EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 18, 2014

In Unit 4 of the Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed , we learned about the 4 Cs of Digital Age skills: Communication, Collaboration, Critical Thinking, and Creativity. Follow Michael''s board Coaching Digital Learning, #CDL_MOOCed on Pinterest.

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 18, 2014

In the final unit of the Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed , we learned about the importance of and practiced evaluating EdTech tools and resources, such as iPad Apps and websites with the use of rubrics and evaluation tools. One of the these tools is +Kathy Schrock ''s iPad App Evaluation Form.

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EdTechnocation.com

MARCH 19, 2014

Last week, the MOOC-Ed, Coaching Digital Learning: Cultivating a Culture of Change , began. And I find that it can sometimes be difficult for teachers to commit themselves to trying something new, to changing their curriculum and instruction, to allowing their students to explore a new device or tool.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2019

“We’ve had a lot of success in the open-learning space, driving a fair amount of this growth,” he says. We’ve developed this set of teams that creates exemplary online-learning environments and experiences. In parallel, we’ve developed a team that builds tools that enhance the residential learning environment.

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The PL2C Blog

AUGUST 24, 2014

In the spring of 2014, a team from the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation launched to first rendition of a Massive Open Online Course for Educators (MOOC-Ed), titled Coaching Digital Learning | Cultivating a Culture of Change (CDL). 73% of the MOOC-Ed participants indicated the Twitter Chats as Valuable or higher.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A decade ago, large-scale online courses known as MOOCs were all the rage, touted as a possible alternative to traditional college and celebrated in the popular press. So much so that one professor thinks that higher ed should probably be nervous—or at least that colleges should try to learn something from these well-funded efforts.

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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

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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Some education experts have already penned that the vote is likely to pass , potentially raising the cost of accessing learning and student-success tools, prioritizing commercial and entertainment traffic over education and research, and slowing the pace of research and innovation.

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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 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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. 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. favorite, the filmstrip.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2017

Digital learning opportunities are widely available and abundant today. From MOOCs to digital study aids to virtual tutoring, there are many ways for students to hone their academic skills while still maintaining flexibility in their schedules. Here are three ways students can leverage virtual learning experiences: 1.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Maggioncalda calls Coach a “hands-on, interactive” tool, one that lets learners set their own pace with the material. Coursera’s tinkering with engagement tools points to a stark hypothesis about what may be hurtling toward the American higher education system. But learning online remains a hard nut to crack.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The Learning Differences Massive Open Online Course for Educators , offered by MOOC-Ed, part of NC State University’s Friday Institute for Educational Innovation, an Educator Innovator partner, is exactly the kind of professional development opportunity that is worth a teacher’s precious time. You sigh and begin again.

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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

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. That way, variations in technological tools like different interfaces don’t hamper student progress and stress them out.

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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

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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The PL2C Blog

AUGUST 24, 2015

Instructional Technology Coaches Shape Their Future During a MOOC-Ed. Based on context and role, participants used the ITCAP template to create their personal coaching vision and goals, along with specific activities and steps extrapolated from the weekly MOOC-Ed content and their experiences. By: Lisa Hervey.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 3, 2018

Recommended free web tools from the chat are Flipgrid , Seesaw , Buncee , GetKahoot and Spiral. Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. Tools For Beginning English Language Learners [link]. Spiral transforms any classroom into an interactive learning space.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 10, 2018

Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. Find a list of recommended parent engagement web tools here. Joy Radio Show and Marisa Constantinides ( @Marisa_C ), Director of Studies of CELT Athens (where I received my CELTA) and author of TEFL Matters.

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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. But while ClassEDU is building its education tools on Zoom, Engageli is designed to work on any web browser.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The Future of Learning: Convergence of VR, AR, & AI : Treating future technologies as complementary, rather than separate, tools is the best path toward immersive learning. The Evolution of MOOCs: Six Years Later : Are MOOCs still around? Higher Ed 11:00 a.m. Our goal: generate those “Aha!”

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

When I got connected on social media, my lens was expanded and I became aware additional organizations, as well as their supporting tools and resources. This is the third post in a short series meant to highlight the great work of many nonprofit organizations that are working diligently to support students’ learning on a daily basis.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And as they revise, they can see how long learners spent looking at that passage and other details about how they moved through the digital tool, since every action leaves breadcrumbs to analyze. As a result, educators have been forced to rethink how they teach using digital instructional tools and practices.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Renaissance Learning will host SXSWedu’s kickoff bash with beverages at Buffalo Billiards from 7:30 p.m. Opinionated Products : There’s a word for the kinds of tools and products—like say, Google search results—which adapt to a user’s behavior: opinionated. to 11:00 p.m. K-12 11:00 a.m.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Edtech companies use these buzzwords to describe the next generation of learning tools. 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. “Self-paced.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Even as technology can help students, there are plenty of instances where it can also lead to dead ends: Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) did not make it possible for anyone on the planet to get the equivalent of a Stanford University degree for free. Expect to see a more robust iteration of the Digital Learning Network in October.

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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 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). for example). Why-Notness.

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Bryan Alexander

DECEMBER 29, 2015

Skepticism about the quality of online learning could migrate to the general population. And the MOOC numbers look like they’re rising. Unless the worm turns globally, I’d expect planet MOOC to keep growing in 2016. We still see the majority of campuses failing to formally recognize professors’ digital work.

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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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EdTechSandyK

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Unifying Theme: Transliteracy is the ability to read, write, and interact across a range of platforms, tools, and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks. myINSERTYOURSCHOOLNAMEHERE How have you positioned your school for anywhere, anytime, any device learning?

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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. Small-scale seminars can be intimate and powerful. It never does.

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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.”) More often than not, these platforms also come with a series of tools that enable their users to build their own products, services, and marketplaces. Students will receive iPads.

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