Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The premise back then was that classes would make high-quality online education accessible for all—and for free. And popular providers like Coursera and edX are increasingly partnering with colleges and universities to offer MOOC-based degrees online. Today, many MOOC providers now charge a fee.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Despite the failure of AllLearn, in 2014, Levin was named the CEO of Coursera. AllLearn wasn't the only online education failure of the early 2000s, of course. Columbia University invested $30 million into its own online learning initiative, Fathom, that opened in 2000 and closed in 2003. Coursera founder Daphne Koller.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

We see that people often purchase on-demand courses on platforms like Udemy or Teachable, but only a quarter of those who purchase log in to watch the first video. We’ve also hosted “office hours” where students have a chance to interact via video conference with the subject matter expert featured in the course.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Massive open online course providers gained momentum and attention by claiming to offer a free alternative to traditional degrees. But these massive open online courses still continue to shape the way people around the world learn and access education. Here’s what happened, and what he learned.

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 3, 2014

The course is aimed at learning about K-12 online instruction, which I''m interested in knowing more about. The course is offered through Coursera , a known online learning platform which I have heard and read good things about. Perfect for summer learning, especially since I work through the summer.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

So despite talk by corporate leaders about a “war for talent,” and complaints about a lack of skilled workers and the challenge of retaining top talent, employers are actually spending less, on average, on learning and development for their employees. You get an introduction to a topic, apply it, do a short video or course, then apply that.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

Ahearn, an online learning manager for +Acumen, shares eight lessons learned about the field with a starter kit of what every hopeful instructional designer should know. You have to use video,” says Virginia Tech’s John Boyer, who posts his geography lectures on YouTube and holds live online office hours.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

But half of that went to just six companies, including the celebrity tutorial provider MasterClass, the online learning platform Udemy and the school and college review site Niche. The ed-tech company BrainPOP produces short animated videos that explain complex ideas to students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

“If you run out-of-school centers you still need these kinds of systems to make the learning efficient.” schools is live video applications. Chen says these video platforms are extremely popular in China because parents are willing to pay triple the cost for live interaction over pre-recorded videos.

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NeverEndingSearch

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

For many of us, the go-to platform for learning and sharing is video. We learn from TED Talks, the Khan Academy, as well as the growing number of videos we ourselves create for flipped. Why is it valuable to be able to play with video in a in-text way? To learn about the art of propaganda and selling.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

You worked in a traditional university and then moved to Ashford—what attracted you to online learning? When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. Dr. Jongbok Byun How does online learning benefit students?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2020

Online learning—often touted as an up-and-coming way of delivering education—took its place on the world stage as the de facto model, regardless of how prepared students, employees and educators were for the experience. Virtual learning is here to stay, and focus is turning to engagement and efficacy.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 9, 2013

Next came the institutional versions, the xMOOCs, which borrowed the 'free at the point of delivery' open and online model but emphasised formal assessment and accreditation (which is clearly where the money is). Quasi versions of open online learning already existed, such as the incredibly popular video based Khan Academy content.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Previously, students were confined to learning in the classroom or reading a textbook. Nowadays there are so many online learning courses available from places like Khan Academy or Coursera. Crowdfunding, however, is providing other options, such as LiveEdu to introduce new learning methods.

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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

APRIL 3, 2020

The executive education market was already facing heightened competition and digital disruption: these pressures will accelerate in the current environment, with even more interest among employers in shorter-form offerings and online delivery.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

And students in a musicology course at Virginia Tech were assigned to create TikTok videos. Cengage, for example, is providing free subscriptions to its online textbooks, and says it has seen a 55 percent increase in the number of students who have signed up for one.

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Bryan Alexander

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. Alumni were worried that large pools of enrolled online students would dilute brands that had been carefully built over a hundred years.(1202). Kindle location 1093).

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

In this post I’ll share my notes along with the complete video recording. I asked how open learning works for non-professionals, citing research showing many MOOC users are already professionals and/or academics. But now a wider range of population participate in online learning, both as students and teachers.

