TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples. In a 2016 article, ‘ Innovation in Higher Education: Can Colleges Really Change?’,

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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. Structurelessness does not prevent the formation of (informal) structures.

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

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Note: This article originally appeared in Stanford News. We’re standing under a waterfall, feasting on information that’s never existed before,” said Mitchell Stevens, a sociologist and associate professor at Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE). For Stevens, his “aha!”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

This involves navigating search engines, identifying key ideas, evaluating and assessing the quality of information and adapting it to the player’s own unique game world context. For more about using Minecraft with language learners, David Dodgson recommends the following resources: Articles. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

Curt began by describing the use of MOOCs for faculty and staff development, with examples such as a University of London effort. In fact, open MOOCs can work for any population, esp. I asked how open learning works for non-professionals, citing research showing many MOOC users are already professionals and/or academics.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

As we explore this topic, it might help to consider that the traditional form of AL (note: I use AL and the term itself throughout the balance of the article) is different than many of the distinctions we look at. their workflows, favored information sources, device use, cloud access, etc.). ” Interact. ” Reflect.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2013

There are the formal, classroom based collaborative spaces and there are the informal, non classroom spaces where we learn most of what we know in interaction with others. The boundaries are blurring between formal and informal learning. You can read more on collaborative learning space design approaches in this article.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

I saw the title of this article, “ Are Parent-Teacher Conferences Becoming Obsolete? I was expecting the article to talk about moving away from the “traditional parent conference” (sitting around for 10-20 minutes talking about a child’s experience in school) to something more student-led.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago that interviewed Anthony Levandoski, the Uber engineer sued by Google for stealing its self-driving car technology. A critic of the company, Linkletter posted links to unlisted YouTube videos — that is, publicly available information — on Twitter.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 22, 2019

His research into technology-enhanced learning has led to many software development projects within library settings and provides unique insights into new student’s expectations and needs and helps inform the work that he does as the Orientation Services and Environments Librarian for undergraduate students at the University of Illinois.

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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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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

If we limit the list of essential student affairs technology articles to those written by student affairs scholars or professionals, published in student affairs journals or books, or about student affairs then I’m hard pressed to name an article that I consider essential.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 11, 2013

The rise is also due to people''s desire to develop their learning informally. The first principle in the article above relates to access, and states: "A mobile learning environment is about access to content, peers, experts, portfolio artifacts, credible sources, and previous thinking on relevant topics. Unported License.

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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

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In the article, “What Straight-A Students Get Wrong,” by Adam Grant, he discusses the idea that academic success is not always an indicator of future success: The evidence is clear: Academic excellence is not a strong predictor of career excellence. That is not what I took from the article at all.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Article Written By: Hossein Rahnama. They’re comfortable gathering information and using it to look ahead to their potential careers with a combination of concern, excitement — even entitlement. Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity.

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Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

There have been some good articles, books, and chapters that are important in particular, narrow contexts but I don’t think that I’ve seen anything essential or seminal. Historical origins of the information age : I think it’s important to ground our understanding of technology by beginning…well, in the beginning.

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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. Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts.

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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 second is to improve strategies for how students take in that information and retain it.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” Re-reading that article now makes me cringe. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes.

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Bryan Alexander

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

The Washington Post offered a taste of it with an overview article, “ One vision of tomorrow’s college: Cheap, and you get an education, not a degree “, which I’ll summarize here. It’s also silent on the library’s role of preserving and rendering access to the corpus of information.

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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 Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2018

In an article for the English Journal , Narter recounts how the student found his feedback more encouraging when he expressed it orally. That logic might also explain why online-only courses, including much-vaunted MOOCs, struggle to retain students. Narter started by simply reading his comments aloud.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 20, 2015

There were posts about the Anatomy of PLEs , their functionality , their role as a counterpoint to the institutional Learning Management System, and also their relationship to MOOCs and Connectivism. We were all excited about the potential of PLEs, their subversive nature and their inherent informality.

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ProfHacker

AUGUST 26, 2016

Some examples of open scholarship based on this definition can be publishing an article in an open access journal, teaching a MOOC, and joining a Twitter hashtag to chat about an educational issue. However, we go beyond these definitions of open scholarship – beyond open access and public scholarship.

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 15, 2017

I read an article recently, and it talked about “unbiased experts” and it stopped me in my tracks. have gone out of my way to read articles that go against what I believe, and openly share them on Twitter. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! Is there such thing as an “unbiased expert?”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

More information or register here! Our goal is to have you walk away with practical information and inspiration for furthering game-based learning in class and beyond. Look for more information in the coming weeks. More information at [link]. For more information, click here. Gaming in Ed: September 15th - 19th.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 3, 2018

Scholars and practitioners have been hard at work in the years since the report was released to illuminate what connected learning looks like in practice with young people in both formal and informal learning contexts; indeed, the annotated bibliography in this issue offers an exhaustive inventory of research to date.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

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. MOOCs are available from a variety of sources including Coursera , edX and individual participating universities. Do your students know this?

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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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MindShift

MAY 22, 2018

In an article for the English Journal , Narter recounts how the student found his feedback more encouraging when he expressed it orally. That logic might also explain why online-only courses, including much-vaunted MOOCs, struggle to retain students. Narter started by simply reading his comments aloud.

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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”). “ Can a New Approach to Information Literacy Reduce Digital Polarization? Data, Surveillance, and Information Security. National) Education Politics. Her remarks.)

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

She cited the recent Google artificial intelligence success AlphaGo ; I recommended this Wired article. This works in a low-stakes settings, like a MOOC. QtL people are highly connected within the worlds of informal learning, badging, and project-based learning. Testing tools aren’t very good now. BOTH IN BOOK.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

As the Superintendent William Johnson wrote in an article in The New York Times a week after the experiment launched, So far as possible, fifteen minutes' time is given to each broadcast above the fourth grade. Like a MOOC, but in the school gym. In the late 1950s, about 70% of US households owned a television.

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EdTechTeacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

One day, Alec says that he tweeted out that he was thinking of starting a MOOC. Though he does not put out a lot of information about his family, he does occasionally tweet about his family and is surprised at the response. ” Alec references the NY Times article that The Web Means the End of Forgetting.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

I'm quite at home in this area of academia, and my thinking is shaped and informed by these disciplines, so I was delighted to be invited to speak. How many people read an article in a closed journal? No-one knows for certain, but we know for sure how many access an article from an online journal.

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