EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 2, 2017

BYOL – Bring Your Own Learning. CMS – Content Management System (a tool to build websites and apps). LMS – Learning Management System (software that runs and manages educational programs). MLD – Mobile Learning Devices. MLearning – Mobile Learning. NGDLE – Next-generation Digital Learning Environment.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Coursera’s tinkering with engagement tools points to a stark hypothesis about what may be hurtling toward the American higher education system. I like that WGU doesn’t force us into a semester system, with three to four classes every semester. But learning online remains a hard nut to crack. It’s too much to type into a chatbot.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But Charles Severance , a University of Michigan professor who also teaches massive open online courses (MOOCs) on Coursera , doesn’t think higher education will be terribly affected, he tells EdSurge. And slowly but surely, he says, we will end up with a “sewage system” of a network that we’ll have to pay more for.

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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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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. The real power of digital technology to increase learning remains untapped. OER and open books.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

Learning is no more institutionalized, and people still take courses and grow their skillset beyond colleges or universities. So to be on the current, institutions should focus on how to engage with the students, how to assure a certain level of quality in teaching-learning, and how digital learning is perceived.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A new book, “ Learning Innovation and the Future of Higher Education ,” looks at how to create systems that apply the science of learning into actual teaching. Learn More at www.destinationsacademy.com/school-districts. The hype around MOOCs and other disruptive tech at colleges has faded.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2020

But at least one online-learning expert thinks that's a bad decision, especially for vulnerable students. That case was made on Twitter this week by Justin Reich, an assistant professor at MIT and the director of the Teaching Systems Lab there. He made his argument in a 20-tweet thread.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

New study in @PNASNews on MOOC persistence- 2.5 The best work we do in edtech has a kind of tinker’s mindset to it,” he adds, meaning that teachers and developers make small changes to systems like learning-management systems and videoconferencing tools over time that gradually improve online learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2022

His prophecy was based on the notion that digital alternatives to face-to-face education—in his view, much cheaper and friendlier than conventional instruction—would convince millions of college students to turn their backs on stodgy, old campuses to earn degrees in internet alternatives instead. colleges will remain standing.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

For Pickett, it is a struggle to implement new digital learning styles with adult students as many of them are accustomed to traditional lecture models and are dismayed when they don't get what they expect. “Most of my students come in with a lot of trepidation and a lot of anxiety,” says Pickett, speaking about her graduates at SUNY.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Some of the podcasters got their start making educational videos or or producing MOOCs, those free online classes that were all the rage a few years ago, but ended up not living up to the hype. That’s the case for Davis, who for several years was a producer of video classes for HarvardX, Harvard’s MOOC production wing. “I

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

“We want to build from the ground up an inclusive learning system for students and faculty, one that can recreate engaging, live learning experiences online,” says Dan Avida. The couple is no longer with Coursera, which is now valued at $2.5 That vision has investors feeling stoked. million seed round for Engageli.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. At the very dawn of digital education, Canada introduced one of the very first learning management systems, WebCT, a pivotal application, invented at the University of British Columbia in 1997. I’ve always thought of the U.S.

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 3, 2017

For too long education systems have been standardising content, assessment and the learning experience. Clearly, one size does not fit all, and we need personalised learning experiences for our students if we are to prepare them for an ever changing, volatile world. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

It’s a major pain point in the education system: Between 40 percent to 60 percent of college students now need some form of remedial math, or English, or both, and the United States ranks 36th out of a comparison group of 79 countries in math proficiency, according to the 2018 Programme for International Student Assessment.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

AASA members range from chief executive officers, superintendents and senior level school administrators to cabinet members, professors and aspiring school system leaders. The Alliance also has run Digital Learning Day for the past five years. ASCD. Connect: www.ascd.org , @ASCD. Connect: [link] , @IELconnects.

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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.” Love is the orientation that can move us from systemically decomplexifying education to embracing its richness.”

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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 29, 2018

DLNchat -ters voiced the need to create algorithms and other AI systems within carefully construed ethical frameworks. Join the Digital Learning Network to stay up to date on all events and the latest news for highered digital learning leaders! How do we keep algorithms in check?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

In its current form, our higher-education system amplifies and solidifies national inequities, when it could do the opposite. Because higher-ed students—the people at the core of learning—are too frequently left out of the conversation, we debuted EdSurge Independent , a student-led place for discussion and learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Public Private Partnerships - The K-12 Funding Gap : Many inequalities in the American education system can be attributed to massive funding gaps between schools. And now, many schools are turning to private-public partnerships to fill those shortages.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

I remember I used to go around, and I would give a presentation about the importance of online learning. In it, it would say, “It will harden the education system against things like public national disasters, epidemics,” and so forth. And you could see audiences looking at me going, “You know she’s just a prepper.”

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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. Applies to U. Maryland and U Penn.

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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.”) It may be the hardware or the operating system (OS), even a web browser or other underlying software, as long as the program code is executed in it. If so, what are they?

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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 4, 2012

myINSERTYOURSCHOOLNAMEHERE How have you positioned your school for anywhere, anytime, any device learning? Are you providing digital learning spaces where students have ownership of their content? Where it is not locked in a learning management system? (Ex: Learning not limited to a class roster.

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Wired Campus

JUNE 5, 2015

The consortium has also agreed on a standard software framework, pledging to use the learning-management system Canvas, which is open source. Some people involved in digital education say the group’s goal is timely and important. ” But a year is a long time in the digital-learning world, Ms.

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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. The challenge will be to imagine how best to shape this change.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2021

One Ivy, Columbia University, actually got an early start 35 years ago at the dawn of the digital age, when it launched its Video Network that now produces about a dozen online engineering master’s degrees. Ivy League colleges now offer more than 450 of these courses. And some Ivies offer graduate certificate programs online.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2014

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

Move Away From Corporate Style Environments The environment in which corporate learning takes place is changing also. The report concludes that ‘companies are struggling to redesign the training environment, incorporate new learning technologies, and utilize the incredible array of digital learning tools now available’.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? Build, Play, Learn - Fun STEM Activities for School Year and Summer Camp Programs - Laura Briggs, STEM Camp Director, Technology Resource Teacher Get Your Students Outside with Technology!

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The PL2C Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

By Brittany Miller | Digital Learning Coach, Friday Institute. Tips for Consideration : Utilize a 3 color system across your course using analogous or triad color harmonies to build an online space that is visually pleasant for the participants.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

But the paper does lay out a set of concrete recommendations for what this new type of university, which is simply called an NEI, or New Educational Institution, should include to fill what the authors see as gaps in the current system. The paper was published by the Abdul Latif Jameel World Education Lab at MIT.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. MOOCs continued to increase in number and attendance. And it has.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Carnegie Mellon announced it would open source its digital learning software. Something about "learning engineers". ASU ends its MOOC experiment , Global Freshman Academy. The University of Alaska system braced for campus closures and layoffs after its operating budget was slashed by 41%. Udacity got a new CEO.

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