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. The research entails the use of qualitative measures and data mining.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

The hype around the free online courses called MOOCs has drawn millions of students, who are all essentially part of a teaching experiment of unprecedented scale. A new report, released on Thursday, seeks to answer the question “Where is research on massive open online courses headed?”

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2022

Last year marked the first time that the majority of new courses launched by Coursera weren’t from universities, according to analysis by Dhawal Shah, founder of the MOOC discovery platform Class Central. Entry-level industry certificates are receiving a lot of attention these days.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S. Our analysis excludes companies whose primary business is to offer loans and happens to serve students (like Social Finance, which raised $500 million earlier this year). Our analysis for the first half of 2019 only looks at U.S.

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EdTech Coursera Knewton Analysis 141

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

This means that the educators who spend time designing the curriculum and building the course earn pennies on the dollar compared to the profits now earned by the Silicon Valley platforms where the courses are hosted. Today, few higher-ed institutions are able to sustain the ongoing costs associated with producing and running MOOCs.

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Online Learning MOOC lynda.com Industry 67

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

Community colleges are staking a claim in the territory of online course marketplaces. Courses For Jobs, Not For Credit Unmudl advertises its services as being for “grown-ups” who are looking for “a better job in weeks instead of years.” Some courses are entirely online, while others are designed to have in-person components.

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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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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 1, 2019

One of these days, after I’ve retired, I’m going to write a radically restructured, OER-based freshman music theory course, based on research I did early in my career and what I’ve learned about good teaching since then. Something has always stuck out to me about the freshmen music theory course.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 8, 2012

He also works on the design of information/reasoning systems for intelligence analysis. His current research is focused on the use of different media to teach and communicate mathematics to diverse audiences.

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MOOC Blackboard Education Analysis 59

Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

In today’s examination system, when we consider the bloom taxonomy, bottom-level memorization occupies a dominant place, while comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation are of less importance. This approach focuses on what students can achieve at the end of a course, as well as their progress after each assessment.

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Assessment Strategy Outcomes Education 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

But officials in Minnesota say the professional program could still fall under state regulations designed for degree programs, which would require Udacity to register with the state if it wants to offer online courses to its residents. The letter asked Udacity to provide more information about its programs. 61 to 136A.71), 61 to 136A.71),

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Wired Campus

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Concerns about Yik Yak and analysis of MOOCs and online teaching were among the most popular stories this past year on our Wired Campus blog. And while massive open online courses have largely fallen out of the national headlines, three of the top 10 articles in 2015 involved MOOCs (in one case, charting their fade from prominence).

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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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MindShift

APRIL 7, 2015

Efforts to innovate new models for college education have led to flipped classrooms , in-class student respond systems, sophisticated online courses, massive open online courses (MOOCs) and multimedia lectures–and now games have joined the fray. Transforming the grading system in Sheldon’s class was only the beginning.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2016

These are my observations about what’s happened in education technology (and education more broadly) over the course of the past 12 months. Who’s Funding MOOCs in 2016? Who’s Funding Corporate Training Startups? Who’s Funding Job Placement Startups? Who’s Funding Learn-to-Code Startups?

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Wired Campus

APRIL 23, 2015

For students taking courses online, the endless distractions of the Internet can be a hindrance to success. That’s the takeaway from a new study, which found that limiting distractions can help students perform better and also improve course completion. Students were surveyed both before and after the course.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. “ Unique International College used a misleading and unlawful scheme to target vulnerable communities in 2014 and 2015, pushing individuals to enrol in courses in management, salon management and marketing.” State and Local) Education Politics.

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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. Clearly, the tensions he identifies require some analysis.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Khan, MOOCs, boot camps, career academies, even what is seen as enrollment “swirl” in community college courses reflect the demand for just-in-time, just-enough learning, often focused on achieving specific competencies. Competencies are the starting point for defining learning pathways that lead to well-defined achievements.

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Competency Based Learning MOOC Outcomes Analysis 40

Learning with 'e's

MAY 2, 2019

Alternative modes Today, education has expanded beyond traditional learning spaces into distance education , blended learning, flipped classrooms , mobile learning, and online delivery through technologies such as MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses ).

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Even though the cost of delivering online courses was then far less than on campus, we worried that if colleges set a lower price for remote instruction, students and their families might get the wrong impression, with lower prices signaling that digital learning was less valuable. And of course a college degree does have an economic payoff.

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MOOC Coursera Survey Study 204

Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. Augment, not replace, of course. MOOCs were going to change everything. Their products will make teachers’ work easier, faster, companies have always promised. And on and on and on.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 3, 2018

Kira Baker-Doyle shares the personal journey of a literacy teacher educator learning to code in order to detail the intersections of ELA education and computer programming and suggest how a combined analysis of the two can foster new understandings of critical literacy and civic engagement.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The CEO of Strayer Education, Karl McDonnell, admits that some of Strayer University’s online courses were boring and monotonous—essentially narration over slides bearing clip-art. So the for-profit is expanding an effort to apply techniques from Hollywood storytelling to its course materials. I pop in to teach elements,” Coles says.

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Course Khan Academy MOOC Trends 94

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Integrating Learning and Work in Service of Adult Learners Adult learners are typically driven by career-related motivations: according to one analysis, 70 percent of adult learners say that gaining skills and knowledge directly related to the workplace is essential when choosing where to enroll.

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Digital Badges Coursera Learning Industry 181

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

“Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” Clowns are not necessarily monstrous, of course.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Investors in tutoring companies this year included Warbug Pincus, Goldman Sachs, Learn Capital, Y Combinator, the Omidyar Network, Sequoia Capital, TAL Education, Tencent, Google, and of course, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.)

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. It holds true for my work too, of course.)

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It’s an intense research project that usually tops out at about 75,000 words, written over the course of four to six weeks. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.). .”

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

How can colleges and universities share courses online? The answer has been “yes” for some years, and I’m not talking about MOOCs or University of Phoenix. Students had positive learning outcomes in these courses, and faculty and peer assessors ranked student outcomes favorably. ” ( More here ).

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs. In all of the interviews that he conducted, what became evident was that the course did not serve as the central point of knowledge. In reality, a course is just one node in the network of possibilities for how to make sense of the content.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

To be successful, the underlying analysis must be grounded in an appreciation for the structural aspects of competitive advantage, on the one hand, and an understanding of the structure of the targeted educational industry sector, on the other. Time will tell whether these changes were too little, too late.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses. inek vizsgálata - Szöll?si

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Wired Campus

MARCH 13, 2015

Speaking at a separate session, he cited the increasing flows of data to which colleges have access, including from learning-management systems, student-success systems, and MOOCs. “My Of course, it’s hard for colleges to tell which new education products are effective in the classroom.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

And they could be critical for baseline analysis of student skills and formative assessment. Argument Analysis : Students compare and evaluate two posts from a newspaper’s comment section. Homepage Analysis : Students identify advertisements on a news website. For more information. But wait, there’s more! .

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Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Our analysis highlights a world in which learning is increasingly more digital, delivered when it is needed, and done in shorter and less structured ways than in the past. Employees, of course, often desire skill development that can be recognized externally and has career-long value beyond their current employer.

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