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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Competency-Based Learning. The definition of asynchronous learning helps us understand the need for asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

How could a game featuring so little language drive this much language learning? In my experience creating projects in Minecraft and running after-school clubs, expert players are always keen to help their novice peers learn the essential skills. Playing in survival mode, a new player is quickly required to learn the basics.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Ahearn, an online learning manager for +Acumen, shares eight lessons learned about the field with a starter kit of what every hopeful instructional designer should know. These days corporate learning and development programs are looking for “bite-sized training” and curating learning materials that already exist.

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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.” EdX, the nonprofit founded by Harvard University and MIT to offer MOOCs, now lists 40 “MicroMasters” programs from 24 colleges and universities around the world.

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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. Floyd Maxwell The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions. September 6th + 7th!

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. Warner: Students may have gotten good grades on the kinds of writing they've been asked to do, either in school or on a standardized assessment. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast.

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The Principal of Change

JULY 13, 2017

From the article, “ 5 Unusual Facts About Google’s Odd (and Wildly Successful) Management Practices “(read the whole thing ): 5. Google found that they don’t predict anything. You learn and grow; you think about things differently.” You learn and grow; you think about things differently.”

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 27, 2015

Just to recap: Practices and Models Lifelong Learning -For educators, learning should never stop. Views Failure As Part Of The Learning Process -Failure is part of our future. We need to embrace it so we can learn from it. One of my favorite places to personalize my own learning is Edweb.net.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

At the time, I’d been hearing about what Khan was doing and suddenly I realized there’s a fundamental divide between how we’ve traditionally taught medical school and how the next generation is wired to learn.” Our goal was to create digital content that appeals to various learning styles—text-based, auditory, and visual,” Sharma explains.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

What did bother me, however, was how many of these technologies were only adding a digital component to the same learning practices teachers used when I was a student there just a few years ago. The current wave of education technology has been fraught with pedagogically unsound replications of the worst aspects of teaching and learning.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. We could learn about maps and the geospatial revolution from a professor at Penn State University. As John Dewey noted, we learn what we do. And so on… .

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 30, 2017

It is definitely convenient, but does this lead to better learning in the classroom? My answer is that it could actually lead to worse learning, faster. The process of innovation in teaching and learning is something that all educators should aspire to. Look at EdCamp. It is the same for personal as it is for professional.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

Notes from the Discussion We no longer have to go to school if we want to learn. 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. Click here to see all of them.)

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 13, 2018

The reason I bring this up is that I often have teachers pull me aside and say they want to try to create a much more compelling learning environment for their students where they are finding and solving real-world problems, but they feel stifled by their administrators.

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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. ” Education in the Courts.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

This year’s cohort, whose products range from game-based learning to AI-generated flashcards, has a lot to be excited about. raised more than $9 million in a recent Series A round , and handheld wireless sensor company PocketLab is now teaming up with Google to bring the pocket-sized lab equipment to the Google Science Journal.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 19, 2016

Most students feel left out of the engaged learning classroom, as well as tend to withdraw from or become bored with overall mechanical feel of the online learning process. Online learning does not need to be mechanical in nature. Engagement needs to take place in the online learning environment.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update February 4th Education is soul crafting. Cornel West Welcome to the Learning Revolution. The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn. The Learning Revolution Project highlights virtual and physical events from Web 2.0

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Asynchronous access to this content, especially when this access is not through a dated university learning management system, but something more authentic to the student, maybe even accessed on their own mobile devices. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Learning Models, Theories, and Technology: A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers. Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. Activity-Based Learning. Blended Learning.

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 22, 2016

I talked about this recently in my post titled, “ Spoon-Fed Learning ”, and we far too often make others dependent upon us to learn. If I show you that what I am doing is truly valuable, many people will feel compelled to learn it on their own. Yet, similar to someone who writes novels, they must first learn to read and write.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) Arguably, one of the best candidates is the learning management system.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

As they say on their website : Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT for short) is a teaching and learning strategy based on the interaction between web-based study assignments and an active learner classroom. I review the assessment (the feedback) before class and just-in-time to modify whatever I had planned for the inside-of-class system.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update March 18th All of life is a constant education. Eleanor Roosevelt The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. Interested in becoming a Learning Revolution Partner? Follow #RSCON5 for updates.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

We’ve made the full recording available as usual, via this direct link or the following embed: Inspired by her recent book, The Test , I began the conversation by asking how testing may change over the next few years, according to what the author learned from researching its history. poses a question for Anya K. BRYAN AND ANYA DISCUSS.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Analysis of Georgia Tech ’s MOOC-inspired online master’s in computer science suggests that institutions can successfully deliver high-quality, low-cost degrees to students at scale.” The third: lifelong learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Former Xythos and DataHero CEO Ed Miller knows a thing or two about online collaboration and the business behind education technology, which is why we wanted to get a few words as he embarks on his new role as CEO of NovoEd , an online social learning platform that specializes in free and exclusive courseware. What don’t you miss?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

During the conference opening sessions we brainstormed as set of grassroots global education projects that we could bring to our personal learning networks to try to get started. student ED4ALL - U-Learning: Hacía un nuevo paradigma educativo - Gustavo Beltrami 9:00am Designation for the Global Ready Teacher! Instructor and Ph.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Our vision must evolve to incorporate a new approach to literacy instruction, one in which technology becomes an accelerator to personalize and create meaningful learning contexts. isn’t simply limited to YouTube either (though it does work seamlessly there); Khan, Vimeo, and several MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platforms work as well.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and currently serves as the editor of the influential online open access journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ( IRRODL ). When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning?

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Over the past few years the education industry has been experiencing a shift away traditional learning environments. One of these practices is known as blended learning and the term that has been garnering some attention within the education industry as of late. But, what is blended learning? What is blended learning?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The tech-wielding entrepreneurial dad and the avante garde, life-hacking mom team-up (you have to) to lead the learning of their own three children using a combination of their personalized attention, and the growth of technology. So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Adaptive learning apps. Learning simulations.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

Plus, the best kind of learning is when we meet the unexpected. Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or Learning to Go. 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.

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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. I’ve learned Python over the last three years along with some of its related systems like NumPy and SciPy , and I’ve successfully used Python as a tool in my research.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update February 25th Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. Mark Twain Welcome to the Learning Revolution. The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn. Look for Events from These New Partners at Learning Revolution.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

In fact, if you Google “rainbow starburst bracelet” and the official video from the company has been viewed a fraction of the times. No matter what you may choose to learn, you can do so via YouTube and other media. This perspective is shaping formal learning as well. Be the Node!

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