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. a far smaller number grant degrees online. I’ve always thought of the U.S. While here in the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Has the MOOC revolution come and gone? Or will the principles of the MOOC movement continue to influence higher ed? On Tuesday, April 10 the #DLNchat community got together to discuss and debate: How Have MOOCs Impacted Approaches to Student Learning? How many MOOCs have you signed up for and how many have you taken?”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Large-scale online courses called MOOCs can get millions of registered users over time. But one online learning pioneer, Stephen Downes, says that these free resources are not living up to their full potential to help students and professors. Downes has a special relationship to MOOCs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Marie Cini is the president of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Could the rise in MOOC-based and other certificates affect how traditional college degree paths are designed? What role should employers have in the design or execution of digital learning opportunities? Not only are MOOCs designed to be free, they offer opportunity to students to explore the topic before they invest and commit.”

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

The department is hiring for more than a dozen new designer, developer and strategy jobs, including for an associate director for media technology and innovation. We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

MOOCs, shorthand for massive open online courses, have been widely critiqued for their miniscule completion rates. Industry reports and instructional designers alike typically report that only between 5 to 15 percent of students who start free open online courses end up earning a certificate. Use the power of peer pressure.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2020

Many K-12 schools this week have cancelled in-person classes and announced a shift to online teaching. But at least one online-learning expert thinks that's a bad decision, especially for vulnerable students. A growing body of evidence suggests that online learning works least well for our most vulnerable learners.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. Downsides of Openness?

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

One source for insights on how to proceed is the cross-pollination that takes place when educators working in separate spheres learn from one another. The success of Khan Academy videos (almost all of which are under 10 minutes) served as a template for creating cutting-edge online-learning experiences, including massive open online courses.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Being one of the first, and largest, online learning platforms in the world, Coursera has gained some insights from its 124 million-strong user base about what it really takes to help people succeed in its digital classes. She’s now completing an online MBA from Western Governors University (WGU).

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

The moral of that tale, he adds, is there is probably no easy, silver-bullet questionnaire that can be asked at the beginning of any online course to improve completion, as some learning scientists had hoped. Considering Context But that doesn’t mean Reich has given up on behavioral interventions in online learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2020

education technology company in 2020. Coursera, which provides online courses to higher-ed institutions, businesses and government agencies, has raised $130 million in a Series F round led by NEA. We are seeing an openness to collaboration to online learning that we haven’t seen before,” says Maggioncalda.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

We know that education technology is a swiftly growing field. Here we are talking about virtual campus management solutions or online learning management solutions that can essentially digitize the teaching-learning. Responsive Learning/Mobile Application. It’s not an instructor-focused show.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2021

“Even though we do not market our solutions to these institutions, this negative media attention may nevertheless add to the skepticism about online higher education generally, including our solutions,” the filing stated. In terms of sheer numbers, Coursera has raced ahead of the pack.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Can online learning and digital tools help learners save money? 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.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

What can we expect in 2016 from the intersection of technology and education? I’m building on previous posts about trends in technology and educational contexts , plus my FTTE report, naturally. Educational technology trends. There’s now a movement to teach humanities seminars online.

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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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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.”) Are any education technologies, for that matter? platforms are digital infrastructures that enable two or more groups to interact. One might ask, I suppose, if LMSes are platforms.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

Chip Paucek, CEO and co-founder of 2U “When we think about the trajectory of a learner, from college to a masters program to a MOOC or to a bootcamp, there is a lot of opportunity for universities to play a role across that spectrum and reinvent themselves,” Paucek tells EdSurge in an interview. “If

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

But another big takeaway from this experience has been that learning innovation isn’t about the technology. I remember I used to go around, and I would give a presentation about the importance of online learning. There’s some shared information across them, but we have multiple FAQs going, we have lots of advice.

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2017

Kim, Researcch Scientist in the Learning Systems Lab, MIT What is your mission? Kim: Transform teaching & learning at MIT around the globe through the use of digital technology. MOOCs, technology infusion projects, online masters or pathways to credit, research. Not trying to sell an approach.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2018

Lindsey Downes reminded us to, “Bring questions and encourage discussions about emerging technologies in all types of classes (not just computer science). Join the Digital Learning Network to stay up to date on all events and the latest news for highered digital learning leaders!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

TEN YEARS OF EDUCATION RESEARCH has shown we are failing to use technology effectively with underserved students, who are mostly subjected to “drill-and-practice or remediation” activities, writes Molly B. Higher Education Experts—From the 'Next' Newsletter What’s next in the world of digital learning at the higher ed level ?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

The demand for innovative digital learning technology has never been higher. Esme Learning Solutions is banking on artificial intelligence (AI), collaborative learning experiences and relationships with some of the biggest universities in the world to set them apart from the crowd.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

But they are also–subtly, and critically–the result of technological change. 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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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2017

Education technology is riddled with temptations and false promises. 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. He’s caved in before. “I

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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. And some Ivies offer graduate certificate programs online.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

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. Mara Cabrera, SLIS Graduate Student, Research Assistant Taming the Quantitative Data Monster with LibPAS: What?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Before the invasion of the internet, the university comprised a secure, single identity; now—with about a third of college students online —the American college is bifurcated. It’s a case of sibling rivalry in which the digital younger child is aggressively outdoing her older, favored residential sister.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

A dean of digital learning at MIT, Krishna Rajagopal, resigned in protest , telling colleagues in an email that he had “serious continuing reservations” about the proposed direction. But there are many critics of the deal. And the positive message of Agarwal and Paucek doesn’t square with some vocal protests of the arrangement.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

School Psychology Doctoral Candidate and Intern, CEO STEMx: Stemulating Teaching with Emerging Technology Methodologies - Simulation vs. Virtual Learning Environments - Dr. Nicole Simon, Assistant Professor Engineering/Physics/Technology Dept. Candidate Advanced math for the young, the very young, and the young at heart - Dr.

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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. ’15, and MIT research scientist Justin Reich , Ed.D.’12,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Five professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology say they have some answers. 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.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Just as formal education systems made a dramatic shift to digital since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, on-the-job training is changing as well. The same forces that transformed classrooms have accelerated the adoption of more digital learning in workplace training—advancing a trend that was already underway.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Brown University joins edX. “ Y Combinator MOOC for Tech Startups Attracts Thousands of Views,” says Campus Technology. Not sure why this is called a MOOC. Via The Outline : “ Machine learning is racist because the internet is racist.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. Um, they do.)

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