Edsurge
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
The next big move came when instructional designers, as part of their skillset, turned to digital authoring systems, software introduced to stimulate engagement, encouraging virtual students to interface actively with digital materials, often by tapping at a keyboard or touching the screen as in a video game.
Edsurge
APRIL 16, 2019
Other companies sell software that can support video courses, though Minerva is unusual in that it develops curriculum and software designed to work together. Early MOOC experiments had more than 100,000 students per course. That doesn’t require a human being,” he says of asking a professor to monitor such a large-scale course.
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Edsurge
AUGUST 7, 2019
Last year, Great Hill also put in $110 million in Connexeo , a provider of school administration and payment software. Trilogy Education, which provides software-training bootcamps for universities, was acquired for $750 million by 2U. One example is Great Hill Partners, which invested in Examity in April. million and 2.5
Edsurge
MARCH 24, 2017
Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Try building a MOOC to meet that challenge—I’d love to read about it! But Jeff Young's piece about MOOCs and other online courseware providers' vying to trademark the degrees of the future is surely one of my favorites. The interview, “ Why U.
Edsurge
AUGUST 11, 2016
A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.
Edsurge
JANUARY 10, 2017
He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) Particularly disappointing to Greenfield are “adaptive learning” tools that aim to deliver customized content to learners based on data collected from their performance. Yet for Greenfield, that doesn’t mean taking unnecessary risks.
Gaggle Speaks
MARCH 25, 2015
I constantly play contrarian with our marketing team around using the latest education lingo: Project-Based Learning; Web 2.0; Collaborative Learning, 21st Century Skills; Blending Learning, Student Engagement, MOOC; Flipped Classroom; Gamification; Big Data. ” Lesson learned #3: Don’t chase trends.
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