Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

An experimental university announced last week that its home-grown online teaching platform can now handle up to 400 students at a time via live video. Nelson says the biggest benefit of Minerva’s Forum is that it collects rich data on every interaction taking place within the platform.

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Iterating Toward Openness

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

As you may have heard, my fellow rabble-rouser George Siemens and I are doing a MOOC on open education that launches later this month on edX. Would you be willing to make a 3 – 5 minute video sharing your perspectives and experiences regarding one or more of our weekly topics? here’s what to do.

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EdTechSandyK

JULY 3, 2014

Image Used With Permission Under a Creative Commons License Late last week I was innocently checking my Twitter feed, and I saw an announcement for a MOOC called Foundations of Virtual Instruction. You can watch the video on the course info page to learn more about her.) Have you had any experiences with MOOCs? Unported License.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Sarma is familiar with large data sets and tough technical challenges—he helped develop the RFID tags that track inventories in libraries and big box stores. EdSurge: When MOOCs started a few years ago, researchers were excited to learn from the data generated from all of these online learners. That's an intentional experiment.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Students can communicate peer-to-peer and also engage instructors directly in text, voice, and video, recorded for later access or run immediately in real-time. Some of the systems also offer video editing, recording and screen downloading options. million students. The LMS market today is valued at $9.2

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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

MARCH 29, 2017

The colleges create course videos and assignments that are offered on the company’s platform for free—and students can pay for a certificate showing completion. It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. But not many professors are actually using Coursera material as the video content for on-campus courses.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Join me today, Wednesday, September 26th, for a one-hour live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar on the "true history" of the Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) with Dave Cormier, Alec Couros, Stephen Downes, Rita Kop, Inge de Waard, and Carol Yeager. The research entails the use of qualitative measures and data mining.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

MOOC – Massively Open Online Course (an online course which has video lectures, problem solving activities, texts and an online community of fellow learners). SIS – Student Information System (the software used in a school to manage data such as scores, attendance, medical issues etc.). Vlog – Video Log.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 26, 2015

Check out this new video from EDUCAUSE with four experts, including EdTechTeacher co-founder and iPad Summit Boston Keynote Speaker, Justin Reich addressing the question, “Why is measuring learning difficult?”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

He doesn’t get paid, but he helps improve the quality of courses by catching mistakes in quizzes and pointing out befuddling bits of video lectures, which can then be clarified before professors release the course to students. “I And I do enjoy giving back and trying to contribute to a community and help future students.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

In response, Coach throws up explanations, summarizes lessons, links videos and suggests further courses for the learner to check out. Today’s online courses are evolved cousins of the early MOOC, or massive open online course. Very few companies have image data. The year of the MOOC may be long over.

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Mark Smithers

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Thanks to Kate Bowles ( @KateMfD ) for sending me a link to an open Coursesites web site (free registration) that has been created for the MOOC discussion at the forthcoming Universities Australia 2014 conference. There are six questions in the discussion area; these are: What have been the most significant impacts of MOOCs?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

Video Streaming/ Flipped Classroom/eLearning Trends. From Zoom to Skype to Webinars and even live streaming on social media itself, video is perhaps the most visible and common form of technological innovation in K-12 and higher ed. Video, of course, enables other innovations. Use of data analytics. We shall see.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Also, when assessing and grading in other formats – e.g., videos, posters, various apps, etc. It is the ability to share your understanding of a concept, not the ability to make a poster or video, unless that is the specific skill you are assessing. Your ability to create a video on Twitter (skill).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. The couple is no longer with Coursera, which is now valued at $2.5 But they are not done with higher education yet.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2017

Using GPS data, a runner can track her route and pace, and then share the activity with friends. They were incredibly hardworking people, but the ones creating the most significant social impact in the world were also often too busy to finish a MOOC. In 2016, Strava users uploaded 304 million activities , logged 6.8

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

When you look at the data—and we still need better data—studies show 80 percent of the people pursuing [bootcamps and MOOC]s already have a bachelor's degree. So the innovation is not happening in undergrad? It's the same graduate degree from the same institution, and it might be a third of the cost.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

You have to use video,” says Virginia Tech’s John Boyer, who posts his geography lectures on YouTube and holds live online office hours. More Colleges Are Offering Microcredentials—And Developing Them The Way Businesses Make New Products A few years ago elite universities were frantically jumping into MOOCs.

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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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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model. Language Center.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Details like asking your students to create a video introduction to a class can have a powerful impact. Video-based introductions can help develop a community of learners more quickly than simply posting text on a discussion board. Engagement is about more than data. Quality is about much more than checklists.

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Linways Technologies

MARCH 31, 2020

This sets institutional education apart from the MOOCs, or online course delivery tools. It goes beyond classroom interactions and file sharing to analytics, reports, data-driven decision making, and maintaining the order. Using the Course Material and Video content Repository, the faculty can provide precise materials to the students.

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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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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

This spyware extracts an incredible amount of information from students, including their biometric data, audio, and video, and then runs it through proprietary algorithms designed to identify suspicious behavior that might signal cheating. We're quite literally asking students to install spyware on their machines. Unfathomable.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

Technology topics included social media, video, 3d printing, VR, internet of things, automation, and privacy. In discussion we touched on cognitive computing, “quick” (live or easily published) video (Kat’s term), video growing on mobile devices. Participants spoke to early childhood computing.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Data journalist David McCandless calculated it would take over one million plays on Spotify for a solo artist to earn the U.S. Lynda.com similarly compensates instructors for distinct video views. Today, few higher-ed institutions are able to sustain the ongoing costs associated with producing and running MOOCs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

Data from prior recessions shows that this is a clear historical pattern : after layoffs occur, firms are more likely to replace human jobs with technology. MOOC catalog site Class Central has reported a 900 percent spike in traffic , and course enrollment has surged at Coursera.

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techieMusings

MAY 19, 2016

Sophomores have the opportunity to spend a period of their day learning through a MOOC of their choosing. Their MOOC worktime is an assigned period within their school day. When students are in their MOOC course, they all report to the open learning space, as in the pictures below. Math Rotation Model. Language Center.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. Koedinger sees three main areas of learning engineering, which together give flight to the learner.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

Me personally, I don't want the future of education to be more monitored, data-mined, analyzed, predicted, molded, controlled. 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? I don't want education to look that way now, but it does.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 15, 2015

Schools are organizing databases around students that look at multiple performance indicators, and now, more than ever, learning is informed and registered through collections of data points and not just a grade. As assessment becomes more data-driven, however, it’s important that we remember what the real goal of this data should be.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. ASU GSV’s main stage is a near perfect embodiment of the Gartner Hype Cycle : To be clear, our version of the Hype Cycle doesn’t mean we think Web3, the Metaverse, AI, or VR/AR are necessarily bad investment areas. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015. million in 2019 to 18.6 million students in 2021, a 5.1

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ProfHacker

APRIL 24, 2015

Jonathan Rees has described the offering of MOOCs for credit as “weaponized” education technology,” and I’m not sure he’s wrong. And I find MOOCs pretty interesting!) That said, I expect we are going to have a lot of interesting data to interpret and argue about over the next several years!

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. Video materials were also provided to teach students how to use the downloaded applications and what to expect. Later, I found a way and connections which guided me to my current profession.

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Image from Pixabay You have probably heard of data science, Artificial Intelligence, machine learning , and cloud computing. You may also have heard of big data, The Internet of Things and Blockchain. These technologies are all beginning to play roles in our digital lives and will grow in significance in the future.

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