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For Best Results, Pair MOOCs With In-Person Support

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Massive open online courses (MOOCs) transfixed higher education in the early 2010s, so much so that The New York Times dubbed 2012 "The Year of the MOOC." At the time, many thought MOOCs might become a replacement for both classroom instruction and ingrained models of learning. It’s easy to see why.

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Monetization Over Massiveness: Breaking Down MOOCs by the Numbers in 2016

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The modern massive open online course movement, which began when the first “MOOCs” were offered by Stanford professors in late 2011, is now half a decade old. In that time, MOOC providers have raised over $400 million and now employ more than a thousand staff. Class Central. million Udacity - 4 million. And it seems to be working.

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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

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While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning. Cheating on Chegg?

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My Top 5 Posts from 2017

The Principal of Change

So to share a little bit of my learning over the year, I wanted to highlight five posts that were read the most from my blog in 2017. ” Although it is crucial to determine routines in the classroom, it is also crucial to do it with kindness and caring. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

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This panel asks how this technology might expand the walls of the classroom—or isolate students from the learning environment. : Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. But will VR and AR live up to its hype? 2:00 p.m.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

Shake Up Learning

The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Expand Your Use of Google Classroom. Google has opened up Google Classroom to users outside of G Suite for Education. I hope this will inspire you to think of other new ways to use Google Classroom. Keep reading!

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The Process is the Product

The Principal of Change

Many educators are great at bringing “experts” into their classrooms. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! I always say that the best person to teach kids about space is probably an astronaut, not necessarily a teacher. But do the students know how the teacher made that happen?

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