In this digital self-help age, just how effective are MasterClass ’s A-list celebrity workshops? .”

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