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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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

JULY 17, 2020

On Wednesday, CampusLogic, a provider of financial aid software to colleges and universities, raised $120 million. It offers access to Coursera’s online library to workforce development agencies that want to reskill recently unemployed workers. With that investment came bragging rights to the biggest funding round for a U.S.

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

Asynchronous learning generally uses technology that enables students to access course materials on their own. You could argue that students in an asynchronous online course need clear curriculum pathways, specific learning objectives, access to ‘more knowledgeable others’ (e.g.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Businesses today have to be more agile and have to be able to pivot—access to content needs to be very rapid,” says Lori Bradley, executive vice president for global talent management at PVH Corp, a publicly- traded fashion and apparel company with 35,000 employees. According to the Association for Talent Development, U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If few students answer the question correctly, the software can flag the professor, or the textbook author, to consider revising the content to make it clearer. At first sight, one might think they were employees coding the software, rather than the ones learning from it. There’s nothing glitzy about the software itself.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

For instance, one recent survey reported that 75% of the responding K-12 educators in the United States assessed their student’s access to technology in the classroom as “good” or “great” Roughly four out of five teachers planned to utilize these types of resources more extensively during the 2016 academic year.

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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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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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Digital Promise

JANUARY 12, 2015

To counter the deficit of IT professionals in rural areas like Pine City, the college has joined three partner schools to create Teaching in the Cloud, a program that gives students access to a virtualization hub that can teach them all aspects of cloud computing, from basic database management to dealing with cybersecurity attacks.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Libraries can and should be the epicenter of exploring, building and promoting these emerging techs, assuring the better futures and opportunities they offer are accessible to everyone. She is currently working on her upcoming book Libraries Supporting Online Learning: Digital Literacy, Open Access and Local Connectivity from ABC-CLIO.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 23, 2015

But using software to limit those diversions can make a big difference. He examined the online behavior of 657 students who participated in a nine-week MOOC on statistics offered by Stanford University. One of the most surprising findings was that the strongest students benefited from the software the most.

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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. Warren Chair of Computer Science and Professor of Management. DeMillo was named Lumina Foundation Fellow in recognition of his work in higher education.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

The synopsis reads: With the success of open access publishing, Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and open education practices, the open approach to education has moved from the periphery to the mainstream. The open source movement emerged, with an emphasis on efficiency, and on the rights to use and modify software and tools.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

If we believe education is a fundamental human right, then we go all out to provide good, affordable, accessible opportunities to learn the important things we will need to survive in an uncertain world. Others appear to be impossible to solve until someone comes up with a solution, and then we all say - ah yes, I can see the answer now.

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Perry Hewitt

APRIL 15, 2018

A new reseller model bringing internet access to villages in rural Mexico. Media interest in formalized online learning, or “peak MOOC,” occurred in about 2012, and with it the mandate that everyone must learn to code. A wheel design to eliminate road ruts for American farmers.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

Prices range from $12 for an online, on-demand class about quality improvement to $9,000 for an online, synchronous course teaching software engineering. The expenses of operating Unmudl are shared among the community college partners and employers who pay to have access to the platform. Who Benefits?

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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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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

A venture-backed for-profit called the Minerva Project created the college’s curriculum and software, and has raised more than $95-million. Some also argue that the proposed institution may largely serve well-off students and do little to address more urgent accessibility issues in higher education.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It’s free for students, but the software isn’t free for all—teachers must pay $7 a year and Pro users pay $29 annually. based automated grading software company, is trying to ease that pain. It’s the eighth startup project for CEO Cy Megnin, who’s raised $500,000 for the company so far. Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, Comprend.io

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

For example, Microsoft offers certification programs to professionals who wish to gain mastery of one or more of their varied software products. Massive Open Online Courses (Sometimes referred to as MOOCs) – MOOCs are readily available courses that are presented online. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 26, 2016

…the true benefit of the academy is the interaction, the access to the debate, to the negotiation of knowledge — not to the stale cataloging of content. However, we go beyond these definitions of open scholarship – beyond open access and public scholarship. Slideshare available here. – Dave Cormier and George Siemens.

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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.”) It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. I mean, one of its founders celebrated.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I hoped to move on from there to what I called “approaches”, ways of using tech that didn’t depend on a specific platform – i.e., gaming and gamification, blended learning, distance learning, MOOCs, mobile, and digital literacy. The other spoke of access, public financing, inequalities.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? Wikipedia defines the subscription model as a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service. a semester.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Students use laptops, tablets, and myriad software to complete in-class work and at-home assignments. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities. Integrated learning systems: Software solutions that deliver, monitor, and measure content with various tools.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Advancing Digital Equity and Scaling Innovation: Equal access to high-speed internet at home and at school remains a problem that educators can easily identify, but for which solutions are elusive. Educators see VR as a way to give students experiences that could promote empathy and expand access to novel locations.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

- Sue Toms, Head of Libraries WeChat, Library Chat: Exploring New Mobile Services for Students in China - Raymond Pun, Reference and Research Services Librarian Thursday, October 9 9:00am DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER: Ellen Tise on "Access to knowledge - reality or fantasy in the digital age" LibSat: Getting Ahead of Your Customer Satisfaction Issues - Jason (..)

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Her question prompts educators to not only choose their words and stories carefully, but to reflect on how well we plan for increased access to digital tools in schools. Technologists like Campbell, like me, see increased access as an opportunity to strengthen teaching and accelerate learning that schools may not recognize, much less seize.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. “Software is eating the world,” investor Marc Andreessen pronounced in a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2011. The quotation is from 2012.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

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. If blended learning activities are to continue beyond the classroom, consideration needs to be given as to whether pupils are going to have access to technology at home.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Fortunately, there is a vast amount of content already available, such as YouTube videos, MOOCs, multiple choice questions and web-based resources. Children may not have access to technology. In order to ensure pupils can access the resources, provision needs to be made to ensure that all children have a device to view the content.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Instead of thinking of [credentials] as a fixed, static thing, it’s thinking of them as pieces of software that are more dynamic and you can build on a number of them. Phil Long The blockchain endeavor at UT Austin, called ChainScript, builds off open-source software that MIT developed.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

A collection of software bundled by Google that is available on a subscription model for schools and classroom. An acronym for Massively Open Online Course, a digital course that allows asynchronous access to content. Imagine a teacher is delivering “Content 1,” and each student or group of students are then accessing 1A, 1B, 1C.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Or one could look at ed-tech companies that laid off staff: the coding bootcamp Galvanize , the analytics company Civitas Learning , the learning management system Schoology , MOOC provider Coursera , the education giant Pearson , for example. ” Instead, it said it would offer some diagnostic tools online.

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