Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

“They want to serve in their own locales, but their markets need to go farther,” says Holly Zanville, a research professor and co-director of the Program on Skills, Credentials, and Workforce Policy at George Washington University who recently published a commissioned report about Unmudl.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

As my Entangled Solutions colleagues Amber Laxton, Yury Lifshits and I write in a new report, 10 Trends Ahead for Continuing Education , continuing education programs are an ideal place to not only test new ideas, but also launch new programs. MOOCs are not the only ones that offer on-demand learning today.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? What can that look like? When Dan D.

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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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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.” State and Local) Education Politics. ” Education in the Courts.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If they are right, it would mean short-circuiting the famous “10,000-hour rule” based on studies by education researcher Anders Ericsson and popularized by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.” Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Teachers would tell me at conferences what I needed to help my son with, they would tell me how he was behaving and everything they did in class, like what they were studying,” said Carolina Rosales, a mother of two elementary-school kids. The portal might tell me he failed an assignment, but what does that tell me?”.

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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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Learning with 'e's

MAY 7, 2013

A recent study from the University of Illinois reports on the use of the tweets sent by 70 million Twitter users found that on average, tweets and retweets were sent by people located more than 750 miles away from the message originators. Distance Education social media relationships MOOCs Twitter FaceBook' Unported License.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

PrepFlash takes some of the tediousness out of studying by writing flashcards for learners. Sutori] appealed to me from the very beginning… I studied literature in college, and had I had a tool like this, it would have changed the way I learned.” million assessments, and is on track to hit 4 million in 2017.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2019

Blair While studying abroad at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, Mike Mahlkow saw how financing American education differs from that of his home country of Germany. Y Combinator President Geoff Ralston, left, and CEO Michael Seibel take questions from reporters before the second Demo Day of 2019.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

" But the answers to that question are, of course, bound up in our beliefs and practices and expectations, in our assessments of what "preparedness" even means. Grades 7A, 8A and 8B each have broadcasts in two studies daily, and grades 3 through 7B have one each." Like a MOOC, but in the school gym.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

I spoke tonight in Dorothy Kim's class "Race Before Race: Premodern Critical Race Studies." 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 have volunteered to be a guest speaker in classes this Fall. Here's a bit of what I said.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Via The Hechinger Report : “Most immigrants outpace Americans when it comes to education – with one big exception.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Research, “Research,” and Reports. ” Spoiler alert: Latinos. Education in the Courts.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

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. But that assumes a positive experience, and that is something that remains to be seen and needs to be studied.

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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. So here is the consensus from the past twelve years of the Horizon Report for higher education. The quotation is from 2012. How do you do that?

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

I’ve taken a MOOC on algorithms and read, in whole or in part, books and articles that contain significant discussions of computer science-y things like time complexity and NP-completeness. By-hand computation in this class is important, in fact the "Foundational Skills" are all assessed through by-hand computation.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

These legendary insta-vacations were to be replaced with “cyber days,” where students would keep pace with their studies online at home. Goodbye snowmen and hot chocolate and hello MOOCs and remote check-ins! A cursory glance at the Tech & Learning newsfeeds this winter suggests that transformation has been more hype than hope.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Recent educational research studies indicate “One Shot Professional Development” does not bring change to classroom instruction, implementation, and student performance. For successful outcomes, plan teacher PD sessions avoiding holidays, weekends, extended school days and reporting/ assessment cycles.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The answer has been “yes” for some years, and I’m not talking about MOOCs or University of Phoenix. Also occuring this year was an outside assessment of the project , conducted by Ithaka S&R. How can colleges and universities share courses online? It’s a form of inter-institutional collaboration.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Students like Battushig who used free online courses to achieve world-class education motivated players like Coursera and the State Department to launch initiatives like Learning Hubs and MOOC camps from Vietnam to Bolivia. However, recent studies reveal significant challenges, including low completion rates and poorly trained teachers.

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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.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. That was certainly the case in our experience.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

This is the last Hack Education Weekly News of the year because next week I am publishing a very abbreviated review of 2018, and I won’t need to study in detail what happens each week anymore. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” That approach: Reggio Emilia. Immigration and Education.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

Blumenstyk as a reporter surveying the landscape, Mr. Jones as a professor and administrator at a college, and Mr. Freedman as an investor looking for the next big thing in education technology. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. I mean, MOOCs aren’t learning platforms, they’re distribution platforms.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

.” “Three months after the former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in jail for sexual assault, he was released on Friday,” NPR reports. ” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp. The states in question: Texas and Nevada.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

.” MIT , New York University , and Yale are being sued by employees, “accused of allowing their employees to be charged excessive fees on their retirement savings,” The New York Times reported on Tuesday. From the US Department of Education’s blog : “Building the Next Generation of Assessments in Education.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

“Publishers Wiley , Cengage , Pearson and McGraw-Hill Education have won a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against a seller of fake textbooks ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Techcrunch reports that “ Sesame Street turns to Kickstarter to fund autism book.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

.” “ Tech Is Dominating Efforts To Educate Syrian Refugees ,” reports NPR. 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. Would-be students have many immediate needs.

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

While most of the headlines this week about Puerto Rico addressed the fact that a Harvard study found the death toll from Hurricane Maria hit almost 5000, Edsurge runs with a happy story about the island : “Months After a Devastating Hurricane, Puerto Rican Schools Turn to the Sun.” Research, “Research,” and Reports.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

“The Trump Administration Has Revoked A Federal Directive On Campus Rape ,” Buzzfeed reports. 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.” (National) Education Politics. Percent Return.”

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Hack Education

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

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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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. ” Research, “Research,” and Reports.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. It’s the model of human learning by someone who claims expertise in machine learning, a field of study which has aspired to model if not surpass the human mind.

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