Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

The nonprofit MOOC platform edX, originally started by MIT and Harvard University at a time when pundits predicted large-scale online courses could replace college for some people, is trying yet another new approach, launching the first of what it calls a “MicroBachelors” program.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

A lot has changed since 2012 or, the year the New York Times dubbed the "Year of the MOOC." The premise back then was that classes would make high-quality online education accessible for all—and for free. Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee. So the rate at which new users are coming into the MOOC space is decreasing.

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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

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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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Students all over the world have access to knowledge, resources, and experts to help them learn in rich ways and accomplish great things. Participants in my current free online course, The Goal-Minded Teacher MOOC ( #EduGoalsMOOC ), designed learning missions this past week to inspire their learners.

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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. This means giving people small chambers of engagement where they can interact with a smaller, more manageable and yet still diverse groups. These design choices have noticeable implications.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

In my 2014 book “ MOOCS Essentials ,” I reflected on each aspect of the residential learning process and how developers of massive open online courses were trying to replicate those experiences virtually, or come up with ways to keep students engaged without direct teacher-student interaction.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Instead, MOOC providers see an opportunity in helping medical professionals keep their knowledge and skills up to date after they graduate, a field also known as continuing medical education (CME). The draw to host these courses on MOOC platforms, Butler says, is the chance to reach a wider audience. MOOCs, The New OPM?

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

When free online courses known as MOOCs began to take off in 2012 , their pitch to investors often included jargon around “disrupting” the way education is accessed and consumed. We are realizing that the vast reach of MOOCs makes them a powerful gateway to degrees,” Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda said in a statement.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

51Talk (or “China Online Education Group”), China’s leading online education platform and the first from China listed on the NYSE (NYSE: COE), was invited to attend the summit alongside education industry leaders such as Pearson, Amazon, and YouTube. .” ” Angela Cerrato says to use the following tips: 1.

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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. Without a University Involved.).

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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 21, 2021

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google.

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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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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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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

We are moving direct instruction to the individual space and doing active learning to the group space, and that active learning is more difficult.” There, students enrolled in the online or in-person course can access a discussion board about the course to ask questions or see how others got through a certain challenge.

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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. Unguided communities tend to have difficulty progressing beyond the second stage of development, because group members can become distracted from the community’s intended purpose.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

It has also led to the rise of new groups, called DAOs, that are experimenting with less-hierarchical ways to conduct business. 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. That includes higher education.

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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

MARCH 19, 2014

Last week, the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change , began. As a Technology Coordinator, I realized that I needed to harness the power of this group. Students have access to these technologies in their personal lives already. You can still register for the MOOC-Ed and participate!

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2020

Previous investors Kleiner Perkins, SEEK Group, Learn Capital, SuRo Capital Corp, and G Squared also participated. It offers access to Coursera’s online library to workforce development agencies that want to reskill recently unemployed workers. This latest deal gives the Mountain View, Calif.-based based company an estimated $2.5

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Yet, one group was struggling for ideas. 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. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube. IrvSpanish.

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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? Many #DLNchat-ters define them as MOOC providers including edX and Coursera and bootcamps such as General Assembly and Kenzie Academy. But first, who are these nontraditional providers? Cali Morrison, Ed.D. asked Andrew Magda.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

If 2012 was “ The Year of the MOOC ”—massive open online courses, usually offered for free—2017 could be “The Year of the Microcredential.” Proponents say the new offerings will expand access to graduate education and help workers update their skills in fast-changing fields.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2016

Some studies found that about five percent of those enrolled in massive open online courses (known as MOOCs) completed the course. Librarians at Chicago Public Library (CPL) partnered with the nonprofit Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU) to make online education more accessible through this program. .

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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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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. Online exams, assignments, group discussions, results, rank lists, various criteria involved in ranking like the scholarships or external points all need to be considered. Customization Options.

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EdNews Daily

APRIL 26, 2017

By launching these courses (along with free online texts and materials) and making them available to everyone who wants to expand their learning, educators have an opportunity to work with the government or major philanthropies to provide access to top quality college education for all. We can widen access to college education for everyone.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

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. That, Avida says, gives his tool a leg up in terms of being more accessible to a wider audience. But they are not done with higher education yet.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Gradescope is hardly the first group to give automated grading a shot. Other efforts such as MOOC platform edX’s Enhanced AI Scoring Engine have similarly tried to use automation to reduce the time educators spend on grading. To use Gradescope, a grader scans exams or assignments into the platform and each question is given a rubric.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

border, Tecnológico de Monterrey, a private university, founded in 1943 by a group of wealthy local business executives, supports 33 campuses across the nation and in 15 countries abroad. Poor Internet Access Cripples Online Higher Ed When the pandemic careened across the globe in spring 2020, U.S. South of the U.S.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment!

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