Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Cali Morrison (@calimorrison) March 27, 2018. Farrar (@sent1nel) March 27, 2018. Register now for the EdSurge webinar, How Analytics Can Support Student Success in Higher Ed , April 25, 2018 at 12 pm PT | 3 pm ET. DLNchat [link] — Prof Straight (@RyanStraight) March 27, 2018. Sponsored by Salesforce.org.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Academic grades rarely assess qualities like creativity, leadership and teamwork skills, or social, emotional and political intelligence. For example, at Google, once employees are two or three years out of college, their grades have no bearing on their performance. (Of May 27, 2016 Accepting the Default?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I count. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. The average completion rate for MOOCs (including the ones I design) hovers between 5-15 percent. This skepticism is not unwarranted.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 24, 2019

As an online educator she developed and offered a MOOC for the SJSU iSchool, and she coordinated two Library 2.0 online conferences, The Emerging Future (2015) and Blockchain (2018). series with Dr. Steve Albrecht, being held on Monday, February 11th, 2018, at 4:00 pm Eastern Standard Time. in Security Management, a B.S.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

From the SPARC press release : “Congress Funds $5 Million Open Textbook Grant Program in 2018 Spending Bill.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Andrea Zafirakou has won the 2018 Global Teacher Prize. Via Campus Technology : “Recipients of 2018 McGraw Prize in Education Revealed.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

In a 2018 survey of hiring leaders , we found that online pre-hire assessment was the single most likely “disruptor” of the reliance on degrees in hiring, followed by simulation-based hiring. Learning is increasingly happening in the workplace, or “ in the flow of work.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

But it may be enough to know the report exists and can be freely downloaded and doom-scrolled to assess the thinking of dozens of experts. Worth noting: the number of states linking or planning to link postsecondary and K-12 data since the 2018 survey has been flat, and decreased slightly for postsecondary to workforce.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

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. It is more than just working with a computer on self-assessed activities. For me its just normal – this is how you should teach and facilitate learning in 2018!

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

We are teaching digital citizens in 2018. Fortunately, there is a vast amount of content already available, such as YouTube videos, MOOCs, multiple choice questions and web-based resources. This antiquated idea of a classroom needs to be flipped on its head in the form of flipped learning via a flipped classroom approach!

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2019

A LinkedIn survey of 1,200 workers in human resources and learning development teams across more than 2,100 workplaces worldwide found that the top priorities for talent developers include identifying, assessing and closing skills gaps within their companies. That’s what happened to Coursera, NovoEd, Udacity and several others.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

This is the last Hack Education Weekly News of the year because next week I am publishing a very abbreviated review of 2018, and I won’t need to study in detail what happens each week anymore. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s like the MOOC crap all over again. ” Testing.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Meanwhile on Campus… If anybody from Baraboo High School in Wisconsin can clue me in on why it appears the entire male class of 2018 is throwing up a Sig Heil during their prom photos - that would be great. More robot news up in the MOOC section above.

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The assessment company has raised over $52 million total. Via funding.hackeducation.com : “The Business of Ed-Tech: May 2018 Funding Data.” ” Via Pew : “ Teens , Social Media , & Technology 2018.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

SeanMcElwee) April 11, 2018. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” From the press release : “ Facebook Launches New Initiative to Help Scholars Assess Social Media’s Impact on Elections.” Board of Education and it barely registered as a story. link] — abolish ice.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018.” Lynn University will buy the for-profit Digital Media Arts College. The latter had lost its accreditation in December of last year.).

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Free MOOCs Face the Music,” writes Inside Higher Ed on edX ’s decision to start charging fees. More “MOOC” news under the job training section below. douglevin) June 11, 2018. million for its MOOC platform.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ MOOCs May Still Be Reshaping Higher Education, Just Not In the Way That Was Initially Predicted.” There’s more MOOC news in the contests and competition section below. link] [link] — Ryan Mac (@RMac18) September 18, 2018.

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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. ” Via the ACT press release : “ ACT to Deliver Assessment for the Moral Education Program to Students in the UAE.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 27, 2017

“Assessing Betsy DeVos ’ Rollback on Disability Rights ” by Pacific Standard’s David Perry. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs. “Learning Creative Learning: It’s not a MOOC , it’s a community,” says the MIT Media Lab. They’re back?

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ California Should Watch Arkansas Process for Creating New Online Institution,” says Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill. in August has released an assessment on the university’s response and what it could have done better. ” asks Bryan Alexander.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep hyping that MOOC thing. Via Edsurge : “ MOOCs Are No Longer Massive. ” Via Class Central : “Class Central’s Top 50 MOOCs of All Time (2018 edition).” — Rebecca Klein (@rklein90) August 22, 2018.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the job training section below. . A new project from the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel : “Reimagining College Access: Performance Assessments From K–12 Through Higher Education.”

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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. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

” “ Torn Apart / Separados ” – “A rapidly deployed critical data & visualization intervention in the USA’s 2018 ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’ for asylum seekers at the US Ports of Entry and the humanitarian crisis that has followed.” ” “ AI and Assessment ” by Donald Clark.

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

” Also via WaPo : “Here are K–12 education programs Trump wants to eliminate in 2018 budget.” ” That’s the Collegiate Learning Assessment exam (a.k.a. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Why Haven’t MOOCs Eliminated Any Professors?”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Thank God we spent the last 20 years paying a dozen middle-aged white men to rehash the same articles on how political correctness on campus is the true threat to free speech [link] — Dara Very Rude Elevator Screamers Kaye (@DaraKaye) October 29, 2018. 1/ pic.twitter.com/MDuwuX3Hv2 — Clare McCann (@claremccann) October 26, 2018.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) Good thing I never did anything in those MOOCs, otherwise I'd be losing my work. Remember Richard McKenzie? ” Hackers, man. .

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP. ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story. “MOOCs Are ”Dead.“ million in crowdfunding for its MOOC platform. “ What’s Next?

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Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

1, 2017, on the online 2018–19 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Here’s a link to all the stories in Slate’s series on online credit recovery programs. “After the Hype, Do MOOC Ventures Like edX Still Matter?”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The Future of AI, Data, and Education,” says Udacity , as it announces a new advisory board… You have got to be f **g kidding me pic.twitter.com/cPiW548WHR — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) February 21, 2018. .” Of course.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

. “Learning styles” in the White House: President Trump doesn’t read his daily intelligence briefings, gets oral briefings on “select” issues instead, because reading isn’t “his style of learning,” the @washingtonpost reports [link] — Kasie Hunt (@kasie) February 9, 2018. douglevin) February 12, 2018. High School.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

A bill in Missouri would end tenure for all new faculty hires starting in 2018 and require more student access to information about the job market for majors. 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.

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Vive la MOOC révolution. ” “Orphan MOOCs and the Digital Dark Ages” by Jeffrey Pomerantz in Hybrid Pedagogy. ” There’s more licensing and certification news in the MOOC section above. Via Edsurge : “?In schools. .”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Are You Getting a Pay Bump For Student Completion? ” “Whatever Happened To MOOCs ?” A sobering assessment and a warning.” Virtual Schools Dish Out the Dough.” ” asks Stanford’s Larry Cuban. .”

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2017

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “What Trump’s Proposed 2018 Budget Would Mean for Higher Ed.” ” Via Edweek’s Market Brief : “ Trump’s Budget for Fiscal 2018: Cuts for Ed., ” Via Education Week : “Market Is Booming for Digital Formative Assessments.”

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