Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

A “Facebook Classes Instructor” group shows roughly 3,100 people signed up to trial the program. If you’re interested in learning to code: I’m creating a Facebook group where I and others are going to teach free classes - enough to get you to the point you could start charging a bit, so you can get paid to learn the rest.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

While not quite the “Year of the MOOC,” 2018 saw a resurgence in interest around the ways these massive open online courses are delivering free (and more often these days, not free) online education around the world, and how these providers are increasingly turning to traditional institutions of learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. Some of them are even still talking to him.

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Fractus Learning

MAY 19, 2016

While educators and learners in classroom-based courses have already discovered the benefits of using engagement as a part of education, the power of online is yet to be fully realized. Ana Donaldson, 2011, Engaging the Online Learner. This could happen to your online program: Students Suing School Over Online Courses.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2013

This is the fourth blog post in my series on the future of learning and technology. What will be the future of school classrooms? It is unlikely that we will see the demise of the classroom in the next decade. Cuban is very sceptical of online courses, and presumably his sceptiscism also embraces MOOCs.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

You worked in a traditional university and then moved to Ashford—what attracted you to online learning? When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. Dr. Jongbok Byun How does online learning benefit students?

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Here we are talking about virtual campus management solutions or online learning management solutions that can essentially digitize the teaching-learning. Data-Driven Results As an institution, the way you treat education and manage it is different from MOOCs or short-term online courses.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

The latest, MEDSKL , aims to provide comprehensive medical content for use inside and outside the classroom. In a lot of classrooms, our modules are becoming required learning,” Sharma says. “As As a result, classes are becoming much more interactive, with small group sessions rather than one-hour lectures.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2016

And, like Turkle, we are concerned that the predominant uses of technology in higher education—both in the workplace and the classroom—do not place human connections and conversations at their center. Much of what passes for innovation in online education is an attempt to reproduce the classroom—and often not what works best in the classroom.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

As online course platforms proliferate, institutions of all shapes and sizes realize that they’ll need to translate content into digital forms. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

Kim, Researcch Scientist in the Learning Systems Lab, MIT What is your mission? MOOCs, technology infusion projects, online masters or pathways to credit, research. Interesting (to me, Sandy) that some digital learning groups/departments were created in the wake of Coursera.

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Fractus Learning

JUNE 27, 2016

Your role is to not only engage with adult learners, but also help to facilitate and encourage learning. When you do this you are creating a social framework in the online classroom that learners can learn, mimic and use in their professional careers. Most online instructors want to avoid wrapping.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

Notes from the Discussion We no longer have to go to school if we want to learn. edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Important for modeling classroom management.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But there’s one group in particular that we’d like to call out—our contributors. CHROME AT HOME: Chromebooks are on the rise in American classrooms, and many teachers are in favor of allowing students to bring them home. Two teachers and two administrators representing four states across the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Goel has already helped to build such tools for use in his own classroom and worldwide through collaborations with the Smithsonian Institution. Is the purpose of building tools to improve online education because that is the most accessible and widespread kind of education, as opposed to requiring students to come to a classroom?

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Redesigning Learning Spaces: Panelists identified changing learning spaces as a trend that educators and district leaders have embraced for quite some time and which is likely to continue. Teachers have long known learning is a social process — when students create meaning together, often the results are much more effective.

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GoConqr

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

But that hasn’t stopped us from asking a number of experts in education and technology to gaze into their crystal balls and share their thoughts on one major EdTech trend we can expect to see lighting up learning and one major challenge that education will face in 2016. Technology and the classroom – major trends and challenges.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

A quick round of introductions revealed some interesting trends: a growing number of liberal arts institutions are launched or growing online learning programs; many sought to find the distinct ways liberal arts institutions, and campuses pursuing liberal education, can use technology. Online learning is on the rise.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. So what have we learned so far?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. “At the most general level,” Srnicek writes. ” But what did Facebook do?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Writing about online learning in higher education over the last several years, I often noted the steady growth of remote learning nationwide against the sluggish adoption of digital instruction among most Ivy League colleges. But getting your degree at an Ivy League college means mostly sitting in a classroom.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

When did you first become involved with research into distance education and online learning? Steve: Massive Open Online Courses are currently a major focus of attention for academic, corporates and even governments, and indeed have been covered extensively by the media recently. What are your views on MOOCs?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Learning Models, Theories, and Technology: A Dictionary For 21st Century Teachers. Purpose: Improving our chance for a common language in discussing existing and emerging learning trends, model, and technology in hopes of innovation in classrooms, and collectively, education at large. Challenge-Based Learning.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

events , the real party takes place in the volunteer moderator lounge, where a devoted, energetic, and highly beloved group of volunteer moderators keeps the conference running and humming. Lori Trent, STEM Coordinator - Innovator of Inspiration and Magic RADIO SOLIDARIA AMIGA, ONLINE, UNA HERRAMIENTA INNOVADORA - Mª Magdalena Galiana Lloret.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

He’s the guy who coined the term MOOC, short for Massive Open Online Course, which then was a reference to multiplayer video games. As a result of that, universities have been slow to catch on to things like online learning as a broad structure. The other day I was scrolling through Twitter when a message caught my eye.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway. The shift to remote work in the pandemic also fueled the purchase of low-cost subscriptions to online training libraries.

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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. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. You can now find out.

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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Career Training Groups Encouraged by Trump Pick for CTE Job.” “Free College” Via Edsurge : “For Free Community College , Online Learning Isn’t Always Part of the Recipe for Success.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 30, 2011

If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you''ll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups! Thanks for your attention, and see you online! This is an online learning conference sponsored by the Region XI Education Service Center in Fort Worth, Texas.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

But then their teacher, Will Colglazier, demonstrated how a couple more exploratory clicks—critically, beyond the site itself—revealed that the Employment Policies Institute is considered by the Center for Media and Democracy to be a front group created by lobbyists for the restaurant and hotel industries. “I

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

John Bel Edwards has agreed to a mandate that cursive writing must be taught in Louisiana ’s public school classrooms.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). There hadn’t been any education IPOs this year until China Online Education Group ’s this week.

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Hack Education

JUNE 1, 2018

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Higher-Ed Groups Warn Against Visa Restrictions for Chinese Students.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via The Diplomat : “ Online Learning in North Korea.” Perhaps “ kidnap ” is more accurate.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Chalkbeat : “After flying under the radar, school districts’ online programs attract attention – and scrutiny.” ” Via Techcrunch : “ Amazon opens its internal machine learning courses to all for free.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” “Make MOOCs great again.” ’ Inside America’s classrooms in the wake of Trump’s win.” ” On the other side of the issue: “ Civil rights group makes legal case for controversial Education Dept. “The Failure of the iPad Classroom” by David Sax. million total.

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