Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The unique and pressing needs of the ongoing global pandemic accelerated the adoption of education technology and innovations that could support urgent and evolving needs and provide on-demand and flexible learning. States without policies feature district implementation examples instead. higher education) within the state.

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Policies Guidelines MOOC Education 323

EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 2, 2014

Here is my Unit 2 reflection for the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change. Unit 2 focuses on the development of your PLN (Professional Learning Network) and becoming a "Connected Educator". For example, I enjoy using Twitter for the educational Twitter chats.

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MOOC Digital Learning Social Media Learning 33

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It has the most users of any provider of MOOCs (as the large-scale online courses are sometimes called), claiming more than 77 million learners. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. And it is the richest, with nearly three-quarters of a billion in cash in the bank, and annual revenue of about $260 million. "EdX

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Coursera MOOC Company Course 167

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

Insights that derive from dialog between K-12, higher education, and online-learning providers could well shape instructional practices for the better as students return to school, whether in a classroom or over Zoom. Instructors have also experimented with lecture formats that did away with podiums and blackboards.

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MOOC Khan Academy Learning Blackboard 190

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. That’s a far cry from five years ago, when only 5 percent of the students were finishing the MOOCs I was designing. Use the power of peer pressure.

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Course MOOC Udemy Coursera 158

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2021

We should have focused on creating excellent virtual teaching examples in high-enrollment courses, as a way of exposing most students to the most positive online learning experience. The impulse—to mimic conventional classrooms online as closely as possible—was followed earlier by MOOCs, massive online learning courses.

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Online Learning Learning MOOC Survey 200

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

Instead, MOOC providers see an opportunity in helping medical professionals keep their knowledge and skills up to date after they graduate, a field also known as continuing medical education (CME). The draw to host these courses on MOOC platforms, Butler says, is the chance to reach a wider audience. MOOCs, The New OPM?

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Course Coursera MOOC Education 116

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

So with these guidelines in mind, I’ve chosen six areas where edtech has made an impact this decade: Learning Management Systems. Learning analytics. Digital badges. Adaptive learning systems. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 88

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

A researcher, theorist, educator, Siemens is the digital learning guy. He’s credited with co-teaching the first MOOC in 2008, introduced the theory of “connectivism”—the idea that knowledge is distributed across digital networks—and spearheaded research projects about the role of data and analytics in education.

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Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

But learning online remains a hard nut to crack. Today’s online courses are evolved cousins of the early MOOC, or massive open online course. Bajaj takes the example of a machine learning (ML) course. The year of the MOOC may be long over. Evidence that it works has often been contradictory or disappointing.

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Coursera Course MOOC Company 175

Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 3, 2018

Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. Sites Where Students Can Learn Typing/Keyboarding [link]. 3 things you should know about digital literacies. Examples Of ELL Student Writing [link]. Check your time zone here ! Resources. All-Time” Best 2.0

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Resources Technology Twitter EdTech 251

Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2017

First the numbers: In the past year, we have published more than 300 articles about the shifting trends in higher ed, education technology and digital learning. Discovering MOOCs in 2012 lit a fire under me. Ray Batra: EdSurge promotes how technology can support teaching and learning, but it doesn’t do so uncritically.

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MOOC Trends Learning EdTech 68

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

Credly, for example, was acquired for $200 million in January 2022, which represented a valuation multiple of 15.1x LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. LTM revenue. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015. million in 2019 to 18.6

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EdTech Chegg Udemy Company 182

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

On Tuesday, June 12 the #DLNchat community got together to dive into how improving digital learning could help institutions pass along savings to students, and how technology might also help reduce indirect costs for college attendance. How do you think digital learning can improve college affordability?

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OER Tools MOOC Course 68

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. In Canada, for example, about two-thirds of colleges offer online degrees —and many have for years. I’ve always thought of the U.S. But lately I’ve realized my perception may be flawed by a false sense of American exceptionalism.

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Online Learning Learning Mobility Blackboard 121

Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Ask students to bring examples from the real world into the classroom.” Join the Digital Learning Network to stay up to date on all events and the latest news for highered digital learning leaders! RSVP for our next #DLNchat: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning?

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Education Data MOOC Industry 72

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Stephen Downes , senior researcher at the National Research Council of Canada and co-creator of the MOOC, began with an overview of the predictive process, saying it “isn’t magic, but it’s not mechanical either.” And he’s seen “a laundry list” of promising examples over the last few years. I don’t think that’s what’s going on here.

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Learning Analytics MOOC E-rate Trends 60

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Making Smart Decisions in a Crowded Edtech Market : EdSurge’s very own Leonard Medlock (Director, Concierge) will pry open some examples of districts working with Concierge and discuss strategies around how to articulate challenges, find and choose technology and successfully pilot selected tools. EdSurge 4:00 p.m.

