Edsurge
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. As the conversation continued, Joosten discussed the importance of design in online course development, a primary finding in the scan.
Neo LMS
JANUARY 27, 2022
Read more: Methods and tools to develop future-ready skills. In June 2020, Microsoft launched a global digital skill initiative to help people learn much needed skills for in-demand jobs. Making more use of technology as a tool for learning and not as a distraction is also a skill they had to develop.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 26, 2020
No, but some virtual tools will stick around. Will the 2020 coronavirus pandemic change that? For me, it was pretty easy to imagine how I’d supplement the online pre-recorded lectures from my MOOC with discussions with Wesleyan students on the Zoom platform. Related: Will this semester forever alter college?
Edsurge
DECEMBER 26, 2019
I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. MOOCs appear first in the filmstrip category, because by 2014, higher ed pretty much thought that MOOCs were dead.
Edsurge
JUNE 17, 2020
New study in @PNASNews on MOOC persistence- 2.5 A Thread 1/ [link] ( @whynotyet , @emyeom ) — Justin Reich (@bjfr) June 16, 2020. The MIT scholar outlined his recent research misadventures and his recommendations in a Twitter thread this week. New insights on scale, global achievement gaps, open science, & personalization.
Edsurge
AUGUST 11, 2016
He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education. That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century.
Edsurge
APRIL 3, 2020
As 2020 kicked off, the U.S. MOOC catalog site Class Central has reported a 900 percent spike in traffic , and course enrollment has surged at Coursera. job market was the strongest in 50 years , and the economy had seen a record 113-month streak of job creation. Across industries, demand for talent was booming.
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