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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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

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. Open Curriculum. ’, Dustin Swanger, Ed.D explained how faculty is changing.

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Perry Hewitt

JULY 3, 2015

What does the White House’s new photography policy tell us about the opportunity for brand building? The first few years of widespread access to MOOCs have created a data trove for researchers. The first one: MOOC students are diverse, but trend toward autodidacts. What’s the digital talent gap in marketing today?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

Still, he says the program is going well, and is just one of the university’s efforts at what he called “open-scale courseware,” the university’s attempt to rebrand a concept that was once known as MOOCs, or massive open online courses. He says ASU has no plans to create a MicroBachelors, however.

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Doug Levin

MAY 12, 2015

I don’t fret much at all over some of what Clark raises: the acceptance and/or lack of broader cheer-leading for Wikipedia, MOOCs, or Khan Academy as success stories. K-12 context, individual teacher’s choices about instructional materials are constrained by district and state policy anyway.

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Hack Education

JULY 7, 2017

.” Lots, lots more about Betsy DeVos’ policies in the student loan and for-profit higher ed sections below. Via Politico : “The American Action Forum , a right-leaning public policy group, is recommending that DeVos consider gutting the federal student aid pilot programs created under the Higher Education Act.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Tracy Mitrano , an attorney who used to be the director information technology policy at Cornell University , holds an opinion on the issue that’s common among academics. Kentaro Toyama , another professor at the University of Michigan, thinks that large companies are “already eroding” net neutrality even under the current policy. “I

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2021

“They want to serve in their own locales, but their markets need to go farther,” says Holly Zanville, a research professor and co-director of the Program on Skills, Credentials, and Workforce Policy at George Washington University who recently published a commissioned report about Unmudl.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

In a report, the agency cited constrained revenue growth in tuition and uncertainty in federal policy. One early version of this new kind of partnership was used to build and deliver Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) through alliances like Coursera and edX.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Charisse Taylor , senior director of policy and implementation at NYC Department of Education, will share resources, templates and other activities aimed at helping educators create new CS programs that are “diverse by design.” When Public Education Data Isn’t Really Public : The U.S. EdSurge 9:30 a.m.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

I talk a lot about the problems of industry when it comes to ed-tech — how venture capital and venture philanthropy have enormous influence on shaping the direction of education policy. But we should recognize too that the call, if you will, is also coming from inside the house. Unfathomable. Impenetrable. Incomprehensible. Inexplicable.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Wicked problem” is a technical term initially proposed in the context of public policy in the late 1970s. 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? And that's important.

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Education Learning Facebook Accessibility 136

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

A significant number of students are already blending their experience across online and offline channels—and numerous data points speak to the evolving value of blending online delivery with physical presence, as suggested by Amazon. Online education has reached a tipping point where almost 30 percent of all students in U.S.

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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. Another is the rise of the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) or online instructional platforms like edX, Coursera, or Udacity. And students are changing.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

MOOCs, technology infusion projects, online masters or pathways to credit, research. It's difficult to assess overall efficacy when data is not transparent. Please see specifics on my re-use policy in the right-hand column of my blog before re-posting/re-using any of my blog content. Student privacy also has to be protected.

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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

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work? These proctoring tools gather and analyze far more data than just a student's words, than their responses on an exam. Some track location data, pinpointing where the student is working.

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Robotics Software Company ProctorU 83

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. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. Workshop needs measurable goals, follow-up, and results based on data.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

First, the role that corporations and philanthropists play in shaping education policy is not new. Many companies – and certainly these two in particular – also have a long history of data collection and data analysis. MOOCs were going to change everything. They have been at this a long, long time.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

.” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. How accurate is her data? (I’d Philanthropy today shapes policy. No contemporary billionaire has shaped the policy and the discourse in education quite like Bill Gates.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Mara Cabrera, SLIS Graduate Student, Research Assistant Taming the Quantitative Data Monster with LibPAS: What? : Visible Thinking in Library Instruction - Erika Behling, Library Faculty Reality & Virtuality: Research expectations, responsibilities, and technologies in the dissemination phase of a 4-year study.

