Edsurge
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
I’d send instructors off into virtual classrooms, practically on their own, with little or no support. After all, most professors started out believing they were destined to do scholarly work, perform research, publish results and teach in classrooms; but for most, teaching online was not what they had in mind. Sink or swim.
Learning with 'e's
MARCH 6, 2015
Downes was speaking at the ELI 4th International Conference on e-Learning and Distance Education held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Rows of seats still persist in the classrooms of many schools, and direct instruction still holds sway. And this was exactly the guiding principle of the earliest MOOCs. Unported License.
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Learning with 'e's
DECEMBER 17, 2015
Our final #EDENchat of 2015 focused on new learning environments, namely MOOCs, flipped classrooms and blended learning methods. Those who participated shared their experiences of MOOCs and flipped learning both as teachers and as learners. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. Unported License.
Learning with 'e's
SEPTEMBER 25, 2019
Huge attrition rates still exist today in online education, especially in some of the latest forms such as MOOCs. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. They craved active engagement - if they are passive in online environments, it isn't long before they lost interest. Unported License.
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.
Edsurge
AUGUST 8, 2016
Stephen Downes , senior researcher at the National Research Council of Canada and co-creator of the MOOC, began with an overview of the predictive process, saying it “isn’t magic, but it’s not mechanical either.” Here are some of our biggest takeaways from the marathon event: INNOVATION OR TRANSFORMATION IN EDUCATION? Samsung’s Bio-Processor.
Edsurge
JUNE 9, 2020
He also knew that the notion of introducing what he called “learning engineers” would face resistance from faculty convinced they already knew perfectly well what they were doing in their classrooms. “A If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” colleges, but that has grown to more than 10,000 today.
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