Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

To do so, they need to have a proper assessment strategy in place. In the absence of a clear mapping between program outcomes and assessment tools, student achievement of program outcomes is inaccurate and unreliable. Conscious efforts need to be made to bring application skills or higher cognitive skills to the assessment.

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Assessment Strategy Outcomes Education 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Rarely, it seems, is anybody ever specifically tasked with teaching students a step-by-step course in how to learn. Some of these courses are offered through the university system, but many others are made available outside of traditional academia. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn.

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Khan Academy MOOC Course Software 251

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. He quickly began supplementing his education with online courses from Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. verified certificates from Coursera and completed 11 social entrepreneurship courses from +Acumen. complete multiple MOOCs.

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MOOC Course Coursera Online Learning 103

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 9, 2013

After seemingly stalling for a short time, MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Courses ) seem to be graining ground again. First there were the cMOOCs, free and open online courses that focused more on learning than they did on accreditation. Learning was fun and informal, and learning was often self or peer assessed.

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MOOC Coursera Khan Academy Assessment 75

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 3, 2016

A recent move by a leading United Kingdom learning platform to issue academic credits toward a degree for students who complete open online courses could signal a forthcoming trend in the U.S. Typically MOOCs are known for providing free open content to anyone, often from well-respected universities. It’s a freemium model,” he said.

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MOOC Coursera Course Company 40

Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

Read a step by step approach from an instructor with lots of examples here. I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Start with this free Google Syllabus Template , then include links to resources, tools, and assessments related to the assignment. Gamify your syllabus!

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Digital Badges MOOC Exercises Digital Learning 326

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 127

Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

We conceived of this crowdsourced design project as part of a massive open online course (MOOC) on Canvas Network and sought out an all volunteer team of designers, facilitators, and subject matter experts to help us. The four key factors: Use a real-world instructional design challenge. Create a clear design guide. The Impact.

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Resources MOOC How To OER 197

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Furthermore, universities and school are also inclined towards diversifying their facilities through online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. It offers a large number of students access to study high-quality courses online through video streaming.

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

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 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 194

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. As the conversation continued, Joosten discussed the importance of design in online course development, a primary finding in the scan.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2022

The time to assess the benefits and drawbacks of blockchain technology is right now, before adoption in schools and universities is widespread. Currently, students graduating from college receive a diploma or transcript outlining their courses and credits. Education is more than mere courses completed.

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Data MOOC Outcomes System 160

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. They are a perfect example of what you get when you simply transfer analog practice to digital form and don’t make use of the advantages of the new medium. Sounds familiar—like a prior learning assessment.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 91

TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

Asynchronous learning generally uses technology that enables students to access course materials on their own. program would be a decent example of this. Because of the unique demands of asynchronous learning, curriculum, assessment, and instruction all have to be designed to make this not just possible, but likely.

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Learning Groups Course MOOC 143

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

If 2012 was “ The Year of the MOOC ”—massive open online courses, usually offered for free—2017 could be “The Year of the Microcredential.” But the programs also serve as an example of how colleges, increasingly thinking like businesses, are eager to find new ways to bring in revenue.

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Coursera MOOC Course Company 167

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 15, 2015

Quantified Learners: Moving Beyond Assessment. As assessment becomes more data-driven, however, it’s important that we remember what the real goal of this data should be. It’s not simply about better assessment; it’s about empowering better learning. By Andrew Smith Lewis.

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Assessment MOOC EdTech Data 40

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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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). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Um, they do.)

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

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. For example, simply using a keyboard to type up a document to enhance its presentation may not always be the most effective use of technology. Make content engaging for pupils.

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Blended Learning Learning Khan Academy MOOC 150

Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example. That is, we are less likely to use ed-tech to rethink assignments or assessments than we are to use ed-tech more closely scrutinize student behavior. Anti-cheating software isn't just about plagiarism, of course.

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Software ProctorU Company Data 141

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. Vive la MOOC Révolution. In October of this year, Clarissa Shen, Udacity’s Chief Operating Officer, called MOOCs “ a failed product.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

A report titled “Making Digital Learning Work” by Arizona State University found that online courses saved institutions up to 50 percent on average credit hour costs, but the study only looked at large-scale efforts. One of the larger questions during the chat was about scaling for cost efficiency. Others agreed that scaling certainly helps.

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OER Tools MOOC Course 68

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

Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

” Here DeMillo carries on his account of the MOOC story which he launched in chapter 1. This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. It’s not entirely a rosy account. Kindle location 1093).

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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. Here are some examples. Also occuring this year was an outside assessment of the project , conducted by Ithaka S&R. ” ( More here ).

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Trends MOOC Course Outcomes 74

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 3, 2020

I am sorry that we're all kicking off fall term online again — well, online is better than dead, of course. Most, I'd wager, are facing severe funding shortages — the loss of tuition, dorm-room, and sportsball dollars, for example — as well as new expenses like PPE and COVID testing. Here's a bit of what I said.

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Robotics Software Company ProctorU 83

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers. One example is Great Hill Partners, which invested in Examity in April.

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EdTech Coursera Knewton Analysis 146

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

As more adults than ever before enroll in postsecondary education programs and a variety of players—from bootcamps to online and mobile course providers—offer options tailored to match adults’ work and family circumstance, traditional colleges and universities have struggled to keep pace.

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Competency Based Learning Education Trends MOOC 115

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The American Historical Association offers over one thousand Civil War newspaper editorials , for example. We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. Let’s take maps, for example.

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Study Libraries Wiki MOOC 191

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2016

When Massive Open Online Courses (or MOOCs) were first introduced, people quickly realized these platforms could help students learn more effectively at their own pace on their own schedule. Consider, for example, Skype in the Classroom , which uses video conferencing to connect classrooms to industry experts.

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Mobile Learning Mobility Smartphone LMS 100

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I’ve taken a MOOC on algorithms and read, in whole or in part, books and articles that contain significant discussions of computer science-y things like time complexity and NP-completeness. By-hand computation in this class is important, in fact the "Foundational Skills" are all assessed through by-hand computation.

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MOOC Software Study System 52

Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

Of course, Google Classroom would also make a great tool for the lit circles within our classes and on our campus. We hold informational parent meetings about all kinds of initiatives like the rollout of a 1:1 program, opening a new school, bonds, transition to middle or high school, AP courses, etc. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).

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Google Classroom Groups MOOC 78

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. More than 4 out of 10 college students wind up in remedial math or English courses, and those that do are even less likely than other students to finish college.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 215

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

These principles include understanding users and creating a minimum viable product, for example, and we apply them to each project. By coupling rapid development and deployment with assessment we foster a virtuous cycle of innovation that leads to further discovery. Welcome talented student contributors.

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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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EdTech Robotics MOOC System 60