Wired Campus

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Some of the biggest MOOC producers, including Daphne Koller’s Coursera, may have figured out how to get employers to accept free online courses as credentials: Get big-name companies to help design them. ” Coursera is hardly the first MOOC provider to bring in companies to help design its online courses.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. As for MOOCs, in 2012, the elites in higher education discovered online learning, which many others felt they had already invented and improved over the previous 15 years. OER and open books. Digital badges.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

When there’s a need for information or new skills, employees today are increasingly turning to instantly accessible sources such as search engines and online course libraries available on their mobile devices. employers spent nearly $71 billion on training in 2016—a figure that was flat compared to 2015.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

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. That’s the case for Davis, who for several years was a producer of video classes for HarvardX, Harvard’s MOOC production wing. “I

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

Likewise, employer spending on training—which often includes university-provided offerings— tends to decline in recessions. MOOC catalog site Class Central has reported a 900 percent spike in traffic , and course enrollment has surged at Coursera.

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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

But student-teachers report that their tech training focuses only on simple management tools. I have had the privilege of meeting with pre-service educators in both undergraduate programs and Master’s In Teaching programs…mostly here in the State of Washington. MindShift. Photo Credit: uoeducation via Compfight cc.

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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. Designing online learning experiences is essential to training employees, mobilizing customers, serving students, building marketing channels, and sustaining business models.

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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. It’s the same thing when you go to a meeting and some guy reads his PowerPoint. Of course.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The first ghost that Ebenezer Scrooge meets in “A Christmas Carol” is the spirit of his business partner, Jacob Marley. Called Crypto, Culture, & Society , the group organizes courses that bring knowledge from the arts, humanities and social sciences into conversations about the Web3 world being dreamed into reality.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

As challenge-based learning grows in popularity, let’s think of ways that we can use Google Classroom to allow students and teachers to, “sign-up,” for optional challenges by joining a Google Classroom Class designed to detail the challenge, provide resources, and allow the user to submit their evidence for meeting the challenge.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training. Today, students frequently work in digital environments to read course materials, take tests and complete assignments. Simon argued that you would describe the process as “outrageous.” “If As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

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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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Digital Promise

JANUARY 12, 2015

The school has a lot of students like Edwin, and it looks for ways to meet them where they are by breaking down any psychological distance they might face due to a lack of confidence in their academic abilities. ” This is no accident.

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Wired Campus

MARCH 10, 2015

Yale University is creating a master’s program that will hold many courses online, continuing the Ivy League institution’s foray into “blended” learning. The online program, to be offered by the Yale School of Medicine, would aim to replicate its residential program for training physicians’ assistants.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. He quickly began supplementing his education with online courses from Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. verified certificates from Coursera and completed 11 social entrepreneurship courses from +Acumen. complete multiple MOOCs.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 24, 2019

First is the return of Dr. Steve Albrecht with " Coaching Skills for Library Managers and Supervisors: Getting Better Performance and Behavior From Your Employees One Meeting at a Time " on February 12th. The active shooter training was fantastic!" We have two new Library 2.0 Webinars coming up in February.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Integrated Planning & Advising for Student Success : As technology steps in to automate traditional academic advising duties like helping students register for courses, a new approach to student success and planning has stepped in: iPASS (Integrated Planning & Advising for Student Success). 2:00 p.m.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

Although we have made incredible strides in expanding access to education over the course of the past century, that access has always been unevenly distributed as are the conflicts and crises that undermine education systems and educational justice everywhere. Like a MOOC, but in the school gym. It failed on both accounts.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 10, 2012

I began teaching in non-structured environments without any training until years later. Now I train teachers online and face to face and get to see the incredible ways they are transforming their students’ lives. It is basically a MOOC (Massive Open Online Course). What inspires you most about learning?

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

It gives lots of way to facilitate activities at a PTA meeting, at a school board meeting or a local chamber of commerce,” said Keith Kruger, CEO of CoSN. We’re hoping you don’t see the report as something you read once and file away, but that you start using it to really start stimulating conversation.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

NovoEd traces its roots to Stanford University, where engineering professor Amin Saberi and Farnaz Ronaghi, then a PhD student, launched their first online course in 2012. In those days the platform was called Venture Lab, and 78,000 students from 150 countries signed up for its first course, which was on technology entrepreneurship.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Samantha Adams Becker taught the first online course ever to take place in Facebook. Come curious, and leave inspired to meet the future head on. She will explore emerging technology uptake—especially digital communication formats—in various education sectors including academic and research libraries.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

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. And in an age in which medicines can be personalized to one’s genetic code, technology can help teachers meet the unique needs of every child.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

link] Moebius Noodles : New open online course for parents + teachers: Multiplication inspired by algebra and calculus, starting April. To meet these challenges, educators must teach digital citizenship, an essential digital age skill that students need to become safe, responsible and respectful participants in a digital world.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

On the other hand, MOOCs and other ambitious projects that have caught the popular imagination have had the side effect of reinforcing the misimpression that education’s wicked problems can be addressed with simple solutions.” The group plans to talk with other members about the series at its upcoming meeting in early May.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Being an educational technology trainer and an educator for more than a decade, I have had a fair share of training and professional development sessions both on giving and receiving end. Recently, I found myself sitting in a conference room along with 200+ educators for one day workshop.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

Plus, the best kind of learning is when we meet the unexpected. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Chances are their other teachers will have the same old syllabus. Ideas & Resources. Gamify your syllabus!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Most graduating seniors attend the “other 87 percent ” of colleges — trade schools, public and private two-year and four-year colleges, large and small colleges, for-profit colleges, and colleges with massive open online courses (MOOCs) and blended learning.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The district failed to meet its burden of proof and interpreted a state law in a way that is ‘offensive to fundamental rights of free speech,’ the judge said.” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.”

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). From the Coursera blog : “Announcing ‘ AI for Everyone ’: a new course from deeplearning.ai ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Meet the New Mega-University.” More robot news up in the MOOC section above.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 29, 2017

Last week I had the honor of addressing a European Union higher education meeting in Malta. MOOCs… ah, this is fascinating. Once more I saw how the MOOC hype crash is limited to the United States. Presenter after presenter showed MOOC projects under way. Similarities were also there, of course.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The news literacy initiative is based in the Stanford History Education Group that Wineburg founded in 2002 to train teachers how to use primary sources and help students critically evaluate historical claims. My students are all about social media.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOC hype deja vu.). Via LA School Report : “LAUSD credit recovery vendor finds strong demand for online makeup courses nationwide.” Via Campus Technology: “ CUNY to Train, Hire 2,000 Students in Free Coding Bootcamps.” It lives.).

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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Career Training Groups Encouraged by Trump Pick for CTE Job.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The Business of Job Training. ” Tune into my newsletter tomorrow when I blast a curriculum that offers no social sciences or humanities courses.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Via The New York Times : New York governor “ Cuomo to Give Colleges $7 Million for Courses in Prisons.” ” Testing, Testing… The Chronicle of Higher Education reads “New Venture Will Offer Free Courses That Students Can Take for College Credit.” The Business of Job Training.

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