Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

The announcement, from The Minerva Project, enters a longstanding debate about whether online education can drastically cut the cost of education by reducing the number of instructors needed to teach. Early MOOC experiments had more than 100,000 students per course. This is not an operation where one person does it.

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Video MOOC Coursera Company 132

Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

As a result, we’re pausing to reflect on what we’ve learned from our work, yes, from our readers. First the numbers: In the past year, we have published more than 300 articles about the shifting trends in higher ed, education technology and digital learning. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Pass it on!

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MOOC Trends Learning EdTech 67

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Somewhere between our collective obsession with predictive analytics and infatuation with adaptive learning, higher education wonks and practitioners are making time to deconstruct the quality attributes of online courses. Does our current quality evaluation ensure a wonderful learning experience? Relationships Matter.

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MOOC Course Online Learning Adaptive Learning 139

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Some people researching education technology might not spend their days wondering how their work fits into this existential question—but George Siemens isn’t "some people." That’s his explanation for how he thinks about the role of education in the 21st century. A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy.

Digital Learning 60

Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. But as some disappointed investors have learned last year, the actual market value and performance behind “unicorns” may be as illusory as their nickname. funding) Can Investors Make Money and Do Good in Education?

EdTech 60

EdTech lynda.com Education Company 60

Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population.

Trends 40

Trends Technology MOOC Education 40

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models. The field has deep roots in distance education, human computer interaction, and visual design. Lesson 2: Ground yourself in the fundamentals of learning science.

Udemy 134

Udemy Course Coursera MOOC 134

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow.

Technology 62

Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to support educators and learners across preK-12 and postsecondary education. In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S.

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EdTech Coursera Knewton Analysis 139

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

The edtech entrepreneurs, educators, investors and other education professionals that share their opinions and practices through storytelling on our site are invaluable to this industry, and we celebrate them. Educators and Administrators—From the 'Instruct' Newsletter Adaptive learning. Personalized learning.

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Chromebook Industry EdTech MOOC 60

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 15, 2015

New applications and technologies are now embedded into practically every aspect of the learning experience. Schools are organizing databases around students that look at multiple performance indicators, and now, more than ever, learning is informed and registered through collections of data points and not just a grade.

Assessment 40

Assessment MOOC EdTech Data 40

Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

The overall cost of higher education has been continuously increasing, as is evident by the rise in the textbook prices. 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? What Is a Subscription Model?

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OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Markman recently talked with EdSurge about how his insights can help educators. Because the brain is a complicated organ; it's embedded in social systems, in cultural systems, and it's constantly learning. You can't raise somebody in a closet so that they don't learn a language, right? So that also complicates the science.

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Training Flipped Classroom Study Trends 132

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. Lesson learned #2: Show up prepared, or you are doomed to fail. The list goes on and on.

EdTech 40

EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Last week, during the 2015 CoSN Annual Conference , I participated in the CoSN Camp FailFest where leaders in education shared professional failures in order to see future successes. Lesson learned #1: Eyeballs are not a business model. Lesson learned #2: Show up prepared, or you are doomed to fail. The list goes on and on.

EdTech 40

EdTech Differentiated Instruction Gamification MOOC 40

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2019

It’s common these days to hear that free online mega-courses, called MOOCs, failed to deliver on their promise of educating the masses. Now, one of the first professors to try out MOOCs says he has a way to reuse bits and pieces of the courses created during that craze in a way that might deliver on the initial promise.

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MOOC Knewton Education Adaptive Learning 143

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

These trends present great risks in a job market that is already polarized and biased toward knowledge work and technology skills, with growing gaps based on educational attainment. There is growing acknowledgement and new evidence that this situation is worsening equity gaps in the job market and within higher education.

Learning 176

Learning Digital Badges E-rate MOOC 176

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

For context, we need to go a little father back, to the piece last week on Wired– The Techies Who Are Hacking Education by Homeschooling Their Kids –that is getting a lot of run on twitter recently. So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Adaptive learning apps. Learning simulations.

