Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 30, 2018

I am excited to announce that after a year collaborating with INTEF (Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y de Formación del Profesorado) and the Ministry of Education and Culture in Spain, The Goal Minded Teacher: Challenges to Transform Student Learning ( #EduGoalsMOOC ) free open online course will launch on February 13, 2018.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

Much like how social media giants Facebook and Twitter are utilizing our digital footprints to better understand consumer behavior, teachers are also turning to data analytics to learn more about their students. MOOCS (massive online open courses) are different from virtual classes, and are usually offered by colleges and universities.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Notes from MOOCs for Professional Development Presentation at TCEA 2015 Dr. Kay Abernathy, Lamar University [link] Lamar University sponsored the MOOC on Social Media Communication Tools for Educators which Dr. Abernathy facilitated. You can build up to five MOOCs for free on this platform. link] What is a MOOC?

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Mark Smithers

MARCH 12, 2013

This morning Richard Grusin posted a series of twenty tweets presenting a highly critical and thought provoking view of MOOCs. MOOCs are the bastard children of 1980s cyber-utopianism and post-1945 economic neoliberalism. MOOCs are a 21st century manifestation of cyberspace’s revolutionary ideology of information freedom.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

But it also emerged from what he calls a “dark time” at his university, when budget cuts seemed certain to reduce the number of professors in his department, thus restricting the courses it could offer. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says. We’ve had a lot of budget issues,” he says. “It

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2018

Teachers can engage in a meaningful way by joining a book study massive online open course, on books such as The Innovator’s Mindset , Learner-Centered Innovation and Empower: What Happens When Students Own Their Learning.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

These are questions that I have addressed in my book, “ The Innovator’s Mindset ”, and will continue to dig deeper into with the second “ Innovator’s Mindset Massive Open Online Course ” that will be starting again on February 27, 2017. Sign up for the course (also listed below). Join the Facebook group. Join #IMMOOC!

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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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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 2, 2014

Here is my Unit 2 reflection for the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change. I enjoy using Facebook because it allows me to easily connect with other educators from my school and community. I also think that by connecting with my peers through Facebook , we have developed more personal connections as well.

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 18, 2014

Unit 5 of the Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed focused on Digital Citizenship. Facebook might have some creepers and inappropriate pictures, block it. Websites like Youtube, and Social Networks like Facebook and Twitter can be used for learning, if used and taught appropriately. Coach Digital Learning mooc MOOC-Ed'

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2022

The academy is intended to build on Coursera’s business offerings by adding entry-level certificates from Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—and IBM, as well as altering the user experience for its certificates to better show how they lead to jobs. Entry-level industry certificates are receiving a lot of attention these days.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

Asynchronous learning generally uses technology that enables students to access course materials on their own. This information, of course, has been gathered asynchronously by dozens (possibly thousands) of individuals at different times using different strategies all to achieve the same purpose. Introductions.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

I enrolled in my first online course in 1998—an awful Frankenstein of assignments and web-based textbook chapters—and never finished it. Of course these recent corrections aren’t unique to the education market. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 Duolingo (NASDAQ: DUOL) is down 42.0

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

One of the main issues I see is that technology, in many programs, is a separate course and is not integrated into each of the subject/classes that a pre-service educator takes. How to handle a situation in which a parents sends you a DM on Facebook about their child (yes they can…yes it happens). I’m going to guess not.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

They envision an ecosystem where learners buy access to courses without enrolling in colleges; where teachers profit directly from their teaching; where students track progress on ever-lengthening credential chains; and where people who invest in the right tokens gather in learning groups to explore topics of mutual interest.

