Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2022

The system of recording information secures digital data in a way that makes it traceable and difficult to alter. Setting personal and academic information in stone may actually counter the mission of education to help people evolve over time. What about taking on the mentorship of a younger student in an informal capacity?

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Data MOOC Outcomes System 163

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Now offering 28 pathways in Health & Human Services, Information Technology, Business, Agriculture, and Manufacturing and the Trades. The hype around MOOCs and other disruptive tech at colleges has faded. This is an amazing change, and the MOOC bubble helped accelerate it. But hasn’t the energy faded from this topic a bit?

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MOOC Education Industry Course 170

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. Many prestigious universities such as Harvard offers MOOC at minimal or no cost. MOOC also offers group collaboration and feedback through online evaluation. However, some courses are chargeable. Open Education Resources (OER).

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MOOC Gamification Smartphone OER 127

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. By Andrew Smith Lewis.

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Assessment MOOC EdTech Data 40

Educator Innovator

MAY 12, 2014

In #TeachDoNow, participants will engage in weekly discussions designed to promote deep discussions among formal and informal educators. To accomplish all of this, participants and facilitators will be working together as both learners and change agents in an open environment known as a Massive Open Online Collaboration (MOOC).

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MOOC Digital Citizenship Social Media Common Core 30

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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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 194

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

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. Open Curriculum. And anymore, they end being the punchline of edtech jokes, somehow. Free Tuition.

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Examples MOOC Education Competency Based Learning 141

Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

The Fellows learn how to: Assess student learning differences in the classroom and implement responsive instructional strategies premised on UDL; Use technological tools and flexible instructional media to provide a rich and adaptive learning environment; and. Learn More.

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UDL MOOC Learning Strategy 152

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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MOOC Coursera Course Assessment 66

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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MOOC Udemy Learning Assessment 135

TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

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. Diagnostic assessment (of competencies, knowledge, standards-based content, etc.) their workflows, favored information sources, device use, cloud access, etc.).

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Learning Groups Course MOOC 143

IT Bill

JUNE 2, 2016

However, with emerging deliver models such as Competency-based Educational (CBE) and Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) gaining traction in higher education, it may make sense to consider student autonomy in the design of online learning. Pina (2015) Using Transactional Distance Theory to inform online instructional design.

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Digital Badges E-rate MOOC LMS 28

Linways Technologies

MARCH 31, 2020

Though there is information available around us, an institution, with its unique workflow and delivery makes the difference. This sets institutional education apart from the MOOCs, or online course delivery tools. What are the different Assessment Tools available in Linways? The answer is very simple.

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Course System MOOC Assessment 111

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

Learning has fundamentally changed with the evolution of the Internet and other technologies that allow for ubiquitous access to information and knowledge. This is taken into account when they are assessed for their work. The work was assessed according to the IOCS Rubric.

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Personalized Learning Learning Secondary Course 150

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

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. Language Learning and Minecraft. Ideas for Using Minecraft in the Classroom. IrvSpanish.

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Wiki MOOC Handbook Case Study 145

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When there’s a need for information or new skills, employees today are increasingly turning to instantly accessible sources such as search engines and online course libraries available on their mobile devices. Information today is pushed so quickly at people that the landscape has fundamentally changed.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

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. It comes from this sort of highly prescriptive practice that's privileged because they're going to be assessed on a very narrow range of abilities. How do you explain this disconnect?

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Software Assessment MOOC Social Media 167

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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EdTech MOOC Libraries Chromebook 111

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

MRU courses also include discussion forums and practice assessments. For independent learners, platforms like MEDSKL and MRU present free course opportunities similar to those of MOOCs, but with a few distinctions. MRU’s other users include individuals who aren’t attached to a college but are curious about applied economics.

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Khan Academy MOOC Flipped Classroom Trends 65

The PL2C Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

Creating this habit of mind around building strong connections, challenging your colleagues and assessing your progress regularly will define the digital culture you want to see in your school/district. More About the Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed. CEUs are offered along with a Certificate of Completion.

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Technology MOOC Personal Learning Network Digital Learning 63

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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Education Data MOOC Industry 72

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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Course Study Survey Digital Badges 53

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. Unported License.

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Coursera MOOC Flipped Classroom Assessment 45

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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MOOC Coursera Course Comparison 140

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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MOOC Education Robotics Company 57

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 7, 2016

Certainly we can set out deliberately to learn something new, either on a formal or informal basis. If we take a formal education course learning will be different to our informal autodidactic efforts. Concepts such as curriculum, classes, assessment, lessons and 'teaching' are artificial - contrivances that do not occur naturally.

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MOOC Mobility Study Course 28

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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MOOC Khan Academy BYOD Libraries 75

Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

Parent Information Classes. 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. We can add videos, information, permission slips, resources, etc. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC).

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Google Classroom Groups MOOC 78

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. They could make a local history wiki or, even better, make contributions to our global information commons by directly creating and editing Wikipedia pages.

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Study Libraries Wiki MOOC 191

The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

In no way am I criticizing the district because I know that education articles often are missing pieces of information, but if it is 100% true that an online portal is used in lieu of conferences, I am concerned that we are creating a culture that is more about numbers and letters, than it is about people.

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Conference MOOC Elementary Assessment 71

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 25, 2012

The conference general information page is HERE and call for presentation proposals and instructions for Learning 2.0 Huge thank to the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at San José State University, the founding conference sponsor! The conference will also include an all-day virtual unconference (SocialEdCon online!)

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Conference ePortfolio Libraries MOOC 77

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

The classroom is no longer the unique centre of learning, based on information delivery through a lecture." The student is then left to think and reflect on the knowledge they have ''received'' and eventually, is assessed on how well they can remember, apply and evaluate this knowledge. Unported License.

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Flipped Classroom MOOC Mobility Trends 61

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.

Technology 68

Technology LMS Classroom Trends 68

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

Applicants use the company website to request a certain amount and provide information, then receive a quote from Blair. Everyone is trying to make education online, but we’ve seen the rise and fall of MOOCs,” says Payne, 32. The school doesn’t assess students with letter grades and has grown to 80 schools throughout Arizona.

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Education Company MOOC Course 114

Learning with 'e's

MAY 7, 2013

More than three percent of all tweets are found to have native location information available, while a naive geocoder based on a simple major cities gazetteer and relying on the user–provided Location and Profile fields is able to geolocate more than a third of all tweets with high accuracy when measured against the GPS–based baseline.

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Twitter Social Media Facebook MOOC 67

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

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. Which is dumb. And anymore, they end being the punchline of edtech jokes, somehow.

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Examples MOOC E-rate Dropout 40

The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Academic grades rarely assess qualities like creativity, leadership and teamwork skills, or social, emotional and political intelligence. Yes, straight-A students master cramming information and regurgitating it on exams. (Of course, it must be said that if you got D’s, you probably didn’t end up at Google.).

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Education MOOC Laptops Tablets 70