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Libraries Conference eBook Mobility 64

Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

The challenges and the results and the arguments (for and against) and the innovative superintendent boasting in The New York Times without any data to substantiate his claims — it all sounds so incredibly familiar. Like a MOOC, but in the school gym. But that here we are again.

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Education Report Khan Academy Examples 140

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Data from market analyst firms CB Insights and Pricewaterhouse Coopers show that total funding across all sectors increased in 2018 despite falling deal volume. Once upon a time, she notes, “MOOCs were supposed to displace higher education. Now many MOOCs are embedded within these institutions. investment activity.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

While the data set isn’t very deep here, the impact of formal academia on all three of them is what you’d guess it might be. While short on experts, rules, and policies, a home has agility and “scale” that a school necessarily lacks. I can see that happening with school. Adaptive learning apps. Dosomething.org.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Recently, Coursera announced a modular MOOC-based bachelor’s degree with the University of North Texas, and edX is experimenting with “ MicroBachelors ” programs as pathways to degrees. It is an exciting road ahead.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Our current obsession with educational data has its roots in very similar attempts: to quantify. Zombie ideas, according to Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman are “beliefs about policy that have been repeatedly refuted with evidence and analysis but refuse to die.” You invoke history, sure.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

But the trick is to be willing to alter the nuances of the thesis as new data arise. To their credit, both of the leading commercial MOOCs—Udacity and Coursera—have undertaken significant pivots to their initially flawed business models. Time will tell whether these changes were too little, too late.

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Education Coursera Policies MOOC 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 16, 2013

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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Libraries Conference MOOC E-rate 51

Wired Campus

MARCH 13, 2015

Big data is coming to education, if it’s not here already. Some 32 national organizations unveiled a statement of “Student Data Principles” during the conference, outlining a guiding philosophy that included a commitment to collecting only the minimum amount of information needed to help students succeed. Mitchell L.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2017

Now, also, as a large research institution, we've been collecting data about our students, really for decades and we have massive amounts of digital data. A few years ago, there was all this attention to MOOCs, and Michigan was a leader in that. Where do you see MOOCs fitting in now? You're trained as a physician.

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MOOC Data Training Learning Analytics 60

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Data Insecurity. Beyond the MOOC. The Compulsion for Data. School and “Skills” MOOCS, Outsourcing, and Online Education. Data and Privacy. MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs. Data vs Privacy. Education Data and Learning Analytics. The “New Economy” Credentialing. Inequality.

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Technology MOOC Trends Khan Academy 58

Hack Education

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “Lawyers and Title IX practitioners have identified potential conflicts between the Trump administration ’s new proposed regulations on the gender discrimination law and state policy.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). It’s like the MOOC crap all over again.

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MOOC Education Elsevier Report 78

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Via Edsurge : “Experts Look Into the Crystal Ball of the Next Administration’s Ed Policy.” 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

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

.” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp. Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Via Inside Higher Ed : “Humans, the Latest MOOC Feature.” Data, Privacy, and Surveillance. The states in question: Texas and Nevada. million total.

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Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

The US Department of Education announced it was launching “a pilot to test rigorously the effectiveness of more flexible loan counseling policies on federal student loan borrowers.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Remember when the World Economic Forum was super-into MOOCs?

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Education MOOC Facebook Company 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

One of the big stories this week: the US Department of Education ’s announcement about which “non-traditional providers” ( MOOCs , coding bootcamps ) will be eligible for financial aid as part of its EQUIP experiment. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Politics.

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MOOC Education Coursera Company 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Here’s what Manuela Ekowo, policy analyst with the Education Policy program at New America, had to say. radio and televisions in the early 20th century and online learning and MOOCs via the Internet in the early 21st century.) Do they opens the door for companies to take the lead on how students learn and how their data is used?

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