Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A decade ago, large-scale online courses known as MOOCs were all the rage, touted as a possible alternative to traditional college and celebrated in the popular press. Talbert had taken MOOCs back when they first started and was unimpressed. The answer to that is definitely no because there was no professor in the course.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Five years ago, I published a book on the future of university credentials, making some predictions about what seemed likely to come next in the market for degrees and emerging forms of alternative college credentials. In my book I might have been a bit overly optimistic about the resistance of traditional higher ed, however.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A new book, “ Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education ,” looks at how to create systems that apply the science of learning into actual teaching. EdSurge: Although you describe yourselves as the “innovation” guys, you stress in your book that you’re not the “disruption guys.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2018

MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines. So we talked with Dhawal Shah, founder and CEO of Class Central, who has been tracking MOOCs closely ever since he was a student in one of those first Stanford open courses, about how MOOCs have evolved.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape. A few weeks after EdSurge probed the company about the silence, Amazon opened up the resource library to the public. Prices for these courses range from $29 to $99, and financial aid is available.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

And it doesn't help, of course, that there is, in general, a repudiation of history within Silicon Valley itself. Some of these other examples appear in the introduction of my forthcoming book, which I won't spoil since I have to save a chapter like that for the book tour — if we can do book tours. We cannot forget this.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype. That’s the case for Davis, who for several years was a producer of video classes for HarvardX, Harvard’s MOOC production wing. “I

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

One of the most-cited versions of the critique is the 2002 book “ The McDonaldization of Higher Education ,” by Dennis Hayes and Robin Wynyard. The formulation is meant to provoke, and the authors boil their argument into four bullet points (adopting the style and spirit of the business books they critique).

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2023

She also teaches Learning How to Learn , one of the most popular Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. Olav Schewe, consultant based in Oslo, Norway, who has worked with universities and companies to advise them on how to use insights from neuroscience to make better learning programs and tools.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

If it weren't for economic necessity, online might not have grown to the force it has today—these days a third of the nation's higher ed students take courses online. When online was first introduced as a pedagogical advance, faculty members often rose up against it —or more often, just ignored it, the most devastating form of resistance.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. 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.”

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Washington Post : “SEC settles fraud charges against defunct for-profit college company ITT.” Because honestly, where else would you put news about that private school company but in the surveillance section.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

As online learning companies compete for the attention and wallets of learners, players like MasterClass , Linked Learning , Cognotion and Harvard are investing in producing videos that are so beautiful they could be National Geographic documentaries or sitcom pilots. Some courses will require creating more of one type of video than another.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

That, in theory, will allow each campus to focus its energies on what it can do best and turn to outside companies and nonprofits for the rest. EdSurge: One idea in your book that struck me is what you call “ the networked college.” They’re just a bunch of courses by very smart people, produced beautifully.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Even MOOCs have a professor, even if it might be one for 100,000 people. You were sitting at the computer, and were you looking at MOOCs from other colleges, or were you tapping the person next to you to ask a question? Does your model at 42 work because there are so many MOOCs and other free courses online now?

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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. million book images from the Internet Archive. . Instead of being limited to my teaching and our textbook, we’d have access to an entire planet of experts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

Virtually all of the microcredentials that have been launched and offered—and where the enrollments are and where companies appear most interested—are oriented toward professional and technical skills and disciplines. You're going to get individuals learning from different sources, but how is it assessed and endorsed and standardized?

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Amazon has become one of the most valuable companies in the world—with a current market value of $475 billion —based on its domination of e-commerce (holding an astounding 50 percent share of all online retail sales); its leadership in the cloud computing business ; and the strength of its software algorithms. Earlier this month, M.I.T.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

I chaired the OU''s first big elearning course in 1999 with 12,000 students which really demonstrated the potential for elearning. blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. 2) You wrote a book on being a digital scholar in 2011. 5) What is your response to the criticism of MOOCs (e.g.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

His latest book , also entitled 'The battle for open' carries the strapline 'how openness has won and why it doesn't feel like a victory'. As with the green movement, openness now has a market value and is subject to new tensions, such as venture capitalists funding MOOC companies.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

Although we have made incredible strides in expanding access to education over the course of the past century, that access has always been unevenly distributed as are the conflicts and crises that undermine education systems and educational justice everywhere. Don't worry, I'll be back to talk more about that when the book comes out.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 13, 2016

In a similar vein, it was Henry Ford’s own desire to understand how machines work (first pocket-watches, later gasoline-powered engines) that helped to pave the way for the Ford Motor Company. They may subscribe to magazines or journals, read books written by thought-leaders, attend talks and presentations, or simply sift through news online.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. DeSchryver and Cavanagh will look at how ESSA is guiding the work of edtech companies now and in the future. Monday, March 6 9:30 a.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? But will VR and AR live up to its hype? 2:00 p.m.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

VCs often speak of having an “investment thesis” – a strategy for why they fund certain companies. ” This happens all the time, of course, and not just at “business of education” conferences. Who do they listen to, what stories do they hear, and what stories do they tell in turn?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Companies have been selling their products – textbooks, workbooks, maps, films, and so on – to schools for well over a century. Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. Augment, not replace, of course. And on and on and on.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Rarely, it seems, is anybody ever specifically tasked with teaching students a step-by-step course in how to learn. Some of these courses are offered through the university system, but many others are made available outside of traditional academia. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

I used distance education courses to complete a Masters degree and soon was involved in distance education delivery for a local community college. Now of course access means time and place shifting for distance education students who mostly live in large cities. Terry: Of course the proliferation of web 2.0

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

Educational publishers, who till now had a steady stream of income compared to non-educational book publishers, due to the recurring need for textbooks every year by students, are now gradually shifting towards digital publishing. It offers unlimited access to digital textbooks and course materials for $119.99 a semester.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 17, 2017

This, of course, is all rather tongue in cheek, as George is undoubtedly a leading educational thinker whose “reach and influence” now rivals the likes of the sainted Sir Ken Robinson. The company failed to see “the writing on the wall” and failed to innovate. Education cannot become the new Blockbuster.”. The Innovator’s Mindset p.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

But companies looking to differentiate themselves in this increasingly competitive sector have to bring something new to the table. The Boston-based company today announced the close of a $7.5 million Series A that will expand its range of intensive executive-level courses and digital learning tools.

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Wired Campus

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Horn, a co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, stepped down Friday as director of its education program to begin working more directly with companies in the education market. Johnson, of the 2008 book Disrupting Class. “That’s classic disruption,” he says.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

We’ve made the full recording available as usual, via this direct link or the following embed: Inspired by her recent book, The Test , I began the conversation by asking how testing may change over the next few years, according to what the author learned from researching its history. This works in a low-stakes settings, like a MOOC.

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

Many universities, like Stanford, have caught on to that trend and are already offering courses and degrees in gamification. In fact I am currently working on a Master-level course at a University in Berlin in which there are no formal teacher-led lectures. She has authored 6 books on education. Click To Tweet.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It’s an intense research project that usually tops out at about 75,000 words, written over the course of four to six weeks. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.). .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. I assumed that they looked to see if the company could do what it promised – financially, technologically. One should be conscientious, as such.

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