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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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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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. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

I was there on a reporting trip, as part of the research I’m doing as a Spencer Fellow. I’m also working on a magazine article that’ll come out this fall on education technology and venture capital. Yes, I went to ASU+GSV – my first time at the event in the event’s nine year history.

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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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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, we’d like to call out nine of our contributors in particular, who’ve written the most popular articles of 2016. Investors and Entrepreneurs—From the 'Innovate' Newsletter This year was a busy one for the edtech industry from the standpoint of our AT&T State of Edtech report, which delved into funding deals and product development.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. 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. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed.

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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. Technology in U.S. higher education.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

This particular push for a discipline apparently emerged at a small event at Georgetown, responding to a report from MIT on the future of online education. And yet, in a story in Inside Higher Ed in May none of that history or existing academic activity is mentioned.

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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 end, many classroom teachers reported that the new technology required more work.

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MindShift

MAY 22, 2018

This story about video grading was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. In an article for the English Journal , Narter recounts how the student found his feedback more encouraging when he expressed it orally. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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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. Friedman and the rest of the uncritical MOOC cheerleaders) or dystopian views. Technology in U.S. higher education.

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Technology MOOC Industry Social Media 49

Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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Educator Innovator

JULY 3, 2018

In a landmark 2013 report , this group detailed an educational approach, called connected learning, that aims to leverage this ecology to advance academic achievement, equity, and civic engagement.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via The Hechinger Report : “Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education – with one big exception.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). National) Education Politics.

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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

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. million by contrast with $1.2

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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 Acuitus strategy that has evolved over 20 years involves mixing a digital tutor with in-person instructors.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

This example surfaces new questions about student data and privacy, such as: are administrators mandatory reporters? While a school keeps something on each student, those pupils are empowered with the artifacts made along the way of learning: projects, papers, reports, other materials produced, a transcript.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

The stories that I write about the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” are the antithesis of most articles you’ll see about education technology that invoke “top” and “trends.” So here is the consensus from the past twelve years of the Horizon Report for higher education. The quotation is from 2012.

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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.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution. Networks matter.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

For successful outcomes, plan teacher PD sessions avoiding holidays, weekends, extended school days and reporting/ assessment cycles. In this age of digital transformation, educators may choose from the plethora of online MOOCs which are a convenient and no-travel option.

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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. With reports citing such whopping numbers to go online, it’s no wonder some senior academic officers are anxious to jump in.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2020

This article is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Ted Dintersmith : There was a massive gush of enthusiasm for MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses), with some conviction it would revolutionize higher education. To a large extent, though, the MOOC movement has proven to be a disappointment.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. Comparing Articles : Students determine whether a news story or a sponsored post is more reliable. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Each week for the past eight or so years, I have gathered a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this has fed the series of articles I have written each December, analyzing the stories we have been told about the future of education. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

.” And in Delaware , “Authorities have arrested two Smyrna high school students in connection with threats involving clowns and bombs ,” the AP reports. ” “ Clown College Calls National Rash of Rumored Clown Scares ‘Troubling’,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Raise $146.1

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Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Via Politico : “ DeVos : Schools should decide whether to report undocumented kids.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” More on the report from Pacific Standard. ” The race for the California State Superintendent is still undecided – at least as I type up this article, it is. ’ The FCC Could Help,” says Wired. .”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Politics.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 17, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Wants to Hold Colleges Accountable by Reporting Graduates’ Earnings. billion over next decade,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). National) Education Politics.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Far too many articles — and this is surely what its venture capitalist and philanthropist backers hope — have not reflected the landscape but have tried instead to shape it. ASU ends its MOOC experiment , Global Freshman Academy. Flawed Algorithms Are Grading Millions of Students’ Essays ,” Motherboard reported in August.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

. “Researchers say removal of an IRS tool for financial aid applicants may have slowed FAFSA submissions, while college aid groups warn that affected students could already be losing out on aid,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Via The New York Times : “ Rolling Stone Settles Lawsuit Over Debunked Campus Rape Article.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. “Publishers Wiley , Cengage , Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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