Edsurge

MAY 3, 2018

You could call extension schools the original MOOCs. Well, unless you count the students in MOOCs, those free online courses, which are offered through a different division of the university. Yet during that same period, another part of the university, HarvardX, has been running MOOCs, massive open online courses.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

When people talk about the future of technology in education, they picture every student having access to a computer or a tablet; they see paperless rooms where technology trained teachers lead the class. With most students having access to a smartphone, the ability for students to collaborate and produce short films is effortless.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 27, 2022

Some of these are: different approaches to teaching adapted to students’ needs, developed ICT skills, professional development for teachers, attempts to bridge the digital divide, improvement of resource accessibility, funding and curriculum changes. Exploring three opportunities for education created by the pandemic.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Friday Institute for Educational Innovation at North Carolina State University recently scaled access to professional learning content for educators by taking advantage of the Massive Open Online Courses for Educators (MOOC-Eds) format. There are people literally from the other side of the world in our MOOC-Eds.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Teachers spend hours designing and setting up their classrooms. 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. ” I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

Insights that derive from dialog between K-12, higher education, and online-learning providers could well shape instructional practices for the better as students return to school, whether in a classroom or over Zoom. Instructors have also experimented with lecture formats that did away with podiums and blackboards.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. Students can communicate peer-to-peer and also engage instructors directly in text, voice, and video, recorded for later access or run immediately in real-time. The term MOOC was coined by others in 2008.) Sink or swim.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

EdSurge talked with Rick Levin, CEO of Coursera (and former president of one of those big-name universities, Yale) about how the mega-courses known as MOOCs have changed in the five years since the start of their hype-filled debut. It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. How’s that going?

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Neo LMS

MAY 21, 2020

Now more than ever we should all discover its merits and use all its potential to reach more learners and give them access to educational programs that are vital for their development. Read more: Why are some educators still reluctant to using technology in the classroom? How to overcome the resistance to online education in Higher Ed.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. It offers a large number of students access to study high-quality courses online through video streaming. Many prestigious universities such as Harvard offers MOOC at minimal or no cost. However, some courses are chargeable.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

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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The Principal of Change

MAY 15, 2018

What do you think when you hear the word “access” when it comes to education and our students? At first, when you hear the term “access,” many people think about things like access to technology and the Internet. What about access to high-quality learning opportunities in every classroom?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Gaps between young people of privilege and Opportunity Youth in rates of learning needs diagnosis, college access and completion, suspension, and incarceration make a critical learning differences story that must be heard. Redesign physical spaces in schools and classrooms to reflect the UDL framework. UDL and Opportunity Youth.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 12, 2014

The topics to be covered include: civic discourse, mobile technology in the classroom, student safety and digital citizenship, visual communication, 21st century communication and connected learning. The goals of this MOOC are to: Engage participants in relevant and important conversation around issues critical to 21st century learning.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

My recent post about the cost trap and inclusive access prompted responses by Jim Groom and Stephen Downes. For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. And I want to do it worldwide.”

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

When professor Lorena Barba talks to other educators about flipping their classrooms, the approach she hears is often similar. They come primed to discuss those things and learn in classroom,” says Barba. “We These days the professor considers herself an advocate of “the non-video school of MOOCs.”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. We shall see. An example?

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EdTechnocation.com

MARCH 19, 2014

Last week, the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change , began. Small Steps When providing technology integration support, I often tell teachers to pick one way or one thing to do with the technology in the classroom or a lesson and focus on that. Why should we take that away in the classroom?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges. While attention around MOOCs has died down, the company seems to have found a business model for free courses with something it calls Specializations. Even when people have the best intentions, they're busy.”

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 18, 2014

Unit 5 of the Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed focused on Digital Citizenship. Just because you are an educational institution and your students are creating projects for the classroom does not mean you can use other people''s work and their images freely. Coach Digital Learning mooc MOOC-Ed'

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

Widespread public interest surrounds new technologies in the classroom. These changes will impact both the way students learn and the appearance of traditional classroom settings. These venues range from MOOCs (free massive online open courses) to traditional brick-and-mortar public schools. Ubiquitous Computers on The Horizon.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

To increase equity, you should set up your asynchronous learning environments to maximize accessibility. For example, most of the enrolled students in fully asynchronous MOOCs are adults, and even in this context, completion can be challenging. Using headings and image captions can aid student comprehension and break up long text.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype. That’s the case for Davis, who for several years was a producer of video classes for HarvardX, Harvard’s MOOC production wing. “I

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Graphite Blog

JULY 16, 2020

You'll need to sign up for a free account with Common Sense Education to access the digital citizenship curriculum and other resources. But the upcoming, instructor-led summer session is " Analyzing and Evaluating Media for the Classroom." Teaching Channel ($9.99 The time commitment for the course is 20 hours.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Data-Driven Results As an institution, the way you treat education and manage it is different from MOOCs or short-term online courses. As we said, it’s very different for MOOCs or online course platforms and entire institutions, and digitizing education doesn’t mean the same in these scenarios. It’s not an instructor-focused show.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Fast forward a few weeks; Minecraft kept finding its way into my classroom. 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. Language Learning and Minecraft.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

They invited me to their school to share my flipped classroom journey. They are well into their journey to bring blended and flipped learning to all classrooms. Saint Stephen’s College has classroom spaces that truly allow for the station rotation model to successfully be implemented.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2019

He made the move to his new phase of scholarly life during a rush of enthusiasm for so-called MOOCs, Massive Open Online Courses, that big-name colleges were starting to offer low-cost higher education to a wider audience. Then you could switch up the kind of activities that you're doing in your classroom time. I still don't.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 28, 2020

We need to start the changes from our own classrooms. The students have access to the internet, and all the information available. Let’s our classrooms be the labs whereby we explore and try to inculcate that spirit of inquisitiveness in each student.”. MOOCs, rubrics, open-ended questions, open-book examinations, etc.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

This is going to come as a shock I know…but pre-service education programs are not preparing teachers for a technology rich classroom teaching experience. Or to put that another way the classrooms of today. Math teachers should know about things like PhotoMath and how you could leverage this in the classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

So goes the origin story of many education startups born this year, like ClassEDU, which raised $16 million to put some oomph in Zoom classrooms. Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs.

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Linways Technologies

MARCH 31, 2020

This sets institutional education apart from the MOOCs, or online course delivery tools. It goes beyond classroom interactions and file sharing to analytics, reports, data-driven decision making, and maintaining the order. The Principal will have access to the entire details of staff and students present in an institute.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 3, 2018

Our focus for the upcoming week is classroom management and parent engagement. Join us for the next #EduGoalsMOOC ‘s Twitter chat where we will discuss Classroom Management and Parent Engagement with guest experts, @DrJoy , Assistant Principal, and Marisa Constantinides ( @Marisa_C ), owner and director of CELT Athens in Greece.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

As college students click, swipe and tap through their daily lives—both in the classroom and outside of it—they’re creating a digital footprint of how they think, learn and behave that boggles the mind. Unsure about what to do, many colleges and universities are restricting researchers’ access to student data. For Stevens, his “aha!”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Every year in March the edtech world descends on Austin for SXSW EDU, a conference that’s become as much about classroom practice and implementation as entrepreneurship and tech innovation. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Can Evidence Even Keep Up with Edtech? Look at Me!” Higher Ed 11:00 a.m.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Continuing with our reading of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ): this week we’re discussing chapter 2, “Shifting Landscape.” DeMillo carries on with several themes. Kindle location 1093).

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