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MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Without imposed schedules, proximity to peers, or physical classrooms, even the best-intentioned students never make it through a MOOC or fail to reengage with the educational app they downloaded. For example, can learners automatically be placed in a team on an online course platform?

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MOOC Learning EdTech Course 60

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

One thing I do think is going to happen out of this: We know that, for example, our grandparents who lived through the Great Depression had a completely different attitude about things like food and money than we did, because they didn’t have much food and they didn’t have much money.

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Education Policies Course Trends 134

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

What’s more, for each of these choices, there are additional decisions about which media to use (video, audio, hands-on), whether to give concrete examples, and more. Koedinger sees three main areas of learning engineering, which together give flight to the learner.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 216

EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 4, 2012

For example, students are engaged in social activities an passion based research (if they love photography, they look for photography info). a peer-driven, interest-driven, and unregulated digital media channel. Example: WeVideo for Google Drive.) Blue School is an example. Learning not limited to a class roster.

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Technology Learning Mobility Tablets 69

ProfHacker

MARCH 25, 2016

Some of this focused on learning new tools (many are now big on Twitter; today I am teaching some students about Hypothes.is for example). It helps a lot that there are three kinds of online learning opportunities participants can look forward to: Digital Pedagogy Lab’s online courses (details here). Why-Notness.

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MOOC Twitter Online Learning Conference 40

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2021

Even though the cost of delivering online courses was then far less than on campus, we worried that if colleges set a lower price for remote instruction, students and their families might get the wrong impression, with lower prices signaling that digital learning was less valuable.

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MOOC Coursera Survey Study 204

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. 2012, you will recall, was “ the year of the MOOC.”) ” MOOCs looked – for a short while, at least – like they were going to pivot to become LMSes. Instead, they’ve re-branded as job training sites.

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In fact, if we pull back from the immediate horrors of this moment, the move to online learning has actually been underway since around 2010, when universities and private entrepreneurs first began to experiment with Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs.

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MOOC Education Coursera Course 185

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

And in the past ten years these colleges have been active in offering so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, which are free or low-cost courses, usually for no official credit. Cornell, for example, lists about 90 in such fields as hospitality, human resources and engineering.

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MOOC Coursera Industry Course 175

Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

Read a step by step approach from an instructor with lots of examples here. I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Find out more about mission minded learning in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom.

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Digital Badges MOOC Exercises Digital Learning 326

Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2017

But if you ask Mark Brown, a professor and director of the National Institute for Digital Learning at Dublin City University in Ireland, problems such as falling for hype around new technology is an absolute moral dilemma. An example he points to is the way his university approaches MOOCs. He’s caved in before. “I

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Outcomes 133

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

Here’s the difference: Today 2U offers the most heavily certified digital program. An example would be our recent announcement with the University of Southern Calif., As you think about the future of digital education, where do you see microcredentials fitting in? It’s not your grandfather's version of online ed.

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Kaplan Company Coursera Course 75

Digital Promise

JANUARY 11, 2017

The latest piece of news on MOOCs — massive online open courses — suggests that they may not yet be the great democratizer of education that they were envisioned to be. 12, shows that, generally, MOOCs have not reached such a demographically broad audience. The Futures of MOOCs. So do MOOCs have any transformative power?

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MOOC Study Online Learning Education 120

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Candidate VoiceThread for Digital Education - Kelli Stair- teacher/ writer An Example STEAM and Maker-Education Curriculum: From Puppets to Robots - Jackie Gerstein, Ed.D. Torrey Trust, Ph.D.

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STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

David Stoloff, Ph.D.

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Conference Education Case Study Mobility 4

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

In part, this adopts a model some MIT professors already use, called a Small Private Online Course, or SPOC —a customized adaption of the Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs, that sparked wide attention a decade ago. Faculty from these fields would work together to manage and teach the curriculum.”

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Course MOOC Trends Outcomes 218

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). Just a few weeks after Daphne Koller ’s announcement she was leaving the MOOC startup she co-founded, Coursera unveiled “ Coursera for Business ” this week, marking its pivot from “democratizing higher ed” to “ training corporate employees.”

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Education Coursera Elsevier MOOC 52

Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

Those of us who work in education technology have to grapple with this question, I’d argue, because Trump University is emblematic of the kinds of promises we hear all the time about “disruptive innovation” that’ll come in the form of digital learning technologies. (In What are MOOCs, for example?

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Conference Course MOOC Technology 63

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

” Here, via Edsurge , is a great example of how, instead of investing in public infrastructure, schools wield ed-tech to outsource and privatize key resources for students and communities. Via The New York Times : “ Texas Students Will Now Learn That Slavery Was ‘Central’ to the Civil War.”

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Education LMS Robotics E-rate 52