Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. a mixed methodological approach so that we're gathering qualitative data that tells the story about the quantitative findings.

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 194

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

More than two decades ago, when I was hired at Stevens Institute of Technology, as dean of web-based distance learning—a quaint title for what is now known as online learning—few tools were available to help faculty migrate their on-campus courses online. Most authoring software also integrates assessment tools, testing learning outcomes.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 124

Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Learning is no more institutionalized, and people still take courses and grow their skillset beyond colleges or universities. Some of them are developing their own courses to train workers in the skills the company needs. Any solution that you choose to trust your whole institution’s data should be dependable.

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How To MOOC Mobility Course 119

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. Five years ago, the application of data and algorithms to the HR function—as well the use of pre-hire assessment—were in a fledgling stage.

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MOOC Coursera Trends Survey 195

Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

The colleges create course videos and assignments that are offered on the company’s platform for free—and students can pay for a certificate showing completion. EdSurge: I’ve heard folks at Coursera refer to your courses and microcredential programs as “products.” It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs.

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MOOC Coursera Course Company 60

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. As for MOOCs, in 2012, the elites in higher education discovered online learning, which many others felt they had already invented and improved over the previous 15 years. OER and open books. Digital badges.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 89

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

One of these advantages is the company’s investment in big data research and expertise. This investment has enabled 51Talk to better assess student proficiency, and then match each assessed student with the proper level of coursework.

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MOOC Education Industry Company 216

The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In my last post, “Common Assessments” vs “Common Understandings” , I was reminded of how powerful comments are on a blog, and why blogging is a hugely powerful tool for not only sharing your learning, but learning from others. 2 What I think we mean is that we are looking for “common understandings”, not “common assessments”.

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Data Assessment Differentiated Instruction MOOC 77

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

An “uber trend” of remote work for higher education information security is coming, at a time when more connections are being forged between higher ed and other state data. In short, the authors note, “security and data privacy have an extraordinary and increasing significance on the horizon of higher education institutions.”

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Secondary Trends Survey Data 109

Linways Technologies

MARCH 31, 2020

Technological storms have driven the world in such a way that extensive collection of study materials on diverse courses are easily available at our fingertips. It organizes the entire curriculum delivery, and build up a structure where multiple courses, batches, departments, and doctrines are managed. The answer is very simple.

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Course System MOOC Assessment 111

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 15, 2015

Quantified Learners: Moving Beyond Assessment. Schools are organizing databases around students that look at multiple performance indicators, and now, more than ever, learning is informed and registered through collections of data points and not just a grade. Data shouldn’t just look back; it needs to point forward.

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Assessment MOOC EdTech Data 40

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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MOOC Course Assessment LMS 32

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2018

MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines. So we talked with Dhawal Shah, founder and CEO of Class Central, who has been tracking MOOCs closely ever since he was a student in one of those first Stanford open courses, about how MOOCs have evolved.

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MOOC Social Media Company Trends 95

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

This is already evident in the latest national job-market data, which shows a 15 percent unemployment rate for high school graduates with no college and 13 percent for those with some college or an associate degree—compared to 7 percent for individuals with a bachelor’s or higher.

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Learning Digital Badges E-rate MOOC 177

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Video, of course, enables other innovations. 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. Use of data analytics. An example?

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Examples MOOC Education Competency Based Learning 140

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

An Index Of Online Courses For Teachers: Summer 2015. Prior Learning Assessment for Educators and Industry. GSE3x: Introduction to Data Wise: A Collaborative Process to Improve Learning & Teaching. Performance Assessment in the Virtual Classroom. by Class Central. EDUCATION & TEACHING (29). Cooper Union via edX.

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Coursera Course MOOC OER 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Coursera to Charge Fees for Previously Free Courses Once hailed as a portal for free learning materials, accessible to anyone with an internet connection, Coursera announced this year plans to charge if learners want to submit assignments to be graded for certain courses.

