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. A little bit of history… As it happens with many things, online education is nothing new under the sun.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

The MOOC landscape has grown to include 9,400 courses, more than 500 MOOC-based credentials, and more than a dozen graduate degrees. The total number of MOOCs available to register for at any point of time is larger than ever, thanks to tweaks in the scheduling policy by MOOC providers. edX: 14 million users. XuetangX: 9.3

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. I don’t follow higher education very closely, so this is all from 20 feet away. Six Common Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education. Competency-Based Education, at least in terms of the learning process (as opposed to content), should be more student-centered and efficient.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. Among them: Are crypto-entrepreneurs imagining better systems for education—or just systems that pay off better financially for themselves? That’s not a new ideology within education. That includes higher education.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

The other was edX, a nonprofit funded by MIT and Harvard, with high-minded talk by university provosts and presidents about bringing elite education to the world. It has the most users of any provider of MOOCs (as the large-scale online courses are sometimes called), claiming more than 77 million learners. "EdX Downsides of Openness?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” 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.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

A few years ago, MOOCs graced the covers of newspapers as a way to bring college to the masses on the cheap. It was called PSI, or Personalized System of Instruction. It was low-tech, but it foreshadowed some of the adaptive learning systems of today. At some point, gamification was going to be the answer.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Using mobile for educational purposes is a slightly new concept. 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. Learning Management System (LMS).

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

More than 70 efforts are underway around the world to use blockchain technology in education, and most set their sights on better connecting people with job opportunities, according to a new report published by the American Council on Education. Department of Education. These include: the costs of setting up ledger systems.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

But you might not realize how many educational podcasts are out there. By educational, we mean shows that focus on some super-focused topic, like a specific period of history or an academic discipline. You’re not getting really wealthy or even famous through educational audio. It's well-known that podcasting is huge these days.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. I think we’ve seen this reemergence—unintentionally—in the form of MOOCs. I typically build MOOCs, but this spring, I designed an online program for a cohort of 16 nonprofit leaders.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2022

The system of recording information secures digital data in a way that makes it traceable and difficult to alter. The possibilities for applying this type of system in education are extensive. Setting personal and academic information in stone may actually counter the mission of education to help people evolve over time.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And while many educators believe that word problems in math class are tougher for students to grasp than ones with mathematical notation, research shows that the opposite is true. A substantial part of the nation’s resources are being devoted to higher education,” Simon said. But at a university? “We

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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. I agree with the Washington State department of education, which argued that most schools won't be able to switch to online; they should just close and pick up in the summer or September.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Ashok Goel has a vision for the future of education. The professor of computer science and cognitive science at Georgia Institute of Technology believes every student and researcher should have access to artificially intelligent assistants that not only help them study facts and figures, but also collaborate more closely with other humans.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

We know that education technology is a swiftly growing field. However, before adopting a technology platform for your educational institution, we need to take a step back to analyze why your institution really need such a product. Parents and students are looking at education differently than ever before.

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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.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 30, 2021

As part of the deal Harvard and MIT will launch a new and so far unnamed education nonprofit. For more information, here are the official announcements from 2U , MIT , Harvard , and what seems to be the nonprofit’s placeholder, “ Transforming Digital Education.” As Paul Fain put it , “MOOCs have become OPMs.”

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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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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 14, 2017

Image from Carpe Diem I was sent a pre-publication copy of Cathy Davidson's new book The New Education recently, to review. She is a doyen of the progressive education movement, and her ideas are far reaching and influential. the teacher's authority, the broadcast model of pedagogy - all the components of higher education.'

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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. That means, for one thing, you end up with a Secretary of Education or with a prominent investor/philanthropist or governor or pundit claiming that schools haven't changed in hundreds of years. We have seen this repeatedly in education.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 26, 2017

But for all the sophistication of the Internet age, the idea of getting top quality college courses online for free, and using them for credits in the traditional college system, is only now being tested. A college education is crucial in determining your future. A Moral Imperative.

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Linways Technologies

MARCH 31, 2020

How the functioning of an entire Educational Institution can be brought to a virtual platform using Linways AMS. But why do we still rely on schools or colleges to pursue our education? This sets institutional education apart from the MOOCs, or online course delivery tools. The answer is very simple.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

We’ll see big growth in higher education services from outside of the university sector, a continued gnashing of teeth from established providers. 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 focus is on tertiary education.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 28, 2020

The Discuss Education BarCamp was a gathering of educators, academicians, and education enthusiasts to discuss about teaching-learning, learning theories, and ways to improve learning. He spoke on assessment strategies in the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) framework. What needs to be said about the system we are following.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The Online Learning Consortium (OLC), one of the 12 partner organizations of Every Learner Everywhere, was charged with identifying and understanding innovations in the digital education landscape. The first goal was to create an environmental scan of the digital learning environment in higher education with a focus on adaptive technology.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

This week we’re discussing the first chapter of Richard DeMillo’s Revolution in Higher Education: How a Small Band of Innovators Will Make College Accessible and Affordable (2015) ( publisher ; Amazon ). A larger theme, hit more forcefully in the book’s introduction, is broadening access to higher education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Proponents of the liberal arts love to explain how an excellent general education will teach students to learn how to learn for a lifetime. Our current system of traditional higher education is ill-suited to facilitate flexible, seamless cost-effective learning pathways for these students to keep up with the emergent demands of the workforce.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

And lately, the topic has made its way into discussions around digital credentials in higher education. He said that currently, most degree-awarding systems are structured in a way that assumes students stay at one institution before graduation, when in-fact many transfer, making it difficult for them to keep track of different records.

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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. It was started by one of the co-founders of Blackboard, now a household name in education technology. But they are not done with higher education yet. Child is disengaged.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

Jongbok Byun flipped his entire life upside down to pursue his dream of becoming an educator. he’s been using virtual labs to create more realistic learning opportunities for online students—changes he believes will make quality education more authentic and accessible for all learners.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 27, 2015

Last week we looked at the first four qualities that Tom Whitby and I layout in our book The Relevant Educator and believe all Relevant, Connected educators posses. Just to recap: Practices and Models Lifelong Learning -For educators, learning should never stop. If you haven''t had a chance, check out Part One of this series.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. conflicts with China and Russia, I thought it useful to take a look at digital education in those two countries.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 30, 2016

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 the last full chapter, “A Social Contract.” Social inequality is growing.” ” (5621).

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

” What does open education mean for higher education? 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. “We are in the learning century!”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

While online education companies offer engineering, programming and business skills, one company wants to make sure that the fine arts isn’t being left behind. Joining the MOOC party As formal college education becomes more unaffordable, online education has become a popular alternative or supplement.

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