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

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

With less than a week until the storytelling-themed keynote kicks things off, we combed through the sessions, workshops and talks that will be filling our heads, and our Twitter feeds, in the days to come. Moth vets Chris De La Cruz, Crystal Duckert and Tim Manly will speak on social justice, hip-hop in learning, teachers’ feelings and more.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2018

My sense is she was here to listen and learn,” he added. They need learning environments that are agile, relevant and exciting. Every student deserves a customized self-paced and challenging lifelong-learning journey.” Betsy DeVos at SXSW EDU 2018. Sometimes government moves slowly for good reason.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Many of the new academic-innovation efforts at colleges started about three years ago, amid widespread hype around massive open online courses, or MOOCs. In industry, he adds, companies often set up innovation efforts that they later abandon. What I sense in this group is a lot of anxiety,” he says.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

In fact, aside from the predictable few flickers of Facebook and Twitter, it seemed most of the students were actually working on something productive. The current wave of education technology has been fraught with pedagogically unsound replications of the worst aspects of teaching and learning.

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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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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 27, 2016

Today at 8pm GMT, the second #EDENchat of 2016 will be live on Twitter. Follow the hashtag and join in the chat as we discuss issues around open learning and open scholarship. 3) How are MOOCs and other massive open study opportunities changing or influencing out thinking as educators? 4) Is open content truly 'free'?

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources. Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity. In some ways, this is nothing new.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

EdSurge is all about exploring one fundamental question: How can learning be supported by technology? With an eye on improving students’ learning, we adopted a cheerful green banner and plunged into examining how entrepreneurs, teachers and administrators were beginning to collaborate. And that’s what we hope to do in higher education.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 17, 2017

George has a few more follower Twitter followers than me; well, 141 000 more to be exact! 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. Indeed, he is the Justin Timberlake of educational innovation.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2015

April 9th - April 20th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. You can follow us on Twitter at #liveclass20. Second Monday of each month is the Teacher Librarian Twitter Chat.

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. This practice is not necessarily radical,not disruptive, but should be part of the fabric of how we teach and learn now. I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. Users had to learn a galaxy of technologies (DNS, FTP, etc).

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Bryan Alexander

APRIL 12, 2016

Twitter activity during the hour was also very energetic, so I Storified it. This practice is not necessarily radical,not disruptive, but should be part of the fabric of how we teach and learn now. I asked about how Jim’s company, Reclaim Hosting , is doing. Users had to learn a galaxy of technologies (DNS, FTP, etc).

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Please share in the comments or via Twitter. ”. For context, we need to go a little father back, to the piece last week on Wired– The Techies Who Are Hacking Education by Homeschooling Their Kids –that is getting a lot of run on twitter recently. So self-guided inquiry-based and mobile learning. Learning simulations.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

that allow adults to pursue lifelong learning. Make sure to carve out time to invest in learning new things in a more focused way than you would be able to do while working hard at your day job. Check out our growing list of MOOCs and Courses on the EdSurge Index. Figure out where they live on and offline.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

. “Nothing has more potential to enable us to reimagine higher education than the massive open online course, or MOOC, platforms that are being developed by the likes of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and companies like Coursera and Udacity.” Learning objects. Learning portals.

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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.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

” Here DeMillo changes tack from neuroscience (chapter 3) and returns to technology, but not very much to MOOCs. The focus now is technology for personalized learning, including data analytics. Revolution in Higher Education now sees us in the midst of a complex breakthrough in teaching and learning. ” (2247).

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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. Adaptive learning platforms and learning algorithms. 30 Examples Of Disruptions In The Classroom.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

The other day I was scrolling through Twitter when a message caught my eye. He’s the guy who coined the term MOOC, short for Massive Open Online Course, which then was a reference to multiplayer video games. So we called him up to get beyond the tiny character limit of Twitter to hear out his critique.

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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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Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Google) biotech company, Calico.

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ProfHacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Justin Reich and Mizuko (Mimi) Ito have recently published a report entitled From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes: Equity by Design in Learning Technologies. The report’s methodology is to give details on shared research, learning, insights and conclusions from two workshops conducted in February and May of 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Even before a deluge of fibs and fakery swamped our recent election cycle, Wineburg and company realized that readers of online news need many of the same skills used by a good historian, such as identifying the sources of claims and asking questions about their evidence. Sign up for our newsletter to get a weekly update on blended learning.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 17, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Wants Students to Learn Bleeding-Control Methods to Prepare for School Shootings.” How’d He Learn to Fly?” Via The New York Times : “This Company Keeps Lies About Sandy Hook on the Web.” ” Go, School Sports Team!

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly sharing five school districts’ private information with an advisory company while it was negotiating for the districts’ contracts.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” (Hmm. .” Via The Washington Post : “Former U-Va.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Mostly tutoring companies.). “ ICE officials have invited tech companies, including Microsoft , to develop algorithms that will track visa holders’ social media activity ,” ProPublica reports. ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The University of Iceland has joined edX.

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Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. With enough data and some machine learning, you can identify – statistically – the most common obstacles. Is learning “like a map”?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. There were many remembrances penned for Seymour this year.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Via The Conversation : “What we can learn from closure of charter school that DeVos praised as ‘shining example’ ” The school in question: the Excel Academy Public Charter School in DC which was closed for poor performance. Yes, “that pays superintendents to attend meetings with educational tech companies.”

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

The Huffington Post filed Twitter’s response to Ivanka Trump ’s announcement under “comedy.” Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Pulls Plug on ‘ Learning Registry ,’ an Obama-Era Tech Initiative.” Via The New York Times : “ Texas Students Will Now Learn That Slavery Was ‘Central’ to the Civil War.” the nation’s third-largest student loan servicing company.” ” $19.8

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” DeVos visited my hometown of Casper, Wyoming to give this speech where she spoke at the Woods Learning Center. SoFi : a student loan company and one of the most well-funded ed-tech companies out there sure seems swell. The accreditor: the Higher Learning Commission. Her Wyoming speech offers clues.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2018

” – “This includes how long-distance learning programs are defined.” ” Sandler is also the founder of the ed-tech company Nibletz. ” I’m putting this story here as it discusses VCs’ willingness to continue to invest in Mike Cagney , the former head of the student loan company SoFi.

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