Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

These include “a huge change in assessments and how people demonstrate mastery” in ways other than through standardized testing, she notes. There’s also the ASU GSV Summit, which Quazzo runs and is now known in the industry as the place where deals get done. There’s even an MBA program. billion in 2017.

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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. But content is not top on your list.”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Also note, the point of this post isn’t to showcase how innovative higher education is but rather to point out innovations that are out there as a kind of survey while also hopefully helping pollinate the possibility of innovation in the upper end of the field and ‘industry’ of education. Competency-Based Learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

can’t just say, “Here’s a MOOC, or here’s an online degree, or a 6- to 12-week immersive bootcamp.”. We need better assessment tools and prior learning assessments to take any student and assess where they are: What capabilities, skill sets, and mindsets do they have? We have to do better.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Could the rise in MOOC-based and other certificates affect how traditional college degree paths are designed? Many #DLNchat-ters define them as MOOC providers including edX and Coursera and bootcamps such as General Assembly and Kenzie Academy. But first, who are these nontraditional providers?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

He writes: “Higher-education institutions have a major opportunity to play a role in the new corporate L&D landscape beyond simply course delivery, assessment and credentialing.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

In particular, continuing education programs are less regulated, more responsive to industry and consumer needs, have less restrictive budget policies and procurement systems, operate under lower political pressure, and are often infused with the “startup mentality” that is critical for responding to and pioneering disruptive innovations.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

Nicola Soares: It definitely depends on the industry. If you look at an industry like healthcare, there's obviously very regulated sort of needs on credentialing and certain types of skills that are in demand. We've been doing that for the last 40 years—with Prior Learning Assessment and with ACE credit recommendations.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

Nearly 60 percent of 589 preK-12 educators surveyed enrolled in professional courses online, according to a study by the Educational Technology Industry Network, a division of the Software & Information Industry Network. Training for student assessments: 27 percent. Quizzes/assessments: 68 percent. Audio: 72 percent.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Well-funded MOOC providers Coursera, Udacity and EdX have evolved their business models to focus squarely on corporate learning and serving professionals seeking credentials. New Options One major reason is the explosion of relatively high-quality, free or low-cost professional learning options in recent years.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

Course profiles feature statistics about typical industry salaries and list the companies that have hired completers. 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.

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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. I could incorporate Stanford University’s amazing library of historical critical thinking assessments at Beyond the Bubble.

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Study Libraries Wiki MOOC 191

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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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

I don't want to come off today as making broad sweeping statements about all of education everywhere when I'm very much talking about the education system in the US and the education technology industry in the US. " There is a growing digital proctoring industry that offers schools way to monitor students during online test-taking.

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Software ProctorU Company Data 141

TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

For instance, one recent survey reported that 75% of the responding K-12 educators in the United States assessed their student’s access to technology in the classroom as “good” or “great” Roughly four out of five teachers planned to utilize these types of resources more extensively during the 2016 academic year.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

I am interested in building towards a world where aggregated statistics across the industry of education can help direct conversations on local, state, and federal education budget priorities. RSVP for our next #DLNchat: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning? DLNChat — Joshua K. Farrar (@sent1nel) March 27, 2018.

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Education Data MOOC Industry 72

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.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

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? " There is a growing digital proctoring industry that offers schools way to monitor students during online test-taking. That robot grading is degrading. I believe that firmly.

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Robotics Software Company ProctorU 83

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

These statistics offer a somber reminder that the edtech industry does not produce quick, home run hits. He’s never been a fan of digital textbooks or MOOCs.) He also believes the market is also moving towards tools that bundle assessment and content, rather than being offered as separate products.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Across industries, research shows that the correlation between grades and job performance is modest in the first year after college and trivial within a handful of years. Academic grades rarely assess qualities like creativity, leadership and teamwork skills, or social, emotional and political intelligence.

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Education MOOC Laptops Tablets 70

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Most will experience dramatic swings in local and national economic trends, and they’ll witness entirely new industries and career paths emerge while others collapse. Curate the combination of competencies, assessments, and learning resources based on the needs of your target learners. No one can assume a stable career.

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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. Teachers are industry experts, half of whom have some sort of previous education experience. Important to get feedback from students through surveys to assess quality of teaching and content.

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Udemy Education MOOC Survey 49

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 216

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Massive Open Online Courses (Sometimes referred to as MOOCs) – MOOCs are readily available courses that are presented online. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn. MOOCs are available from a variety of sources including Coursera , edX and individual participating universities. More on education reform.

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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.” “Many are never the same.”

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? When students started migrating towards used textbooks, rentals, MOOCs and OER due to the high prices of printed textbooks, it affected the revenues of traditional book publishers.

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OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) I’m not sure it was, but then again, understanding the LMS industry is really their thing and not mine (something for which I am eternally grateful). The company has raised some $77.5

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

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. It is more than just working with a computer on self-assessed activities.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

There is some thought that a certain percentage of instruction must be digital to qualify as “blended learning,” but there is no clear industry standard. These taxonomies can be used to plan units, lessons, assessments, and other teaching and learning processes. ” (3). Challenge-Based Learning. Mastery Learning.

Technology 40

Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

” – that’s Sebastian Thrun, best known perhaps for his work at Google on the self-driving car and as a co-founder of the MOOC (massive open online course) startup Udacity. The quotation is from 2012. So it is predicted. So it is written. But that’s the story that people tell nevertheless.

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Trends Report iPhone Software 40

ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

We’ve come a long way since Victorian England and are currently in the midst of the fourth digital industrial revolution. Fortunately, there is a vast amount of content already available, such as YouTube videos, MOOCs, multiple choice questions and web-based resources. We are teaching digital citizens in 2018.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2019

A LinkedIn survey of 1,200 workers in human resources and learning development teams across more than 2,100 workplaces worldwide found that the top priorities for talent developers include identifying, assessing and closing skills gaps within their companies. That’s what happened to Coursera, NovoEd, Udacity and several others.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

To be successful, the underlying analysis must be grounded in an appreciation for the structural aspects of competitive advantage, on the one hand, and an understanding of the structure of the targeted educational industry sector, on the other. Failing to take either into account is a recipe for financial disaster.

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Education Coursera Policies MOOC 60

Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

And then lastly a lot of these Learning Gadgets allow you to bring in third-party content — so almost anything that exists on the web you can bring right into a Versal course, organize it, organize it in lessons, put assessments in between, and so on. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs.

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E-rate Company Course MOOC 28

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Larry Hogan (R) declared via executive order that beginning in September 2017, the Maryland school year won’t start until after Labor Day – a decision that prompted sharp criticism from school leaders, who are accusing Hogan of favoring the tourism industry over education.” The states in question: Texas and Nevada.

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Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

From the US Department of Education’s blog : “Building the Next Generation of Assessments in Education.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Dive makes claims about “ MOOCs as tools for equity in under-resourced high schools.” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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