Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Coursera was a pioneer in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses, in partnership with hundreds of top colleges. While attention around MOOCs has died down, the company seems to have found a business model for free courses with something it calls Specializations.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. Reading, English/Language Arts: 30 percent.

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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 At first sight, one might think they were employees coding the software, rather than the ones learning from it.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

She — and I recognize that teachers aren't always female, but the profession is certainly feminized — is alone in a classroom of other people's children, after all. Teachers might be less adept or even able to do the same when the classroom setting is digital.).

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

In some cases the very technologies that were intended to improve writing, like automatic-essay grading software, have backfired by encouraging a kind of paint-by-numbers approach to writing. People argue essay grading software can make things more efficient, and help bring down the high cost of education. But Warner is not anti-tech.

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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. A more Amazon-like experience.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Plagiarism detection software originated at universities. And online test proctoring software has roots at universities as well. But I want to call out Proctorio in particular in this talk because this company has demonstrated it has no business in schools; its products have no business in classrooms. Unfathomable. Impenetrable.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

MOOCs are just digital versions of the much maligned large group lecture, virtual flashcards are simply another tool for useless rote memorization, and online textbooks are just one more problematically unidirectional method of transmitting information without cultivating learning.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 12, 2015

But it is worth noting that many PTCC students are looking to get into highly technical jobs, which means that the staff at the college have to not only be good at teaching students like Edwin, they also have to be good at bringing cutting edge technology into the classroom.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

If I was still doing that now, I would be incredibly excited because so many wonderful resources would be available to my classroom. We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Each classroom operates differently — independence has one look in kindergarten and another in fifth grade — but students display a striking sense of academic self-awareness. “I In the classroom, if you want, you can sit at a table. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2020

Free lesson plans for helping teachers integrate technology into their digital classrooms. For example, Microsoft offers certification programs to professionals who wish to gain mastery of one or more of their varied software products. MOOCs are not an ideal way for most students to learn. Tech ed resources – online classes .

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It’s free for students, but the software isn’t free for all—teachers must pay $7 a year and Pro users pay $29 annually. Historian and Sutori CEO Thomas Ketchell says it’s been “amazing to see [Sutori] spread outside of the history classroom.” Comprend.io : Even as new technology and tools trickle into classrooms across the U.S.,

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Oberlin College, for example, with its motto of “Learning and Labor,” requires students during each month-long “ winter term ” to pursue growth opportunities outside the traditional classroom, such as internships, research, or other projects. That may pertain to issues of crediting experiential work outside the classroom.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

A handful of efforts attempt to turn their visions into reality, and they aren’t just making small tweaks: Some of these new colleges don’t have physical classrooms. What’s different: There are no physical classrooms, and all classes are held by synchronous video. What’s different: The campus will have no classrooms and no lectures.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

Prices range from $12 for an online, on-demand class about quality improvement to $9,000 for an online, synchronous course teaching software engineering. Some courses are entirely online, while others are designed to have in-person components. Some of these courses are not that cheap,” Zanville acknowledges.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. Remember Yahoo buying Blue Mountain, the e-greeting card website, for a billion dollars?

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 25, 2015

Today, Gaggle provides our Safe Classroom Learning Management System and Safety Management products for Google Apps for Education or Office 365 to millions of students who are creating, collaborating and sharing in a safe environment. Remember Yahoo buying Blue Mountain, the e-greeting card website, for a billion dollars?

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Wired Campus

MAY 21, 2015

The result is an unusual look at five colleges trying high-tech classroom experiments and wrestling with how new teaching methods change the role of students and teachers. The case studies, divided into short segments covering different topics, together resemble a MOOC. “We look at what’s working and what’s not.”

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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.”) It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. It’s now an LMS too.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

link] EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR ( Australia Series ) Mon 22 Aug 09:00PM New York / Tue 23 Aug 01:00AM GMT / Tue 23 Aug 11:00AM Sydney Coach Carole. Come join Tina and Barbara, of LiveBinders, and Dean Mantz as we talk learning in the 21st Century classroom. In general, references management software is expensive. link] CLASSROOM 2.0

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Have you ever felt that the traditional classroom structure we’ve all grown used to is a bit too limiting for the today’s day and age? Below you’ll find professional insight into: What is a flipped classroom approach? What challenges will you face within a flipped classroom approach? So what does this mean?

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

What do you think the whole MOOC thing George Siemens and I and others was about? His focus has been on traditional institutions of learning and the traditional classroom model. Is it the software we’ve created to simplify the process of integrating OER into any LMS via the open standards LTI and Common Cartridge?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Join us virtually as well for a one-day worldwide conference on Reinventing the Classroom on May 1st. Gain insightful design ideas and classroom management strategies that will help you focus on content delivery, and learn how to use ISTE Standards curriculum planning tools to personalize learning for every student. Classroom 2.0

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Educator Innovator

JULY 3, 2018

Much of the current rhetoric about technology and education relates to devices and software programs—what types schools should purchase, how much money districts should spend on them, how they should be integrated into classroom learning, and what return on investment they should produce.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Calendar Classroom 2.0 The deadline for proposals will be mid-March. LIVE Weekly Show Featured Teacher: Wes Fryer.

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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. MOOCs were going to change everything. The other panelists were Peter Greene and Leonie Haimson.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 16, 2020

Technology plays a prominent role in the modern classroom. Students use laptops, tablets, and myriad software to complete in-class work and at-home assignments. In a survey of 1,000 long-time high school teachers, 73% say their classrooms use laptops and tablets daily. Enroll in an online program. Teachers lead busy lifestyles.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 24, 2016

I hoped to move on from there to what I called “approaches”, ways of using tech that didn’t depend on a specific platform – i.e., gaming and gamification, blended learning, distance learning, MOOCs, mobile, and digital literacy. Conferences, like classrooms, are no longer closed spaces.).

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

An increasing number of educators are finding that collaborative, hands-on learning requires a different type of space than most traditional classrooms offer, and that the learning environment greatly impacts both pedagogy and student engagement. While this will drive the adoption of technology, it also requires explicit planning for equity.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

Most impressive demonstration of the possibilities of the software and of engaging ways to interpret the conference theme! " -Anonymous “This is a fantastic conference and I plan on using the recordings for my graduate student -professional teachers. Anonymous “Fantastic way to conference without leaving the classroom." -R.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

Incorporating technology in the classroom has paved the way for a myriad of innovative methods and practices that are aimed at improving upon teaching structures of the past. Blended learning enables me to effectively bring technology into the classroom. Read on below to find out what they had to say. What is blended learning?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Connexeo (school administration software): $110 million. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.) Vive la MOOC révolution. Yuanfudao (tutoring): $250 million. 17zuoye (tutoring): $200 million. Peilian.com (music education): $150 million.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Yildiz, Faculty DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER: Stephen Abram on 7 Tactics to Gain Big Savings Through Collaboration Gamifying for Librarians - Debbie Weissmann Ph.D.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

A number of colleges have partnered with big MOOC providers, principally Coursera and edX, to offer large-scale online courses at far lower prices, in part to attract new students to their higher-priced online degrees. But MOOC-based degrees are just at the starting line of what appears to be a rush to hang discount tags on online degrees.

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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. Like, how would you argue against “collaborative learning” as occurring – now or some day – in classrooms?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Or one could look at ed-tech companies that laid off staff: the coding bootcamp Galvanize , the analytics company Civitas Learning , the learning management system Schoology , MOOC provider Coursera , the education giant Pearson , for example. ” Instead, it said it would offer some diagnostic tools online.

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