The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 28, 2016

George Couros (@gcouros) December 28, 2016. Learning based on games. MOOCs and other online learning options. George Couros (@gcouros) December 28, 2016. Updated Visual) October 19, 2011 The Blended PLC September 15, 2016 The Arrows Go Back and Forth #IMMOOC. Today I tweeted this article: Thoughts?

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

Last week I participated in the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) 2016 conference. The event became much more dramatic than expected, once the hosting city, Washington DC, was clobbered by the great snowpocalyspe of 2016. Online learning is on the rise. Preconference workshop.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

employers spent nearly $71 billion on training in 2016—a figure that was flat compared to 2015. New Options One major reason is the explosion of relatively high-quality, free or low-cost professional learning options in recent years. “Information today is pushed so quickly at people that the landscape has fundamentally changed.”

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Now that we’ve assembled international crowds of motivated, smart people online in MOOCs, it’s time to think about harnessing their collective intelligence to tackle these urgent cross-boundary issues. We invite up to 1,000 students who have previously completed two or more of our free MOOCs to apply to participate in these challenges.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. To be a good instructional designer, you should steep yourself in the research on learning and teaching.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

In 2016 we added one of our own to the mix: EdSurge Independent. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. But the article that resonated the most was Amy Ahearn’s: The Future of Online Learning Is Offline: What Strava Can Teach Digital Course Designers. What’s my favorite EdSurge HigherEd article?

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? Online learning, or the teaching formerly knows as “distance learning” Will this keep growing? Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. That should extend into 2016.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 27, 2016

Today at 8pm GMT, the second #EDENchat of 2016 will be live on Twitter. Follow the hashtag and join in the chat as we discuss issues around open learning and open scholarship. 3) How are MOOCs and other massive open study opportunities changing or influencing out thinking as educators? 4) Is open content truly 'free'?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers. A free online course from Rice University uses attention-grabbing videos, interactive lab activities, dramatic physics demonstrations, engaging instructors and a free online textbook to help high school students prepare for the Advanced Placement (AP) Physics 1 Exam.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

Nearly 60 percent of 589 preK-12 educators surveyed enrolled in professional courses online, according to a study by the Educational Technology Industry Network, a division of the Software & Information Industry Network. Who provided the professional online learning course? Online community: 60 percent.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. He quickly began supplementing his education with online courses from Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. Between 2014 and 2016 Usman earned 21. complete multiple MOOCs. complete multiple MOOCs. of students who gain acceptance.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Boston-based private equity firm Devonshire Investors has acquired NovoEd , a San Francisco-based provider of an online learning platform. NovoEd traces its roots to Stanford University, where engineering professor Amin Saberi and Farnaz Ronaghi, then a PhD student, launched their first online course in 2012.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The report notes, “Success in teaching is closely tied to test results, and teachers are not frequently rewarded for innovative approaches and improvements in teaching and learning, much less allowed to scale and replicate these breakthroughs.” Teachers are becoming more comfortable with this idea of “blending learning.”.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Our partner, The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation’s free online Learning Differences course aims to help teachers better understand and meet the needs of all learners. See what a Constance Seibert, a former participant-turned facilitator, has to say about what makes the course so valuable. .

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

I asked Groom to describe the Domain of One’s Own movement’s state of the union in 2016. Jim recommends the notion of The Splot (credit to Brian Lamb , Alan Levine ): the smallest possible online learning tool; make something very focused, for one function or project. A: Jim hoped so.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

I asked Groom to describe the Domain of One’s Own movement’s state of the union in 2016. Jim recommends the notion of The Splot (credit to Brian Lamb , Alan Levine ): the smallest possible online learning tool; make something very focused, for one function or project. A: Jim hoped so.

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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. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Before the invasion of the internet, the university comprised a secure, single identity; now—with about a third of college students online —the American college is bifurcated. Just the other day, Purdue University, in partnership with Kaplan and edX, announced three new MOOC-based engineering degrees for under $25,000.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

When implementing blended learning within the classroom, teachers may have to produce additional materials for the pupils to use. In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. What is a blended learning approach?

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The PL2C Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

While it seems ridiculous that such design decisions would be made in the physical space, we have all experienced an online learning website or course that left us with the same kind of feeling this Bed & Breakfast. Online instructional design is much like interior design. ” [link]. Accessed 9 Dec. ” 18 Mar.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In part, this adopts a model some MIT professors already use, called a Small Private Online Course, or SPOC —a customized adaption of the Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, that sparked wide attention a decade ago. There’s very significant demand for both of these models, but they’re under-leveraged.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Stories From Previous Years: Here are some of the stories that got us to where we are today: The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2016. Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Learning to Code. Online Learning. Indie Ed-Tech.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. radio and televisions in the early 20th century and online learning and MOOCs via the Internet in the early 21st century.) The technology has changed over the years.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The Center has run a course for undergraduates since 2007 and has since expanded into secondary schools by hosting summer teacher-training workshops and making course materials available online through its Digital Resource Center.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016. ” “Make MOOCs great again.” ” Some of New Markets Venture Partner’s investments include BetterLesson, Credly, Civitas Learning, and Mashable. The Chinese online learning company has raised $40.14 Very unfair! — Donald J. million total.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. The latest report formerly known as the Sloan Survey of Online Learning has been released.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

.” The article notes that “The number of states planning to use the new [SBAC and PARCC] tests dropped from 45 in 2011 to 20 in 2016.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ Are MOOCs Forever ?” ” Google has released its 2016 Scholar Metrics.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Tony Bates looks at “Brexit and online learning in Europe.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). From the edX blog : “How to be a Better Learner: Determine Your Learning Style.” ” Try learning styles, maybe. MOOCs losing their mojo? Priorities.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

This year feels different too than the previous years in which I’ve written these reviews because education technology – as an industry – sort of floundered in 2016, as I think my series will show. Beyond the MOOC. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. Online Learning.

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “A Corporate Learning Revolution” – a Coursera webinar. Are MOOCs webinars? Are webinars now MOOCs?). ” Also via Class Central : “ MéxicoX : Meet the MOOC Platform Funded by the Mexican Government.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). UC Berkeley says it will remove online course content in response to a Department of Justice assertion that the materials violate the ADA as they are not fully accessible to those with disabilities. percent in 2016 to total $208.6 OpenClassrooms has raised $6.74

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

.” The school recently announced that it would end its attempts to regain accreditation after the Department of Education withdrew recognition for the for-profit in 2016. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The San Jose Mercury News : “Students at Concord’s Mt.

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

“The UK government has published its 2016 HE White Paper, entitled Success as a Knowledge Economy: Teaching Excellence, Social Mobility and Student Choice,” the Times Higher Education reports. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via the US News & World Report : “The 2016 U.S.

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Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit ! FutureLearn announced that two UK universities – the University of Leeds and the Open University – will offer MOOCs that will be accepted for college credit. For more on MOOCs for credit, see the “MOOCs” section above.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” edX is offering an online master’s degree with Georgia Tech : an OMS (online master’s in science) in Analytics. The Economist on “ The Return of the MOOC.” More research on MOOCs in the MOOC section above.

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