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

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. So much so that one professor thinks that higher ed should probably be nervous—or at least that colleges should try to learn something from these well-funded efforts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There’s a budding field called the science of teaching and learning, where scholars are figuring out what works when it comes to educating students. 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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. There are widespread beliefs about the best way to teach and learn that have been proven wrong by science, yet they persist. But at a university? “We Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

“I find it much more engaging than reading a book,” says Engers, a 29-year-old data scientist, when asked why he does it. He’s one of about 2,500 volunteer beta testers for Coursera , and part of an expanded quality-control effort the company started in the past year. One factor, though, is cost.

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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

JUNE 17, 2020

That means blockchain efforts that provide “consistent ways to document their learning and bring their records with them” are more needed now than ever, the report argues. San Jose State Puts Blockchain on the Books How can libraries use ledgers? The San Jose State University School of Information is finding out.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape. Ahearn, an online learning manager for +Acumen, shares eight lessons learned about the field with a starter kit of what every hopeful instructional designer should know. Well, at least partially open.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

There’s even a growing body of scholarly work that outlines a critique against the corporatization of college—arguing that even when reforms are well-intentioned, they are making campuses more like burger franchises than centers of learning and research. That’s not what we went into this thinking we would learn.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Silicon Valley's historical amnesia — the inability to learn about, to recognize, to remember what has come before — is deeply intertwined with the idea of "disruption" and its firm belief that new technologies are necessarily innovative and are always "progress. AllLearn was short for Alliance for Lifelong Learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Learn more at ed.unc.edu/meite, on IG @UNCmeite , and Twitter @unc_Meite. 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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

Perhaps the biggest buzz was the $750-million purchase of Trilogy Education Services, an education company that helps set up and run short-term coding programs at university extension schools, by 2U, one of the biggest companies helping colleges set up online grad programs. So the innovation is not happening in undergrad?

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

When the Sloan Foundation had the bright idea to stimulate digital education at the nation’s colleges and universities a quarter of a century ago, it christened online learning as “asynchronous learning networks,” an eccentric name for what is now known simply as online learning. But it surely bet on a winning horse.

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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’ve acquired CAEL [the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning], and also InsideTrack.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

Cottom, who recently wrote the book “Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy,” is talking about what can happen when traditional non-profit universities partner with for-profit companies and institutions, such as Purdue’s recent decision to acquire Kaplan University. Then yep, we’re on board.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

The curriculum is project-based, and it’s focused on peer learning, meaning there are no professors. Even MOOCs have a professor, even if it might be one for 100,000 people. Bir: The idea is that the students are learning and teaching. That's really important in this learning environment. How did you learn?

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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. We could learn about maps and the geospatial revolution from a professor at Penn State University. million book images from the Internet Archive. . And so on… .

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

These are my prepared remarks, delivered on a panel titled “Outsourcing the Classroom to Ed Tech & Machine-learning: Why Parents & Teachers Should Resist” at the Network for Public Education conference in Indianapolis. Their products will make teachers’ work easier, faster, companies have always promised.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Join me Thursday, February 28th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com conversation with return guest Roger Schank to talk about his book Teaching Minds : How Cognitive Science Can Save Our Schools , why MOOCs won''t save schools or the world, and why everything you think you know about education is wrong.

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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. Educational media is at an inflection point.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I have learned so much in the intervening years, and my analysis then strikes me as incredibly naive and shallow. I was inspired, I think, to select that topic because talk of “platforms” was incredibly popular in Silicon Valley – it had been for a while – as companies strove to become “the next Facebook.”

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Wired Campus

MAY 21, 2015

An education blog whose authors believe there’s too much hype around “personalized learning” technology has posted a series of video case studies about the trend, hoping to help get beyond overheated rhetoric. The case studies, divided into short segments covering different topics, together resemble a MOOC.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. 2) You wrote a book on being a digital scholar in 2011. As to whether it''s a good thing or not, I''ve just written a whole book exploring some of this in The Battle for Open , so it''s difficult to say in a short answer.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 13, 2016

While this can seem a little overwhelming at first, the approach can also be extremely freeing, allowing the self-teacher to learn as deeply and as broadly about their chosen subject as they are willing and able. Life-long learning. How much learning is enough? Learning alone can, however, be a difficult road.

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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. Unported License.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Chistopher Edmin (Associate Professor at Teachers College Columbia University) uses history, practice and theory to explore education’s most pressing issues: a lack of diversity among teachers, challenges faced by educators of color, and absence of student voice in the learning design process. to 11:00 p.m. K-12 11:00 a.m. 2:00 p.m.

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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. We've been doing that for the last 40 years—with Prior Learning Assessment and with ACE credit recommendations.

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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.

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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. At ASU+GSV, I heard plenty of invocations about “digital natives” and “learning styles.” Who do they listen to, what stories do they hear, and what stories do they tell in turn?

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

” There’s more on legal battles involving student loan companies in the business of financial aid section below. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). From the press release : “IMS Global Learning Consortium Announces Open Badges 2.0 The third: lifelong learning. Certifications.”

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

Bush famously said in 2000, "Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?" So no, Khan Academy did not invent "personalized learning." " Yes, today's philanthropic foundations have been pushing another crisis narrative that proposes "personalized learning" is the solution.).

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 12, 2017

Discussing this with some educators today, they had a “matching” program with a company, that matched every dollar they raised, and yes, I would take that. These are all good questions… ones that students should be studying and researching, and learning about in school.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 17, 2017

Last year I read it twice and promised Fractus Learning this review but couldn’t come up with a hook. The company failed to see “the writing on the wall” and failed to innovate. Authentic learning and an authentic audience should be the cornerstones of contemporary education. Yes, that Dave Burgess who teaches like a pirate.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

If you doubt that, read the quote below from a Harvard professor about the half-life of learned skills. Learn how to learn. According to research published in the Instructional Science journal, individual students experience a broad variety of differentiation in their understanding of how to undertake the learning process.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

He is one of the pioneers of online and distance learning, and currently serves as the editor of the influential online open access journal International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning ( IRRODL ). When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. “Why are there 72 slides about gaming, from a company invested in EA, Zynga, Mobcrush, and Magic Leap?” There is much to learn from the Meeker report. ” he asks.

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