Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

One of EdSurge’s most popular articles described how a teacher used flexible seating to create a classroom that resembled Starbucks, spawning a movement to “ Starbucks your classroom. ” Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

.” Competency-Based Education isn’t necessarily an innovation, but a move to Competency-Based Education can lead to other innovations–using technology to personalize a student’s navigation of to-be-mastered content, for example. In a 2016 article, ‘ Innovation in Higher Education: Can Colleges Really Change?’,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. His educational journey started in 1998 teaching little children to speak English.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This week’s podcast is brought to you by UNC Chapel Hill’s Master of Arts in Educational Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Program, known as the MEITE Program : MEITE is for students pursuing careers in the educational technology industry. Yes, of course I can give lots of articles and reading.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Are any education technologies, for that matter? 70+ million users’ account details. What is a “Platform”?

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

A few weeks ago, I posted a set of recommended readings that I originally sent to a colleague who asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. Maybe we can do that by trying to list some of the big ideas and an accessible entry point or summary of each idea.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Our third Library 2.019 mini-conference, "Emerging Technology," will be held online (and for free) on Wednesday, October 30th, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Daylight Time (click for your own time zone). Tomorrow’s technologies are shaping our world today, revolutionizing the way we live and learn.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

Not all asynchronous learning is the same and new trends emerge as new technology emerges–and more importantly, our collective definitions and vision for what learning is and might be change with them. Asynchronous learning generally uses technology that enables students to access course materials on their own.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The technology that tracks digital records has spurred a cryptocurrency gold rush and an NFT explosion. Should local communities determine how education gets funded and who has access to public schools —or should the federal government intervene? That would be the block chain. At least, in theory. That includes higher education.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Last week, a colleague asked me what I would recommend as essential reading for understanding technology in student affairs. There have been some good articles, books, and chapters that are important in particular, narrow contexts but I don’t think that I’ve seen anything essential or seminal.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

The ID ticks off the boxes for alignment of learning outcomes and accessibility and sends the faculty on his or her way to teach the course. Some technologies enable social interaction while others purposefully remove it. New technologies promise a more adaptive and personalized learning experience. Walk In Students’ Shoes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Note: This article originally appeared in Stanford News. Unsure about what to do, many colleges and universities are restricting researchers’ access to student data. moment about the need for a big data code of ethics came soon after “MOOC mania” struck higher education in 2012. For Stevens, his “aha!”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In addition to the language generated by the students themselves in their projects, I found that a huge amount of English was being generated as students shared tips, accessed online guides and built a common understanding. For more about using Minecraft with language learners, David Dodgson recommends the following resources: Articles.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

Access and convenience remain major motivations that bring learners to open content. Curt began by describing the use of MOOCs for faculty and staff development, with examples such as a University of London effort. In fact, open MOOCs can work for any population, esp. professions. It’s about self-motivated learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

What lessons can be learned from the rise and pivot of MOOCs, those large-scale online courses that proponents said would disrupt higher education? At the start of the MOOC trend in 2012, the promise was that the free online courses could reach students who could not afford or get access to other forms of higher education.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The first principle in the article above relates to access, and states: "A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, portfolio artifacts, credible sources, and previous thinking on relevant topics. Such large data sets can conceivably be sold on for a sizeable profit to companies who are interested.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

In an article for the English Journal , Narter recounts how the student found his feedback more encouraging when he expressed it orally. Technology has limitations, of course. But technological advances are making the task easier and easier. But could video technology enhance these courses by adding more human elements?

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 30, 2017

It has featured regularly in keynote speeches, articles and texts about the future of education. Some were fairly ridiculous or at best fanciful, but others are quite revealing both sociologically and psychologically, about what people of the time thought about the future and about new technology.

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

More from the official biography: Under his leadership, Georgia Tech has developed a pipeline of 50 Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that together enroll more than a million learners. and around the world… DeMillo was Hewlett-Packard’s first Chief Technology Officer, where he had worldwide responsibility for technology.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

A recent article on the BBC News website asks why lectures aren't obsolete. In the light of all the new technologies that are now available to universities, the article asks, why has the lecture refused to go away? It should never be used to control learning or to determine the content students to which they have access.

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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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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

I want to talk to you today about the history of educational crises and education technology. And as we lurch from crisis to crisis — real crisis or manufactured crisis — technology has often been proposed as the fix, "the solution." And we surely need to ask, who proposes technology as the solution? Whose fix is this?

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Technology plays a prominent role in the modern classroom. Education technology tools and solutions are becoming commonplace and widespread. As a result, educators must stay on top of trends and pursue ongoing learning in technology. As such, they might need to rely on technology to further their education.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

After years in business, including serving as CEO of the photo-sharing service Snapfish, he decided to dust off that proposal, update it for the latest technology, and create a university he hopes will encourage traditional elite colleges to change how they operate. Tax status: Hybrid of for-profit and non-profit.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 20, 2015

There were posts about the Anatomy of PLEs , their functionality , their role as a counterpoint to the institutional Learning Management System, and also their relationship to MOOCs and Connectivism. We were all excited about the potential of PLEs, their subversive nature and their inherent informality.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

In the past year or so there's been a flurry of announcements from the big MOOC providers involving new degree programs based around their online courses. Earlier this year, for instance, Coursera announced six new degrees , including the first-ever MOOC-based Bachelors. Quite the opposite.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s. The hope is that if what would normally take 10,000 hours could be shortened to 1,000, and be done via methods that are more affordable and accessible, many more people can become experts.

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MindShift

MAY 22, 2018

In an article for the English Journal , Narter recounts how the student found his feedback more encouraging when he expressed it orally. Technology has limitations, of course. But technological advances are making the task easier and easier. But could video technology enhance these courses by adding more human elements?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

The main takeaway: Learning how to learn is the single most important skill that our students will need to master if they hope to participate meaningfully in the fast-paced, technology-driven workplace of the future. Teach Students to Embrace Technology and Remote Learning. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. For example, this story from the School Library Journal : “ Charter Schools , Segregation , and School Library Access.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Because technology imperialism.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

M y key premise is that l earning technology is just about everywhere in education. How might we harness the powerful potential of these tools and technologies to engage students more, and enhance learning in higher education? How many people read an article in a closed journal? We have the technology.

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EdTechTeacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

To kick off this event, Alec Couros ( @courosa ), Associate Professor of educational technology and media at the Faculty of Education, University of Regina is giving the opening keynote. One day, Alec says that he tweeted out that he was thinking of starting a MOOC. Humanization Technology has to be humanizing in our environments.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

I recently came upon a pair of contradictory articles about what colleges will be charging for tuition next academic year: One reporting that Ohio State University found reasons last month to nearly double its online tuition , and another noting that some colleges are in a race to lower tuition. The value of college is hard to measure.

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