Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Wally Clipper, has a great run-down on 8 trends you’ll want to watch in 2020: 8 EdTech Trends to Watch Out for This 2020. MOOCS (massive online open courses) are different from virtual classes, and are usually offered by colleges and universities. Data Analytics. Artificial Intelligence.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2020

That case was made on Twitter this week by Justin Reich, an assistant professor at MIT and the director of the Teaching Systems Lab there. But over the last 10 years we’ve deployed online learning at a massive scale in K-12 schools, colleges, through large-scale MOOCs, etc. He made his argument in a 20-tweet thread. Here's why.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

The MIT scholar outlined his recent research misadventures and his recommendations in a Twitter thread this week. New study in @PNASNews on MOOC persistence- 2.5 A Thread 1/ [link] ( @whynotyet , @emyeom ) — Justin Reich (@bjfr) June 16, 2020. New insights on scale, global achievement gaps, open science, & personalization.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It is the instructional designer and tenured professor’s signal — “to the barricades!” — and everyone snipes at the other side from the Twitter trenches for a week, until there’s an unspoken truce that lasts until the next “ban laptops” op-ed gets published. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

By 2020, 65 percent of U.S. Even as technology can help students, there are plenty of instances where it can also lead to dead ends: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) did not make it possible for anyone on the planet to get the equivalent of a Stanford University degree for free. jobs will require postsecondary education.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” (Probably worth checking out Sara Goldrick-Rab’s comments on Twitter about this one.). ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Responses to last week’s news about Western Governors University and the audit of its competency-based offerings: Via NPR : “Who Is A College Teacher, Anyway? Via Edsurge : “20 By 2020: Quizlet ’s Big Revenue Ambitions From Third-Party Content Partners.”

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