Learning with 'e's

JUNE 11, 2015

Martin Weller's keynote presentation at EDEN 2015 Conference was entitled 'The battle for open.' A professor of educational technology at the British Open University, he has been an advocate of openness in education for many years, but he expresses doubts over the outcome of the battle.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Early signs suggest that technology, smartly chosen and carefully implemented, can improve learners’ outcomes, lower costs and ease difficult transitions. For the values and outcomes that most matter to them. In its current form, our higher-education system amplifies and solidifies national inequities, when it could do the opposite.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Today is day four of the 2013 Global Education Conference. During the conference opening sessions we brainstormed as set of grassroots global education projects that we could bring to our personal learning networks to try to get started. To receive the daily conference schedule, be sure to join the Global Education Conference network.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Even in kindergarten, teacher Pauline Hayden schedules brief conferences every few weeks with each of her 20 students. “We Overall, the rise of online learning — from MOOCs to Khan Academy — makes “blended” learning that combines computer and live instruction feel normal to students. They set new goals, including nonacademic ones.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Ten Conversations Updates "Participatory, Continuous, Connected" | Top Trends from the Library 2.014 Conference. K12 Online Conference Continues Through October 30th. For more information visit [link].

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2019

It’s common these days to hear that free online mega-courses, called MOOCs, failed to deliver on their promise of educating the masses. But one outcome of that push towards open online courses was plenty of high-quality teaching material. Lue will present the project next week at the OpenEdX conference in San Diego.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2011

link] CARIBBEAN ONLINE EDUCATORS CONFERENCE 2011 ( Host Your Own Webinar Series ) Mon 8 Aug 07:00PM New York / Mon 8 Aug 11:00PM GMT / Tue 9 Aug 09:00AM Sydney LeRoy Hill. link] EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR ( Australia Series ) Mon 8 Aug 09:00PM New York / Tue 9 Aug 01:00AM GMT / Tue 9 Aug 11:00AM Sydney Coach Carole.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 27, 2011

Outcomes can be shared online. link] The 2011 Worldwide Virtual Library Conference November 2 - 3, All Free, All Online in Blackboard Collaborate Submit to present or to be kept informed at [link] EPCOP MOOC WEBINAR ( Australia Series ) Wed 31 Aug 06:00AM New York / Wed 31 Aug 10:00AM GMT / Wed 31 Aug 08:00PM Sydney Coach Carole.

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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 was certainly the outcome that investors were hoping for Edmodo , which raised $25 million in 2012, boasting that it had 15 million users. Remember Edmodo? .”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

China’s state-run Xinhua News Agency introduced its newest anchor to attendees at the World Internet Conference in the country’s eastern Zhejiang Province last week. We know from the rise in free massive open online courses, better known as MOOCs, that a scholar on a screen can and already has replaced the sage on the stage.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

There have been some calls recently that education technology needs to become a discipline – which I guess implies that the field is not one already, despite all the journals and departments and degrees and jobs and conferences and gatherings (like this one). The rationale for a discipline: more coherence, more prestige.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Recently, I found myself sitting in a conference room along with 200+ educators for one day workshop. Some had traveled for a few hours to be there just on time and some were still trickling in the conference room even after the workshop had started. One must respect and understand boundaries of professional and personal time.

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ProfHacker

JANUARY 19, 2016

Jargon: Someone uses the term MOOC. Most people I communicate with on Twitter are fully aware of what a MOOC is. Poor soul gets 10 different replies because everyone else knows what a MOOC is and is trying to be helpful. Or is it obvious to people who don’t know about Sean, MOOC MOOC or Hybrid Pedagogy.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

The Chronicle adopted a modified version of the format during a session at the South by Southwest Edu conference in March, with a panel of experts weighing in on five new products or ideas to fix pressing problems in higher education. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs. Cedel: Yeah, in a way.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

We want YOU to present at the Reinventing the Classroom conference on May 1st - all about the impact of ed tech on the classroom experience. If you''re going to ISTE or live in Atlanta, don''t miss ISTE Unplugged , our set of fun activities around the annual ISTE conference. Submissions are due by April 25th. More information here.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

” “Make MOOCs great again.” ” Speaking of Peter Thiel, “ Mark Zuckerberg : Facebook fake news didn’t sway election,” USA Today reports from the Techonomy conference. Here’s a list of election outcomes pertaining to library-related measures , thanks to EveryLibrary.org.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

The department’s proposed language would require a student borrower to demonstrate clear and convincing evidence that their college intended to deceive them or had a reckless disregard for the truth in making claims about job-placement rates, credit transferability and other outcomes.”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

The Flatiron School has released its latest “outcomes report.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Lots of MOOC PR appeared in the news this week. ” “What if MOOCs Revolutionize Education After All?” And more on MOOCs in the credentialing section below as well.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness. Uber for Education". “We

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Task Force Seeks Comment on Higher-Ed Outcomes Reporting Standards.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Here’s the headline from Inside Higher Ed : “For-Credit MOOC: Best of Both Worlds at MIT ?” ” Fox.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Throughout the year, the Department of Education also took steps to strengthen the oversight of accreditors, adding requirements regarding data that they had to report to the government and to the public as well as pressuring accreditors to do more to improve “student outcomes” at the schools they monitored. Microcredentials.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

Vogel was one of the professors who stood with Trump at the press conference in 2005 announcing the launch of Trump University. The State Department did partner with Coursera – Laureate Education is an investor – to promote MOOCs globally. ” The Wall Street Journal reported in April. How do we know?

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Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Nevertheless there is no empirical evidence in the UK that shows that students from academies (which are replacing local government-run schools) or institutional competition through tuition pricing in universities is leading to better learning outcomes.

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Hack Education

MARCH 2, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC news is now much more often “job training” news, so there’s more on MOOCs in that section below. From the press release : “ Campus Technology Conference to Merge with UBTech.” ” Icon credits: The Noun Project

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Chalkbeat investigates the Indiana Virtual School : “As students signed up, online school hired barely any teachers – but founder’s company charged it millions.” Educause is holding its annual conference this week. For-Profit Colleges.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 5, 2016

Dillon, the biology professor at the College of Charleston who resisted administrators’ requests that he update his syllabus with learning outcomes , is suing the South Carolina college and says he will retire.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs, CAI, and now this.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Whether it’s selling schools or MOOCs or access to the Internet itself , technology companies and education companies are, as Edsurge put it, “ Building Effective Edtech Business Models to Reach the Global Poor.” ” The material involved MOOCs that it had produced with edX as well as videos posted to iTunes and YouTube.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ For-Profit College Attendance Linked to Poor Financial Outcomes.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news down in the “labor and management” section below. ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Contests and Conferences. Bush Defends Legacy of No Child Left Behind at Education Business Conference.” ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. There’s coding bootcamp news in the venture capital section below. ”). .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Rebranding of MOOCs. Remember 2012 , “ The Year of the MOOC? Remember in 2012 when the media wrote about MOOCs with such frenzy, parroting all these marketing claims and more and predicting that MOOCs were poised to “ end the era of expensive higher education ”? MOOCs are not particularly "open."

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Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s New Strategy Takes Inspiration From Netflix – and LinkedIn.” ” There’s more MOOC-related research in the research section below. Go, School Sports Team! ” From the HR Department. ” (I admit.

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