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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

JUNE 28, 2017

Of course the irony is that all the people who are really good at this are the video game designers. Of course, with the book’s title, “Teaching Naked,” you’re talking about getting technology out of the classroom. Of course. These MOOCs are free. And who does best at MOOCs? First, people don’t multi-task.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2013

You could see where we might place formal learning using a VLE, or where students might meet to chat using Facebook, for example. With the increasing popularity of such movements as the Flipped Classroom , and Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs), other more radical formal learning space configurations are taking place.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 7, 2013

My own father, now 84 years old, started a Facebook account so he could keep in touch with distant relatives in such places as New Zealand and Australia. Many of us regularly communicate with multiple Twitter and Facebook friends and acquaintances instantaneously even though they may be in another country. The stories go on and on.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Some approaches to these problems may be policy-related, like funding or charter schools versus public schools, but it sounds like some of them are related to course design, or are technology-related? If you think of Facebook … I work with Facebook one-on-one, Facebook is in front of me and on the screen, I'm working on it.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 23, 2015

For students taking courses online, the endless distractions of the Internet can be a hindrance to success. That’s the takeaway from a new study, which found that limiting distractions can help students perform better and also improve course completion. Students were surveyed both before and after the course.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Let’s Chat.Bots in Higher Education : What if all of your college questions could be answered by sending a text or Facebook message? Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. Higher Ed 12:30 p.m. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes? 2:00 p.m.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

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.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Think Facebook.

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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.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Teachers, of course, know how to shift this physical setting — move the chairs around, for example. If, as promised, these machines could allow students to move through course materials at their own pace without teacher supervision, there had to be — had to be — some mechanism to prevent deceptive behavior.

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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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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

” This happens all the time, of course, and not just at “business of education” conferences. ” I heard someone from Facebook relay the ol’ “founded in a Harvard dorm room” tale and then contend that “education is at our core.

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Wired Campus

AUGUST 6, 2015

George Siemens is a key innovator in higher education, having coined the term “MOOC” and worked to study the effectiveness of online learning. It has given us Facebook and Silicon Valley and the drivers of U.S. Universities are exceptional at innovating and changing,” he argued. has,” he said. “It

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 27, 2015

The Spring Summit has been inspired by and orchestrated in partnership with Library 2.0 founding sponsor, the San Jose State University School of Information ( [link] ).

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 7, 2012

A course Levine and Groom are involved in is DS106. We are used to staying in our classrooms Teachers share their personal lives on Facebook; we need to encourage them to share professionally as well. We need more courses like DS106 for pre-service teachers. They are gaining tremendously from others who share.

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Mistakengoal.com

JULY 21, 2014

We’ve worried whether Google is making us stupid and we’ve often worried if Facebook is demeaning the value and meaning of friendship. Faculty wonder if their jobs are being increasingly outsourced to MOOCs and learning analytics funded by the Gates Foundation.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 10, 2012

The Reform Symposium is a free online global conference that takes place over the course of 3 days and focuses on ways to transform education. More importantly they get to reflect upon these goals on Twitter, Facebook, or on their blogs and receive the support of many educators also accomplishing these goals.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

I used distance education courses to complete a Masters degree and soon was involved in distance education delivery for a local community college. Now of course access means time and place shifting for distance education students who mostly live in large cities. Terry: Of course the proliferation of web 2.0

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Fractus Learning

MAY 19, 2016

While educators and learners in classroom-based courses have already discovered the benefits of using engagement as a part of education, the power of online is yet to be fully realized. This could happen to your online program: Students Suing School Over Online Courses. – Rita-Marie Conrad, J.

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EdTechTeacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

His graduate and undergraduate courses help current and future educators understand how to use and take advantage of the educational potential offered by the tools of connectivity. One day, Alec says that he tweeted out that he was thinking of starting a MOOC. Within a short time, he had over 2000 participants from 75 countries.

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. Other highlights of the last twenty years are the growth of open education, open courses, connected, social and rhizomatic learning. But they should not be expected to design and run the course themselves.

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Mark Smithers

AUGUST 24, 2015

In June of this year it was twenty years since I set up my first web server for delivering e-learning courses. Other highlights of the last twenty years are the growth of open education, open courses, connected, social and rhizomatic learning. But they should not be expected to design and run the course themselves.

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