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.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2022

When The Wall Street Journal published their article centered around [Louisiana State University's] lazy river , it became the canonical example of university services being run to excess, with lots of entrepreneurs stepping up to "unbundle" the university with faster/cheaper/better options.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Seeing that I’m fully invested in online professional development for educators through both COETAIL and Eduro Learning , I’m always on the look out for research on how to make online learning better. An article overview of the the research can be found here. . Check out our online courses at Eduro Learning here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 8, 2012

He has written 31 books and over 80 published research articles. Other research interests include: theory of information, models of reasoning, applications of mathematical techniques in the study of communication, and mathematical cognition.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

After choosing Minecraft as an in-class resource, I found that not everyone knew how to play—including me! Many students go on to create such guides themselves, learning how to edit wikis and take screenshots, or capture, narrate and edit in-game footage in the process. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube.

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ProfHacker

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

This post is inspired by an article called The Tyranny of Structurelessness by Jo Freeman. Thanks to Gardner Campbell for sharing it while collaboratively annotating an article for the #OpenLearning17 MOOC. The same occurs in connectivist MOOCs (cMOOCs). These “rules” are hidden.

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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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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Class Central’s Dhawal Shah, writing in Edsurge : “ MOOCs Find Their Audience: Professional Learners and Universities.” State and Local) Education Politics.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

As an instructional designer who has been building MOOCs for the past five years, I’ve been asked this question more times than I count. MOOCs have been called abysmal , disappointing failures. The average completion rate for MOOCs (including the ones I design) hovers between 5-15 percent. This skepticism is not unwarranted.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 20, 2018

I was pleased to read this quote from a recent article, “ Google spent years studying effective teams — and one trait stood out ,” which stated what was most important to the success of teams: What mattered most: Trust. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! It was psychological safety.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. We’d learn how to make our own maps using Google’s mapping tools , then check out the maps that others have made.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

They’re communities of people who share a pot of cryptocurrency and who decide by voting how to spend that money—kind of like a co-op. Folks in the crypto space are questioning whether industries can be reimagined to operate in ways that are “less extractive, and more community-owned,” Allen says. That includes higher education.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Over the last few years, we’ve traded resources, articles and work samples as we try to build our own starter kit for this fast-moving field. Teachers have spent decades learning how to reliably help students master new skills, debunk misconceptions, and connect their prior knowledge to new concepts.

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Mistakengoal.com

JULY 21, 2014

I feel an obligation to bring closure to the historical work I began a few years ago so I will be spending the next several months working with primary sources and reworking old drafts into publishable articles. Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation.

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 15, 2017

We should continuously ask questions on how we can best serve our students now and in the future, while still trying to figure out how to work within the constraints of a school system. I read an article recently, and it talked about “unbiased experts” and it stopped me in my tracks. That is always your best bet.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Learn how to learn. Here’s how to make this easy, from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor: In the past, a university degree provided a majority of graduates with the skills they needed to succeed in their chosen careers. Yet many students do not have a solid understanding of how to effectively go about the process of upskilling.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In a History course I can give students a passage from an article and ask them to Identify three connections they see in the article and what they have learned in the course. In your answer, draw from three specific course materials (texts, characters, discussions, etc…).

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

As this article was being written, the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, forcing a global experiment in online education as schools and colleges closed their doors and moved teaching to online formats. The digital tutor asks questions or gives nudges depending on how close the student is to completing the task correctly.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 3, 2018

While these pieces often went into great detail about how young people responded to the innovative learning opportunities designed by the educators in their lives, they did not usually delve deeply into how these educators developed the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that helped them design these opportunities in the first place.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 30, 2017

I tweeted this article from Tina Seelig , “Teaching — It’s about Inspiration, Not Information “, and asked the following question on Twitter: Curious what you think about this quote from Tina Seelig? If you do, they will inevitably do the minimum amount to get the grade they want.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

I recently came upon a pair of contradictory articles about what colleges will be charging for tuition next academic year: One reporting that Ohio State University found reasons last month to nearly double its online tuition , and another noting that some colleges are in a race to lower tuition.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update August 19th, 2014 Perhaps the greatest joy is learning how to motivate yourself. Each week we interview teachers, principals, superintendents, authors and presenters to learn about how to become more effective educators! A recent article by T. Mix Up Your Classroom Library.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The New York Times : “ Karlie Kloss Teaches Teenage Girls How to Code.” National) Education Politics. Her remarks.) “Many are never the same.”

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EdTechTeacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

His graduate and undergraduate courses help current and future educators understand how to use and take advantage of the educational potential offered by the tools of connectivity. One day, Alec says that he tweeted out that he was thinking of starting a MOOC. Within a short time, he had over 2000 participants from 75 countries.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since I think it is crucial for students to think about the idea of “success” in their own terms, I wanted to provide three articles that may be good for discussion. If this article challenges you, that is a good thing for both you and your students. I loved this part of the article: 1) Success Brings Happiness?

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

How to learn more about edtech options. Although teachers have advanced resources, many are unsure how best to implement them in the classroom. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are also excellent resources, offering free classes from world-renowned universities. Take a degree course. Reach out to the experts.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Yesterday IHE published an article about the “ inclusive access ” programs offered by most major textbook publishers. The inclusive access model’s goal of reducing the cost of textbooks apparently reminded the article’s author of OER, because she includes some discussion of OER toward the end of the article.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In the original article, I gave a list of what computing skills mathematics majors should learn and when they should learn them. The person emailing me was wondering if I had any updates on that list or any new ideas, seven years on from writing the article. Instead, bring it in and teach students how to use it well.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

It’s beneficial for students because, The use of the flipped classroom model means pupils become more familiar with technology and how to use it in a professional environment, rather than to solely communicate with their friends or play games. His easy know-how presentations will make you flip out of your seat and get started asap!

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I know there was the article by Nicole Mirra, but I am guessing there is a background why this topic is close to your heart and also why you think hashtagging it is a good direction to take the conversation further. My dad (a doctor) always thought he knew better how to fix computer problems than me.

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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. Decide what is suitable to offer online – and then how to best use your time in the classroom. Don’t assume they know. What is blended learning in the classroom?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

Check out their article, How to Create an Infographic Syllabus. I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Piktochart is a free infographic tool. Read a step by step approach from an instructor with lots of examples here. Find several syllabus infographics for various subjects here.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 9, 2013

million articles in English, and many more in other languages. And that should give all of use some clues as to how to facilitate self-organising learning spaces. ." - Albert Einstein The social web is replete with self-organising spaces. Take Wikipedia for example. Often this is because it is something of an alien concept to them.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

One article reported that Udacity, a company that creates large-scale online courses, budgeted $200,000 per course, while edX charged $250,000 for its design and consulting services. So let’s take a look a little more calmly at how to go online without going bust.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

” The article goes on to point out some examples of this kind of dilemma, and how certain businesses responded. General insecurity or misunderstanding about how to meaningfully integrate technology in the classroom. MOOCs, nanodegrees, etc. Change in credibility of a high school diploma or college degree.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 11, 2014

The call for volunteers will go out this week, so be on the lookout for how to get involved! There is a burden being carried by CA school districts, each struggling individually with how to manage technology policies and guidelines appropriately for the future. Learning Revolution Conference Online. Classroom 2.0 Try it out this week!

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