Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

His work around the study of social and cognitive presence in distance learning contexts has been cited many times, and his research has led to a number of high profile keynote speech invitations around the globe. I’m especially interested in social media that can be used to go beyond the often institutional centric LMS systems.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Using everyday digital content, the COR paper and online assessments directly connect to the questions posed in SHEG’s study and engage learners in credibility decision-making around three COR Competencies: Who’s behind the information? These assessments might be used to engage learners in discussion before an inquiry.

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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.” Cal State defends its librarian.”

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Testing, Testing… “Big changes ahead for how California assesses school performance,” KPCC reports. Via Education Week’s Market Brief : “ State Testing Disruptions Likely Produced Dips and Gains in Student Scores, Study Says.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

Yet, according to this study, nearly half of the donors have chosen to supply educational technology, far more than are building schools, providing basic books and materials or employing teachers. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “Peter Thiel May Finally Get His Flying Cars, Thanks to a New Udacity Nanodegree in 2018.” ” Via Times Higher Education : “ Online courses ‘more time-consuming’ to prepare for , study says.”

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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. Wheneducational resources like study materials are easily accessible via a smartphone or tablet, students can benefit tremendously.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Class Central : “ MOOCs May Still Be Reshaping Higher Education, Just Not In the Way That Was Initially Predicted.” There’s more MOOC news in the contests and competition section below. ” “Big Online Courses Have a Problem.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I first read an article by Seymour Papert in a Women’s Studies class in the mid 1990s – “ Epistemological Pluralism ,” which he co-wrote with Sherry Turkle. “Hardly Anyone Wants to Take a Liberal Arts MOOC,” Edsurge informed its readers in February. ” ). Only “1.86

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “As Bootcamps Look for Novel Ways for Students to Pay For Their Studies, Many Try ‘ Deferred Tuition ’ ” Do note how student financial aid startups are still raising venture capital (and how now, I guess, ed-tech publications cover these stories when before they insisted these weren’t ed-tech). .”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

Justin Reich on “ assessment ” versus “ evaluation.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “ MOOC enrollment drops at HarvardX and MITx after free certifications disappear ,” says Techcrunch. .” ” The LMS as gateway to a job application.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

ESSA gives more autonomy and flexibility to states than they had under NCLB through competency-based assessments, which could drive the development of personalized learning technologies. Instructure, for example, undertook its fifth annual security audit this year to identify possible vulnerabilities in its LMS Canvas.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 million as compensation for problems that derailed a spate of its assessments last year,” Education Week reports. Via Education Next : “The Politics of the Common Core Assessments.”

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MAY 13, 2016

” The Whiteboard Advisors’ latest “Education Insider” report ( PDF ) is on assessment trends, higher education, and the presidential campaigns. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Because up ’til now, MOOCs were the most brilliant data mining app ever.). Or something.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. In 2013, Intel acquired Kno for $15 million — for “ pennies on the dollar ,” said one analyst — and rebranded the software as the Intel Education Study App. They’re distracting others. And on and on and on.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Online education pioneer Tony Bates asks “ What is online learning ?” ” Google announces more updates to its pseudo-LMS, Google Classroom.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Testing, Testing… Via Inside Higher Ed : “Large-Scale Assessment Without Standardized Tests.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Iowa City Press-Citizen : “ Iowa families foregoing classroom for virtual school.” Discovering the Most Tenacious Learners.”

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JUNE 10, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Here’s The Chronicle headline from then : “Professor Leaves a MOOC in Mid-Course in Dispute Over Teaching.”) Good thing I never did anything in those MOOCs, otherwise I'd be losing my work. Remember Richard McKenzie?

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AUGUST 5, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs, CAI, and now this. ” Via Education Week : “Full-time virtual charter school students in Ohio perform worse academically than their peers enrolled in traditional district schools, according to a study released this week. Until College.”

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Via The New York Times : “In Her Words: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Assesses a Year on the Job.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Once upon a time, the LMS maker was a non-profit. Department of Education – Office of Government Ethics – DeVos.”

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium , a major designer of common-core tests for states, is looking for a new fiscal agent after the University of California, Los Angeles, said it will no longer do that work.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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JUNE 24, 2016

“ How Not to Study Donald Trump ” – “To make sense of Trumpism, and to put Trump in his historical context, The Chronicle of Higher Education asked a mostly white group of scholars to suggest readings for a syllabus for a mock course in Trump Studies. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

” “Word about the Vector Assessment of Readiness for College, or Vector A.R.C., Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “The Future of MOOCs Might Not Be Free ,” suggests Education Week’s Market Brief with an observation that many of us made back in 2012.

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