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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Educator Innovator

MAY 12, 2014

This online opportunity is open to anyone interested in learning how to use Twitter and other media sharing applications to promote social and civic discourse with students and will take place this summer from July 7 – August 17. Week 4: July 28 — How do you engage millennials in civic discourse and promote community engagement?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A new book, “ Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education ,” looks at how to create systems that apply the science of learning into actual teaching. The hype around MOOCs and other disruptive tech at colleges has faded. This is an amazing change, and the MOOC bubble helped accelerate it.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 11, 2017

” His view is that at this early stage of online education’s development, with internet connectivity no longer an issue, the next step is to figure out how to properly leverage technologies to enhance personalized learning Click to tweet. One of these advantages is the company’s investment in big data research and expertise.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Teachers need support to know how to best work with students and their learning differences, including the varied learning needs of Opportunity Youth. The Fellows also participate in a MOOC focused on understanding and responding to learning differences in their classroom. Teaching Differently to Engage all Learners. Learn More.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Charles Severance was one of the first professors at the University of Michigan to give the massive open online courses (MOOC) platform Coursera a try. But while Severance—who’s better known by some as Dr. Chuck—says his first MOOC was a success, there was one thing about his in-person classes he missed: seeing his students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

Some of it has already been invested in startups including Class Technologies, which is building an instructional video platform on Zoom; Guild Education, which works with companies to provide educational opportunities to their employees; and Photomath, an app that shows students how to solve math problems, step by step, just by taking a picture.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

I realized that I was recording hours of deliberate practice (my early morning runs), formative assessments (the occasional speed workout on the track) and even a few summative assessments (races) on the app. As a thought experiment, I tried to recast my Strava experience in pedagogical terms. I could hardly blame them.

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Online Learning Course MOOC Udemy 110

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

How many new jobs that don’t exist today will a person have during a 150-year lifespan? Proponents of the liberal arts love to explain how an excellent general education will teach students to learn how to learn for a lifetime. can’t just say, “Here’s a MOOC, or here’s an online degree, or a 6- to 12-week immersive bootcamp.”.

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MOOC Udemy Learning Assessment 132

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

After choosing Minecraft as an in-class resource, I found that not everyone knew how to play—including me! 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. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube.

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Wiki MOOC Handbook Case Study 142

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

John Warner has some ideas about why that is, and how to fix it. And he has some ideas about how to make things better. 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. Part of the problem, he says, is technology.

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Software Assessment MOOC Social Media 167

MIND Research Institute

MAY 17, 2017

Below, we have collected some Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) as well as open courseware, so you can choose your own learning adventure this summer. This course will provide educators with strategies for developing, implementing, and assessing student group work. ”. Get Organized: How to be a Together Teacher. Summer 2017.

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Course Blended Learning MOOC Personal Learning Network 74

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

Prior Learning Assessment for Educators and Industry. Performance Assessment in the Virtual Classroom. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 6: Introduction to Student Assessment. IOC Athlete MOOC via Independent. College Readiness Math MOOC. iTDI Summer School MOOC For English Teachers. Cooper Union via edX.

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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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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. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. Number one skill for being successful in learning: the ability to self-assess.

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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.” MRU courses also include discussion forums and practice assessments.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. Training for student assessments: 27 percent.

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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Many students are smart enough that they know how to meet the objectives of a rubric and still not grow much in their learning. This type of assessment is not about understanding what a students knows and reporting on it, but it is a tool used for learning. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers. It covers how to use kinematics to describe translational motion; ways to apply the concepts of motion, force, mechanical energy and momentum; and new strategies for solving motion problems. . “This isn’t a typical MOOC.

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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’d learn how to make our own maps using Google’s mapping tools , then check out the maps that others have made. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2016

We all need to learn how to learn. How well do our current educational structures support these circumstances? Khan, MOOCs, boot camps, career academies, even what is seen as enrollment “swirl” in community college courses reflect the demand for just-in-time, just-enough learning, often focused on achieving specific competencies. (For

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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

JANUARY 26, 2018

MOOCs are just digital versions of the much maligned large group lecture, virtual flashcards are simply another tool for useless rote memorization, and online textbooks are just one more problematically unidirectional method of transmitting information without cultivating learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Kent Darr suggested that “Parsing large data sets could help the instructor and instructional designer make quicker, more informed decisions about course content, tasks, and assessments,” work that “may otherwise prove to be time-consuming for the instructor/ researcher.” Students need someone to help them make meaning of the data.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I'm not an advocate for ed-tech; I'm not here to sell you on a new flashcard app or show you how to use the learning management system more effectively. 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? I'm an ed-tech critic.

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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. Every student is guilty until the algorithm proves their innocence.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Learn how to learn. Here’s how to make this easy, from an Ask a Tech Teacher contributor: In the past, a university degree provided a majority of graduates with the skills they needed to succeed in their chosen careers. Yet many students do not have a solid understanding of how to effectively go about the process of upskilling.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

How to Manage Multiple Google Accounts. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC’s are usually free online courses offered by universities with no limit on enrollment. Learn all you need to know about the trainer assessment and application! 20 NEW Ways to Use Google Classroom. After School Programs. Tips and Tricks.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects. Foundations of Teaching for Learning 6: Introduction to Student Assessment. How to Succeed in College. Common Core in Action: Math Classroom Challenges- Using Formative Assessment to Guide Instruction. by Class Central. via Canvas.net.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

By that, I mean that I am required to provide and follow a syllabus that lines up a course of study and learning objectives for my students and details how and when they will be assessed. 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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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

But the platform is helping community colleges think through how to use prior-learning assessments to award credit if users do want it, even when the course isn’t technically credit-bearing. Practically speaking, we’re working with the non-credit side mostly because they can respond most rapidly to industry,” Alssid says.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 4, 2013

How do we assess quality with all of the online education providers that are out there? Small start ups and giant MOOCS. Think a lot about how to get personalized support to individuals. Important to get feedback from students through surveys to assess quality of teaching and content. K-12 will follow by 2019.

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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 22, 2016

Simply using and knowing how to use a google form is not “innovative”, but using a google form to have kids aggregate resources on a particular topic and then critically assessing the information they have provided, and sharing it with others, could be innovative practice. March 29, 2016 Checklist or Art Form?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Spend April 10th online with search specialists, instructors, and librarians discussing the importance of search and learning how to incorporate search skills into your curriculum at our first Search Matters Summit. The impact of MOOCs depends on their ability to assess learning. We''ve got a lot in store for this year!

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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. Each week we interview teachers, principals, superintendents, authors and presenters to learn about how to become more effective educators! We are dedicated to being the lead learners in all that we do.

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