Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

The venture-backed startup based in Mountain View (near all those online giants like Google and Facebook) has partnered with more than 150 colleges and universities around the world (including the old and famous ones like Princeton and Yale). It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

More than two dozen states now partner with Credential Engine, using the Credential Transparency Description Language it developed to assemble, sort through and better understand their education and workforce data. And some state governments are applying this system to help their residents directly. provide credentials: 59,692.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2018

MOOCs are No Longer Massive. Once upon a time, free online courses known as MOOCs made national headlines. So we talked with Dhawal Shah, founder and CEO of Class Central, who has been tracking MOOCs closely ever since he was a student in one of those first Stanford open courses, about how MOOCs have evolved.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

One of our portfolio companies LearnPlatform publishes a regular “ Edtech Top 40 ” list of the most used edtech products in K12 schools nationwide: perhaps unsurprisingly, Google products take 8 of the top 10 spots. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. Today’s K12 educators are more digitally native than ever before.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Coursera to Charge Fees for Previously Free Courses Once hailed as a portal for free learning materials, accessible to anyone with an internet connection, Coursera announced this year plans to charge if learners want to submit assignments to be graded for certain courses.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Video, of course, enables other innovations. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples. Use of data analytics. An example? Open Curriculum.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

And it doesn't help, of course, that there is, in general, a repudiation of history within Silicon Valley itself. " I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago that interviewed Anthony Levandoski, the Uber engineer sued by Google for stealing its self-driving car technology. We already have, of course.

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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. We invite up to 1,000 students who have previously completed two or more of our free MOOCs to apply to participate in these challenges.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

He described the company’s focus as refining its process for developing Nanodegree programs, the company’s name for short-term online courses for tech professionals that mix videos with project-based assignments. EdSurge: Udacity rode the wave of hype around MOOCs, massive open online courses, when the company started back in 2011.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

In his current role, Byun is an Associate Professor in the Forbes School of Business & Technology at Ashford University, where he teaches courses in database management, programming and telecommunications. When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

” Some of these experimental sites included MOOCs and coding bootcamps. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Assessing the Travel Ban : What New Data on Overseas Recruitment Does – and Doesn’t – Tell Us.” More on certifications in the MOOC section above. ” Education in the Courts.

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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. Most people with “instructional design” in their job title are involved in converting “traditional” written curriculum or in-person teaching into an online course. Surely a lot has changed!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Opinionated Products : There’s a word for the kinds of tools and products—like say, Google search results—which adapt to a user’s behavior: opinionated. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. When Public Education Data Isn’t Really Public : The U.S.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. Augment, not replace, of course. MOOCs were going to change everything. Their products will make teachers’ work easier, faster, companies have always promised. And on and on and on.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

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. November''s son is taking courses through edX and will get an associate''s degree from Harvard. Click here to see all of them.)

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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. These are online representations of an earned skill, often through taking small credit courses aimed toward working and non-degree-seeking individuals. And students are changing.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

What lessons can be learned from the rise and pivot of MOOCs, those large-scale online courses that proponents said would disrupt higher education? At the start of the MOOC trend in 2012, the promise was that the free online courses could reach students who could not afford or get access to other forms of higher education.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 25, 2016

Now, data-driven testing is enormous and growing, which gives rise to important questions: who owns testing data? what happens to user privacy and data? The tool gathers data down to the level of a student’s individual private browsing and search history, both on school premises and elsewhere – i.e., at home.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 7, 2012

What does it mean to take control and manage your own data? Systems like Twitter and Google Apps for Edu are using and selling your data. A course Levine and Groom are involved in is DS106. We need more courses like DS106 for pre-service teachers. A lot of learning is locked up in LMS systems.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

And … it integrates complexity into a fairly traditional, linear course of study. By that, I mean that I am required to provide and follow a syllabus that lines up a course of study and learning objectives for my students and details how and when they will be assessed. I use Google Forms to construct this online assessment.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Xythos was used for collaboration and allowed students and faculty the ability to access files even before Dropbox and Google Drive. Only through listening can a CEO assess and build a plan that will set the course for the next 1,000 days. It was also licensed as the core of Blackboard’s content management system.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

isn’t simply limited to YouTube either (though it does work seamlessly there); Khan, Vimeo, and several MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) platforms work as well. Additionally, the tool connects with a person’s Google Drive account, so it’s perfect for Google Apps For Education districts around the world.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

According to Harvard University, “in Activity-Based Learning courses, students do public service, fieldwork, community-based research and internships in conjunction with in-class work. Learning expressly through online courses and related digital resources. Google Apps for Education. Google Classroom. ” (1).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Digging as hard as I could, I could not find reliable data revealing how many of them teach online. 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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Importantly, rather than thinking about non-degree credentials primarily as “alternative” credentials that are substitutes to degrees, these smaller credentials can be useful building blocks toward degrees—giving adults the option to start, stop and restart learning over the course of a career, and across a variety of educational levels.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Investors in tutoring companies this year included Warbug Pincus, Goldman Sachs, Learn Capital, Y Combinator, the Omidyar Network, Sequoia Capital, TAL Education, Tencent, Google, and of course, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. ” (Its MOOC competitor edX also announced this year that many of its courses would no longer be free.)

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It’s an intense research project that usually tops out at about 75,000 words, written over the course of four to six weeks. Of course, if you look for those education technology writers who are independent from venture capital, corporate or institutional backing, or philanthropic funding, there is pretty much only me.).

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

In fact, if you Google “rainbow starburst bracelet” and the official video from the company has been viewed a fraction of the times. As a researcher, Justin has been carrying this concept into his work with MOOCs. In reality, a course is just one node in the network of possibilities for how to make sense of the content.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

The heyday for massive open online courses was studded with hype. So much so, the New York Times even dubbed 2012 the “ Year of the MOOC.” Advocates for the courses would point a finger at the unaffordability of traditional education, promising that MOOCs could offer cheaper, more innovative alternatives.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

So we started Versal to really allow anybody to create online courses, assignments, homework assignments, and so on, and really make it as easy as it is to build a PowerPoint. You drag them in the canvas, and you build your courses or the assignment that way. Freedman: I love where you started with the criticism of the MOOCs.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Then there was the infamous anti-diversity memo distributed by Google engineer James Damore and leaked to the press this summer that charged that efforts the company (and the industry more broadly) had taken to address diversity were misguided as women are biologically ill-suited to computer science – which is, of course, totally b t.

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Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s not really “free Internet,” of course – it’s Facebook as Internet. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). ” “Aftermath of the MOOC wars: Can commercial vendors support creative higher education ? Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. Raise $146.1

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Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

They can be something everybody uses; that’s how 2012 became the year of the MOOC, and why virtual reality will no doubt be widely cited as the trend of 2016. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. By Stephen Downes, National Research Council. Now there are different ways things can be a ‘trend of the year’.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Several months ago, I started to jot down ideas about what I'd cover in my annual review of what's happened over the course of the past 12 months in the field / industry /promotion of education technology. Of course, the latter is just wishful thinking. It’s not an ed-tech story per se.

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Technology Pearson Education MOOC 67

Hack Education

MAY 25, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs are back in the headlines again. Via Edsurge : “The Second Wave of MOOC Hype Is Here, and It’s Online Degrees.” And That Has Given It Some Eye-opening Data.” ” Also from the Google blog : “More tools for homeschoolers.”

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