Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

One source for insights on how to proceed is the cross-pollination that takes place when educators working in separate spheres learn from one another. In addition to taking into account the shorter attention spans for younger learners, less lecturing gives teachers time to focus on aspects of learning other than acquisition of knowledge.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning. By looking at research into online learning and human development, we can begin to grapple with the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Let’s start with the basics.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. Downsides of Openness?

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. Industry reports and instructional designers alike typically report that only between 5 to 15 percent of students who start free open online courses end up earning a certificate. Use the power of peer pressure.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 3, 2016

A recent move by a leading United Kingdom learning platform to issue academic credits toward a degree for students who complete open online courses could signal a forthcoming trend in the U.S. It’s the beginning of the unbundling of higher education and making it more accessible to more people than ever before,” he said.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He But the course won’t be offered through a university, like many of the other online classes on Coursera. He left the company in 2014.) Several of the courses Deeplearning.ai

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2022

On a blockchain, informal learning could also be included and verified , such as information about research experience, individual projects and skills, mentoring or online learning. Technology that makes alternative learning sharable and verifiable elevates these learning paths.

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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. To those working in higher education, some of the trends presented by the team may not have come as a surprise.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Could the rise in MOOC-based and other certificates affect how traditional college degree paths are designed? What role should employers have in the design or execution of digital learning opportunities? For example, our student base of 150,000 students is only 38 percent in the U.S. Our student population is totally global.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

Asynchronous learning generally uses technology that enables students to access course materials on their own. program would be a decent example of this. Wikipedia could be one of the most ambitious and affecting asynchronous learning communities the world has ever known.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

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. Byun talks to EdSurge about how virtual labs promote active, authentic and accessible learning, and the future of online education.

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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. Look out for rhizomatic learning. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. Introduction.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The researchers talk excitedly about big data helping higher education discover its Holy Grail: learning that is so deeply personalized that it both keeps struggling students from dropping out and pushes star performers to excel. Unsure about what to do, many colleges and universities are restricting researchers’ access to student data.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 14, 2017

Cathy Davidson is quite critical of current the higher education system, citing numerous examples of how creativity is stifled and how '.the She does however, see a future for blended campus learning, where traditional forms of education stand side by side with online learning in all its forms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Can online learning and digital tools help learners save money? On Tuesday, June 12 the #DLNchat community got together to dive into how improving digital learning could help institutions pass along savings to students, and how technology might also help reduce indirect costs for college attendance.

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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. Bonk mentioned examples from TEC-Variety.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

As online learning companies compete for the attention and wallets of learners, players like MasterClass , Linked Learning , Cognotion and Harvard are investing in producing videos that are so beautiful they could be National Geographic documentaries or sitcom pilots. Educational media is at an inflection point.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

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. We want education to be accessible.

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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. Look out for rhizomatic learning. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. Introduction.

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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. It’s depressing shorthand for skepticism about online education in general. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. This skepticism is not unwarranted.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

Another persistent trend is challenges caused by growing user numbers and activites, including both generating and demanding more data, online behavior abuses, security threats, and challenges about accessibility. Another problem less well discussed is the challenge of accessibility. Can’t U’s use tech the same way?”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. He quickly began supplementing his education with online courses from Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. complete multiple MOOCs. complete multiple MOOCs. Accordingly, this online course is a service employers are willing to pay for.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

A quick round of introductions revealed some interesting trends: a growing number of liberal arts institutions are launched or growing online learning programs; many sought to find the distinct ways liberal arts institutions, and campuses pursuing liberal education, can use technology. Good things are happening and possible.”

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. For example, “There are 1000 more degree-granting colleges and universities today [2015, presumably] than there were in 1996.” million in fall 1994 to 17.6 ” (!) .”

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 18, 2016

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. For example, “There are 1000 more degree-granting colleges and universities today [2015, presumably] than there were in 1996.” million in fall 1994 to 17.6 ” (!) .”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 1, 2021

Powerful learning with universal access: Uruguay’s CEIBAL program. Blended and online learning with Catlin Tucker. MOOCs and open education in Southeast Asia. It’s a world of learning at the World Bank. Nepali high school students in MOOCs. Interactive XR learning aids in Myanmar and beyond.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Some problems are already being solved in creative ways by educators setting an example of the way forward, while others are more difficult and haven’t yet been solved. As more learning moves into digital spaces, this access gap has the potential to deepen the achievement and opportunity gaps, rather than close them.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

But other departments already provide the backbone (internet connectivity, access to hardware, etc) and can afford – even desire – to let Domain projects go on. Mentions If This Then That as an empowering example, offering another metaphor of railroads. For example: Googling people to learn about them.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

But other departments already provide the backbone (internet connectivity, access to hardware, etc) and can afford – even desire – to let Domain projects go on. Mentions If This Then That as an empowering example, offering another metaphor of railroads. For example: Googling people to learn about them.

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Trends LMS Data MOOC 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. The LMS giant Blackboard celebrated its 20th anniversary this year. (I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Writing about online learning in higher education over the last several years, I often noted the steady growth of remote learning nationwide against the sluggish adoption of digital instruction among most Ivy League colleges. And some Ivies offer graduate certificate programs online.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

When implementing blended learning within the classroom, teachers may have to produce additional materials for the pupils to use. In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. What is a blended learning approach?

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

But these are isolated examples. Originally I thought the academic staff member should be the creator and designer of online learning for their subjects. I didn’t have to worry about online collaboration, synchronous web based communications, maker spaces or even the degree of blend between online and offline learning.

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

But these are isolated examples. Originally I thought the academic staff member should be the creator and designer of online learning for their subjects. I didn’t have to worry about online collaboration, synchronous web based communications, maker spaces or even the degree of blend between online and offline learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Blended learning is a learning model that combines digital and face-to-face learning experiences. ” It is generally accepted that there are four models of blended learning: Rotation, Flex, A La Carte, and Enriched Virtual. Mobile Learning. Harvard Education Center For Teaching & Learning.

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