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Wired Campus

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When students enroll in MOOCs, they almost always watch a series of video lectures. But just watching videos — without also engaging interactively — is an ineffective way to learn, according to a study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. All of the students were assigned 11 weekly quizzes and a final exam.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

Notes from the Discussion We no longer have to go to school if we want to learn. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. More info on Harvard online degree programs and certificates. Students can graduate from high school with dual credit then get the rest of their college experience entirely online.

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myViewBoard

JULY 26, 2020

While many are treating their time at home as a “stay-cation,” parents of children suddenly on a long-term vacation as well as adults who are seeking to upgrade their skills are turning to online education, including video. Video offers numerous benefits in education. Keep It Short.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Writing about online learning in higher education over the last several years, I often noted the steady growth of remote learning nationwide against the sluggish adoption of digital instruction among most Ivy League colleges. Virtual instruction continues to whiz across the country, racing recently with unprecedented gains.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Yet, the fundamental problem with this line of questioning is that it inaccurately conflates access to online learning content with access to a course experience. The average completion rate for MOOCs (including the ones I design) hovers between 5-15 percent. Isn’t this a sign that the form has failed?

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Learning with 'e's

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

The C-MOOC or Connectivist Massive Open Online Course was a free at the point of delivery online learning experience with no limits to the numbers who participated, and where 'students' could choose how, where and when they learnt. I would argue that these are 'punk' educators, whether they realise it or not.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

” Via Politico : “ Trump steps up fight to keep Trump University deposition videos secret.” Headline changed from “ Coursera ’s Update Will Eliminate Hundreds of Courses” to “Coursera’s Update Will Migrate Hundreds of Courses to a New Platform.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

A single mom in middle America could learn to code from Google instructor. Unless we carefully examine where we put the paywalls and how we cultivate diverse student bodies in our online learning experiences, we risk transposing the same patterns of inequity that have plagued in-person education into our digital classrooms.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Tagged on: March 6, 2017 Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era | Financial Times → More than 30 per cent of all content on Coursera is now related to business and big-name business schools, which were initially reluctant and feared cannibalisation of their courses. Powered by Pinboard.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

I missed this news earlier in April, via Class Central : financial aid applications for Coursera take at least 15 days. ” Via Business Insider : “ Surveillance videos show police officer allegedly abusing high school students.” Via The Outline : “ Machine learning is racist because the internet is racist.”

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Hack Education

JULY 27, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Edsurge : “ Coursera ’s First Ivy League Degree: An Online Master’s From the University of Pennsylvania.” ” ( Not mentioned : Penn was one of the very first investors in Coursera.).

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

” Via The New York Times : “ Penn State Student’s Dying Hours Play Out in Courtroom Video.” ” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Big HR news about Coursera in the HR section below. Coursera has a new CEO: Jeff Maggioncalda. ” From the HR Department.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It was probably Sal Khan’s 2011 TED Talk “Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education” and the flurry of media he received over the course of the following year or so that introduced the idea of the “flipped classroom” to most people. Why are video-taped lectures so “revolutionary” if lectures themselves are supposedly not? (As

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “Should Online Courses Go Through ‘Beta Testing’?” ” The provider in question is Coursera , which has raised some $146.1 ” “What’s the bottom line on online preschool ? ” asks Edsurge. ” Yuck.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. All three – Udacity, Coursera, and edX – rolled out new certificate programs. .

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” For those keeping track of how ed-tech is intertwined in all this, here’s a list of Yuri Milner ’s education investments : 17zuoye, Remind, Coursera, Clever, Codecademy, ClassDojo, and General Assembly. ” Via Education Week : “For Online Schools , Unique Challenges in Serving Transgender Students.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” An op-ed in Forbes by University Ventures’ Ryan Craig : “Make Online Education Great (For The First Time).” ” Via The Financial Times : “ Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era.”

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Hack Education

JUNE 22, 2018

” Via the Journal Sentinel : “More than 300 Kettle Moraine parents sign petition against online learning platform.” ” Also via Class Central : “ Coursera Lets Instructors A/B Test Their Courses, Experiments With Automated Coaching.” ” More in The Hechinger Report.

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