Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

Why was the fitness app so “sticky” as opposed to the online learning platforms? How could we apply the same practices to learning? I’ve come to believe that one of the biggest misunderstandings about online learning is that it has to be limited to things that can be done in front of a computer screen. What was happening?

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s a trilogy in the making, and for 2U’s third chapter, the online program management company wants in on bootcamps. That was the focus of the company for its first nine years—or “chapter one,” as Paucek described in a conference call with investors on Monday morning. To date, 2U runs 58 such programs at 36 universities.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Just outside the walls of the ivory tower, a transformation is underway in the world of corporate learning, and those of us at colleges and universities should pay attention. Corporate learning and development, often referred to as L&D, is radically different than just a few years ago. Similarly, LinkedIn’s $1.5

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

People are using it in the hundreds, not the tens of thousands,” says Julian Alssid, chief marketplace engagement officer at SocialTech.ai, the company that runs the Unmudl platform. Course profiles feature statistics about typical industry salaries and list the companies that have hired completers. Now, it just needs students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2018

My sense is she was here to listen and learn,” he added. Wallerstein meanwhile called the challenge around economic and social mobility “the whole shooting match.” They need learning environments that are agile, relevant and exciting. Every student deserves a customized self-paced and challenging lifelong-learning journey.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Edtech companies use these buzzwords to describe the next generation of learning tools. Without imposed schedules, proximity to peers, or physical classrooms, even the best-intentioned students never make it through a MOOC or fail to reengage with the educational app they downloaded. “Self-paced.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

More than half of the accelerator’s current education companies offer ISAs to attract students to their services. The accelerator provides companies with $150,000 in seed funding for 7 percent of the company. The company has disbursed money to about 15 students so far and has funds for about 30 more students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

As more adults than ever before enroll in postsecondary education programs and a variety of players—from bootcamps to online and mobile course providers—offer options tailored to match adults’ work and family circumstance, traditional colleges and universities have struggled to keep pace.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Now that we’ve assembled international crowds of motivated, smart people online in MOOCs, it’s time to think about harnessing their collective intelligence to tackle these urgent cross-boundary issues. To facilitate this, we’ve landed on a new format for synchronous online learning that’s a mashup of a webinar and crowdfunding platform.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

This year’s cohort, whose products range from game-based learning to AI-generated flashcards, has a lot to be excited about. The program announced that last year, participants like tutoring app company GotIt! It’s the eighth startup project for CEO Cy Megnin, who’s raised $500,000 for the company so far.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2016

The infusion of innovative learning systems and computerization into educational settings promises to create significant change in the near future. These changes will impact both the way students learn and the appearance of traditional classroom settings. The Learning Management System Revolution.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Ed-tech is not a tool that exists only in the service of improving teaching and learning, although that's very much how it gets talked about. The company was founded in 1998 by UC Berkeley doctoral students who were concerned about cheating in the science classes they taught. The company works both ends of the plagiarism market.

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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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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 16, 2015

blogs, social media, learning objects, OERs, MOOCs, etc in this period. I think many MOOCs (and MOOC providers) will struggle to find a sustainable financial model in their current guise. 5) What is your response to the criticism of MOOCs (e.g. large scale dropouts, superficial learning)?

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 5, 2016

I asked if the mobile world offers a partial way to address inequality of access, since we know poorer Americans, plus blacks and hispanics, tend to use mobile devices more often and for more purposes than wealthy and white people. We then dove into the learning management system ( LMS in the US; VLE in Europe ).

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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. In some ways, this is nothing new.

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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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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 4, 2013

Small start ups and giant MOOCS. Adult learning space, higher Ed, and K-12 all have different needs so they create different markets. All of the panelists are from companies that connect teachers directly to students. Building learning content that students can access on their own. Course Hero - 80% higher Ed students.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. There are, after all, only so many times you can put “mobile” on your list of “what’s on the horizon” before folks begin to suspect your insights might not be that… insightful. ” he asks.

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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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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 2, 2019

But how do they compete with resources like MOOCs and OERs that have made high quality course content from respected university professors available for free? A lot of media, telecom, eCommerce, software companies use this model, where customers pay for the service or product for a specific time period. a semester.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The tech-wielding entrepreneurial dad and the avante garde, life-hacking mom team-up (you have to) to lead the learning of their own three children using a combination of their personalized attention, and the growth of technology. The cost of starting a company has gone down because there are online tools you can use for free.

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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. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. The quotation is from 2012. Fantasy. .”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

The corporate learning environment has been experiencing a great deal of development over recent years. Gone are the days when the organization dictated what should be learned and how. Here are some of the trends that you'll start to notice in corporate learning in the near future.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

4 days 24 hours/day 127 live sessions 27 keynote speakers.and an amazing amount of global learning and fun! Please register HERE to get instant access to the conference AND to receive all the recording links after the conferences. Full details are here.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 8, 2015

This post is actually intended to supplement the “Cycle of Learning Innovation” model that will be publishing tomorrow (7.7.2015), which means this is less about analysis and context and more about the examples. Planned obsolescence of mobile technology. Adaptive learning platforms and learning algorithms.

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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. These dynamics are at the center of what my colleagues and I have been studying in our recent research with employers exploring this new landscape for workplace learning.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). Beyond the MOOC. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Education (Or Not).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2017

Hint: “It’s mobile,” “We have a better UI,” and “It’s for millennials” are not the answers. Student engagement and retention mobile apps. Bloomz , ClassDojo , Remind ), established companies ( SchoolMessenger ), and other deep pocket players from learning management system providers that already boast significant traction here.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. Raise $146.1

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Hack Education

AUGUST 17, 2018

Via The Washington Post : “Going mobile: The government’s most crucial financial aid form.” ” One huge problem with the new mobile version of the FAFSA : you can’t use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool on it. And that makes the mobile app pretty useless, IMHO. How’d He Learn to Fly?”

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Bryan Alexander

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Blended learning , n. Also referred to as “teaching”, “learning”, and “the real world” Blogging , v. A tentative recognition that learning might occur outside of academia. Lifelong learning , n. Mobile , n. MOOC , n. May it entertain, and all be forgiven.

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Hack Education

APRIL 14, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via the Coursera blog : “New mobile features: Transcripts, notes, and reminders.” " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. The learn-to-code company has raised $1.19

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). “ MOOCs no longer massive, still attract millions,” Class Central’s Dhawal Shah claims in a VentureBeat op-ed. Udacity ’s mobile apps now support “ offline learning.” ITT has closed its doors. Buyer beware, FFS.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Andrew Ng , Co-Founder of Coursera , Returns to MOOC Teaching With New AI Course.” ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

APRIL 21, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via WCTI12.com com : “Boy, 8, drives to McDonald’s after learning how online.” ” “ MOOCs Started Out Completely Free. Via the Udacity blog : “ Udacity Launches Mobile Developer Education with Facebook at F8.”

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