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.

Online Learning 119

Online Learning Course MOOC Udemy 119

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. Pluralsight—an online IT training provider—has scaled to become an edtech “unicorn,” with a valuation over $1 billion.

Coursera 155

Coursera lynda.com Training MOOC 155

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

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

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. And yet, with the advent of mobile technology, learning can now take place any where, and at any time. Unported License.

Flipped Classroom 61

Flipped Classroom MOOC Mobility Trends 61

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

There's always been a tension: The employer has always wanted to fund the thing that's most directly relevant to their business—the profit-oriented, the thing that's least expensive and is going to generate a return, versus the employee who needs a mobile credential so they can take it with them throughout their career to the next employer.

Coursera 96

Coursera Trends Training MOOC 96

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

As more adults than ever before enroll in postsecondary education programs and a variety of players—from bootcamps to online and mobile course providers—offer options tailored to match adults’ work and family circumstance, traditional colleges and universities have struggled to keep pace.

Competency Based Learning 118

Competency Based Learning Education Trends MOOC 118

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 9, 2015

Instructional Design for Mobile Learning. 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. via Canvas.net.

Coursera 40

Coursera Course MOOC OER 40

Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

This is due to the rapid proliferation of mobile technology, the disintermediation of traditional teacher and student roles, new trends such as MOOCs and the upsurge of user generated content on social media sites - all of which take learning away from previously familiar territory.

Classroom 62

Classroom MOOC Trends Social Media 62

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The tool, which recently surpassed more than one million flashcards, uses artificial intelligence to generate multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank and other quiz-based flashcards from user-uploaded PDFs, URLs, or even photos of handwritten notes or textbooks taken using the PrepFlash mobile app. Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, Comprend.io

EdTech 60

EdTech Meeting Education Company 60

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

Not only are MOOCs and other open, online learning opportunities challenging more established business models, they are also causing many of us to re-evaluate the way we teach, and to reconsider the very nature of knowledge, intellectual property, copyright, assessment and collaboration.

Flipped Classroom 28

Flipped Classroom MOOC Learning Tablets 28

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 7, 2016

Concepts such as curriculum, classes, assessment, lessons and 'teaching' are artificial - contrivances that do not occur naturally. Specifically, online programmes of study including MOOCs are still in great demand, and learning through mobile devices is at an all time high.

MOOC 28

MOOC Mobility Study Course 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 17, 2014

Mobile users will be able to connect to sessions by going to LearningRevolution.com on your mobile device. Former Teacher, Site Admin, & District Admin) Teaching Another Country''s Culture With Mobile Devices - Harry G. Keynote recordings will be uploaded to the Learning Revolution YouTube channel. Tuttle, Ed.

Conference 75

Conference Learning Mobility Social Media 75

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 25, 2012

Subject strands include physical and virtual learning spaces, evolving professional roles in today''s world, organizing and creating information, changing delivery methods, user-centered access, and mobile and geo-social information environments. A full strand list is available ?

Conference 77

Conference ePortfolio Libraries MOOC 77

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.

Company 167

Company Course Coursera Training 167

The Principal of Change

APRIL 30, 2017

Someone had to have a vision of what a “phone” could be, but when you look at the innovation of mobile technology, this has led to other innovations. Yet it is the thinking that created the iPhone in the first place that was the innovation.

Education 75

Education iPhone Edcamps MOOC 75

The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 13, 2018

If you’re thinking you don’t have the time, remember that your technology is mobile. Academic grades rarely assess qualities like creativity, leadership and teamwork skills, or social, emotional and political intelligence. You can do what I did; take your computer or tablet and work in classrooms.

Education 70

Education MOOC Laptops Tablets 70

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.

Examples 40

Examples MOOC E-rate Dropout 40

Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

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. 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?

Software 141

Software ProctorU Company Data 141

GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Mobile learning. It is therefore important that eLearning content is mobile supported. Mobile learning is a key trend, which means it's important that elearning be mobile supported.” “Mobile learning is a key trend, which means it's important that elearning be mobile supported.” GoConqr Click To Tweet.

Technology 75

Technology Trends Gamification Education 75

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

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. ScholarMe is still fundraising to hire on engineers to build a mobile app. They’ve got it all wrong.”