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Coursera MOOC Company Course 87

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Pearson MOOC Company Industry 145

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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Company Course Coursera Training 160

Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Me personally, I don't want the future of education to be more monitored, data-mined, analyzed, predicted, molded, controlled. Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example. I don't want education to look that way now, but it does.

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Software ProctorU Company Data 141

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies: Who’s behind the information? The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download.

Assessment 60

Assessment Analysis Social Media Libraries 60

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. Also in concurrence with Simon’s vision of more dynamic, data-guided teaching, colleges have begun hiring instructional designers. Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 215

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Many students cannot afford the heavy data usage required by geofencing apps, for starters. Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account. To data about students’ sexual identity?

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I am sorry that we're all kicking off fall term online again — well, online is better than dead, of course. This is already happening, of course, with or without the pandemic. Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work?

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Robotics Software Company ProctorU 83

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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Trends EdTech MOOC Smartphone 111

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And then there were MOOCs , of course, and all those predictions and all those promises about the end of college as we know it: “MOOCs make education borderless, gender-blind, race-blind, class-blind and bank account-blind” and similar fables. Vive la MOOC Révolution.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Students should also be involved in decision-making efforts around what data is used and how that data is used, said Megan Raymond. There is a lot of data to sort, and Fendley, our special guest reminded us there’s only more to come. As Patrice Torcivia tweeted, it’s “critical to combine this data with human interaction.

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Education Data MOOC Industry 71

Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Assessing the Travel Ban : What New Data on Overseas Recruitment Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us.” More on certifications in the MOOC section above.

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MOOC Education Robotics Company 57

EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. November''s son is taking courses through edX and will get an associate''s degree from Harvard. Click here to see all of them.)

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MOOC Khan Academy BYOD Libraries 75

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The Education Department received about 28,000 applications for Public Service Loan Forgiveness as of June 30 of this year but so far has approved just under 300 applications for loan discharge, according to new federal data released Wednesday.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

Education 58

Education MOOC Pearson Blackboard 58

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

With a team of developers, designers, behavioral scientists, data scientists and student fellows, DIG helps translate digital engagement tools from innovation to infrastructure. Worrying over questions about culture, data and technology could easily constrain our thinking from the start. Then consider constraints.

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Advocacy Software MOOC Learning Analytics 60

Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” MOOCs are dead , according to Udacity ’s VP. ” Never one to let a good MOOC story pass them by, Edsurge repeats the story. “MOOCs Are ”Dead.“ ” Sham courses. ” Sham courses. “ What’s Next?

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MOOC Education Kaplan Company 43

Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Bob Thorpe, is proposing a far-reaching law in Arizona, House Bill 2120, banning virtually every college event, activity or course which discusses social justice , skin privilege, or racial equality. The Economist on “ The Return of the MOOC.” More on the report via Edsurge. edX has partnered with the World Bank Group.

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

MOOCs, technology infusion projects, online masters or pathways to credit, research. Engage the expertise of faculty to assess if tech you are using is effective. It's difficult to assess overall efficacy when data is not transparent. Analyzing tech use should help us assess teaching effectiveness.

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Coursera MOOC Flipped Classroom Assessment 45

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

For those keeping score at home, here are Peter Thiel’s ed-tech investments (in addition to his “I’ll pay you to drop out of college” fellowship program, of course): Clever, Lore, Thinkful, Declara, and SoFi. ” (That giant: Pearson , of course.). Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

This is due to the rapid proliferation of mobile technology, the disintermediation of traditional teacher and student roles, new trends such as MOOCs and the upsurge of user generated content on social media sites - all of which take learning away from previously familiar territory.

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Classroom MOOC Trends Social Media 62

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

As a senior in high school he persuaded his parents to upgrade their internet speed so that he could stream online course videos from MIT. He managed to earn a perfect score in the edX Circuits and Electronics course and gain admittance to MIT. Battushig Myanganbayar grew up in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. Why was Battushig so captivating?

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EdTech Company Secondary Coursera 60