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Khan Academy Libraries MOOC eBook 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is the second part of my much-abbreviated look at the stories that were told about education technology in 2018 – and in this case, the people who funded the storytellers. Peilian.com (music education): $150 million. DreamBox Learning (adaptive learning): $130 million. Coursera (online education): $210.1

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2017

Personalized learning is not a product you can buy — it’s a set of strategies that teachers can implement, sometimes with the help of products that are designed to support those strategies. Personalized learning, adaptive learning, potato, potahto. Koedinger is a noted researcher of advanced adaptive learning systems.

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Personalized Learning Adaptive Learning Learning MOOC 60

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 20, 2015

A Visual Cheat Sheet For Education Technology. And lately, education has had its share of innovation, whether it’s showing up in your local public school/K-20 classroom or not. Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC). Blended Learning. Asynchronous Learning. Adaptive Learning. Informal Learning.

CMS 40

CMS Technology MOOC Gamification 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. Increasingly formal use of social media by education institutions. 30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom.

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Examples Classroom Maker Movement Social Media 40

Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

The Chronicle adopted a modified version of the format during a session at the South by Southwest Edu conference in March, with a panel of experts weighing in on five new products or ideas to fix pressing problems in higher education. For that, we invented a concept called Learning Gadgets. Learning Gadgets are almost like little apps.

E-rate 28

E-rate Company Course MOOC 28

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Education Politics. Via Education Week : “ Maine Gov. Paul LePage has called for a review of his state’s groundbreaking 1-to–1 student computing initiative, highlighting the growing pains nagging an educational-technology movement now well into its second decade.” ” Education in the Courts.

Education 52

Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Education Politics. From the Department of Education’s press release : “U.S. Secretary of Education Announces Chief of Staff and Additional Staff Hires.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “DeVos Withdraws Obama-Era Memos Focused on Improving Loan Servicing.”

Education 44

Education E-rate MOOC Data 44

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Online courses helped kick off a movement promising that your zipcode no longer had to determine the quality of education you received. A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Online Learning and Non-traditional Students. Connection-Driven experiences emphasize who you’ll learn with and from.

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Coursera MOOC Education Khan Academy 99

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. Seymour, as my friend Gary Stager has described him , was the “inventor of everything (good) in education.” This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. I do so in Seymour’s memory.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

This keynote was delivered today at the Irish Learning Technology Association's annual conference, EdTech2016, in Dublin. I’m not sure we talk often enough about technology-enhanced learning in these terms – as a political not merely pedagogical practice. The full slidedeck is available here.

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Conference Course MOOC Technology 63

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education.

Lenovo 51

Lenovo Education Facebook MOOC 51

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. ” The Department of Education’s press release has more.

Education 43

Education Company Blackboard Kaplan 43

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2016

Adaptive courseware. Such are the tools that many education entrepreneurs are building—and which educators are increasingly adopting—to improve outcomes for students. Our aim: to amplify the voices of students from all backgrounds to shape how higher education is evolving. If Credits Don’t Reflect What I Learn, What Does?

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Adaptive Learning MOOC Trends Report 75

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

“But adaptive-learning technologies are bullsh*t, c’mon,” one of us would say. I see your perspective, but think about it this way,” another might respond, “Your dystopian visions of tech mean less when you think about the millions of students who aren’t learning now. and “ Standardization in Testing: Necessary for Education? ”.

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Adaptive Learning Facebook Conference MOOC 60

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

(National) Education Politics. US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos launched a “rethink schools” tour. ” DeVos visited my hometown of Casper, Wyoming to give this speech where she spoke at the Woods Learning Center. .” State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education.

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Education ProctorU Company Report 51

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Trump to Nominate U.

Education 43

Education Pearson Company Blackboard 43

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

Education Politics. The Education and Justice Departments have notified every public school district in the country with a “Dear Colleague” letter that discrimination against transgender students , particularly over which bathroom they can use, violates federal civil rights law. Will the legislation do more harm than good?”

Education 52

Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education.

Education 43

Education MOOC E-rate Coursera 43

Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education.

Education 44

Education Elsevier MOOC Knewton 44