Education 119

Education Company MOOC Course 119

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. Important to get feedback from students through surveys to assess quality of teaching and content. Mobile devices will help integrate online learning into people''s busy lives. K-12 will follow by 2019.

Udemy 49

Udemy Education MOOC Survey 49

Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In previous series, we have covered subjects ranging from personal learning environments, open education, the future of distance learning, and mobile learning.

Twitter 28

Twitter MOOC Social Media Mobile Learning 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 10, 2012

Subject strands include changes in the classroom (social media, 1:1 computing, "flipped classrooms," digital literacy, maker spaces, gaming, open educational resources, digital textbooks), in student learning (individualized learning, student-directed learning, "hacking" education, personal success plans, ePortfolios, and building a digital presence), (..)

Conference 75

Conference Blackboard ePortfolio Learning 75

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 1, 2021

Immersive simulations and stealth assessment. MOOCs and open education in Southeast Asia. Nepali high school students in MOOCs. Fostering local-to-global courses through MOOCs. The Mobiles for Education Alliance & lessons learned. Reflecting on our past episodes (and some new directions). Student voices.

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MOOC Learning Mobility Course 314

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Nowadays, mobile technologies are shaping up to be just as ground-breaking. 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. How to Assess Digital Literacy. More on education reform.

Khan Academy 255

Khan Academy MOOC Course Software 255

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2014

Conference strands include Game-Based Learning: How to Use Games in Educational Settings, Games & Assessment, Connecting Educators With Game Developers: Make Your Voices Heard, Students as Content Creators & Game Designers, Research on Game-Based Learning, and Professional Development. Is your library mobile friendly?

Google 52

Google Game-Based Learning Libraries Conference 52

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.

OER 16

OER Education MOOC Adaptive Learning 16

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

These taxonomies can be used to plan units, lessons, assessments, and other teaching and learning processes. Mobile Learning. Learning can unfold in a variety of ways: people can use mobile devices to access educational resources, connect with others, or create content, both inside and outside classrooms. Mastery Learning.

Technology 40

Technology Learning BYOD Digital Citizenship 40

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

Restaurants have rapidly shifted to online and mobile ordering, and are speeding up the deployment of digital kiosks that replace human workers. In a 2018 survey of hiring leaders , we found that online pre-hire assessment was the single most likely “disruptor” of the reliance on degrees in hiring, followed by simulation-based hiring.

Learning 188

Learning Digital Badges E-rate MOOC 188

Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

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. Text @4TCHrs to 81010 from your mobile device to join Digital Tools for TCHrs , and receive notifications about a new digital tool every week during the school year.

Tools 48

Tools Edcamps Social Media Video 48

TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Same with a school or curriculum or assessment. The cost of starting a company has gone down because there are online tools you can use for free. I can see that happening with school. So much of that stuff is just up for grabs.” Adaptive learning apps. Smarter Every Day on YouTube.

Khan Academy 40

Khan Academy Libraries MOOC eBook 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

link] Digital Wish : Two new videos - The Importance of Technology in American Schools and The Need for a Shift to Mobile. Get to know SnapThought – one of our assessment tools – and the new game Sortify, which adds another dimension to playful assessment. Check them out! Join here !

Conference 52

Conference Education Learning Common Core 52

ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

In order to reduce the amount of new content a teacher needs to make, YouTube videos, MOOC s, multiple choice questions and web-based resources can be combined. It is more than just working with a computer on self-assessed activities. These need to be carefully selected and modified to ensure they are appropriate for pupils.

Blended Learning 150

Blended Learning Learning Khan Academy MOOC 150

Testpress

JANUARY 18, 2018

A simple email / mobile push notification about the newly added test. Summative Assessments are long tests and are usually used to evaluate students. Formative Assessments are short tests which are usually provided as practice tests. of MOOC completion rates. How can this be applied to getting a student to write a test?

MOOC 40

MOOC Assessment Mobility Study 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. But Martin Cooper, a Motorola exec, made the first mobile telephone call in 1973, not 1983. The quotation is from 2012. And the Internet?

Trends 40

Trends Report iPhone Software 40

Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

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. Read a step by step approach from an instructor with lots of examples here. Gamify your syllabus! Transform activities into missions.

Digital Badges 326

Digital Badges MOOC Exercises Digital Learning 326

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses. Or Is There?

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Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51