Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2019

But NYU isn’t the only school trying to offer free medical training. 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). MOOCs, The New OPM?

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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

MARCH 8, 2021

It’s no wonder that when remote learning flooded our universities in the pandemic—except for a handful of colleges that take teaching seriously—few senior academic officers recognized that faculty training would be decisive. Instead, they went ahead, plugging into Zoom, trusting that technology alone would do the trick. “By

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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. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

The second week our focus is on student motivation and we will be designing learning missions and digital badges. Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! Video Recording.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

What I’m trying to determine by asking that question is whether or not the time I devote to that session, that training, or that course is going to be multiplied (or better still exponentiated) and returned to me so that I, in turn, can give more to my students. I do not mean, Do I have a free spot on my calendar? You sigh and begin again.

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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. Some are trying higher ed for the first time, while others tried college before but didn’t complete it, and still others have advanced degrees but want training in a specific skill or subject.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! The chat takes place on Saturday, March 3rd, at 4p m UTC/ 11am ET/ 10am CT/ 8am PT. Check your time zone here ! Take part in the Twitter chat easily on Participate !

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. OPMs topped the cycle in 2015. million in 2019 to 18.6

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 22, 2020

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. Some of them are developing their own courses to train workers in the skills the company needs. It’s not an instructor-focused show.

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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. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! 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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Teacher Reboot Camp

MARCH 3, 2018

Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! The chat takes place on Saturday, March 10th, at 4p m UTC/ 11am ET/ 10am CT/ 8am PT. Check your time zone here ! Take part in the Twitter chat easily on Participate !

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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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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 30, 2018

Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! Your moderators for the 5 modules are Fabiana Casella ( @FabLCasellaEDU ) from Argentina, Kelly Jake Duncan ( @JKDNCN ) from Texas, and me ( @ShellTerrell).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This was the year that more people learned what a MOOC is. As millions suddenly found themselves with free time on their hands during the pandemic, many turned to online courses—especially, to free courses known as MOOCs, or Massive Open Online Courses. 2012, the “ Year of the MOOC ” was characterized by media hype.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

We find no one with a professional knowledge in the laws of learning, or the techniques for applying them,” he wrote. Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training. And the approach produced graduates who vastly outperformed cohorts trained using traditional methods.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Scaling Digital Learning with the CWiC Framework : Advocates of digital learning tout its potential to impact student success—but much of that depends on how institutions implement, choose and incorporate digital products with students and faculty.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

And very rapidly, there’s just a lot happening in terms of more tele-work and more digital work. I think most employee development and training, which was already largely online, [will remain being] done online. I think we’re alright, in most states, being forced to work at home if you hadn’t embraced it already.

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MindShift

AUGUST 6, 2018

To defeat it, you can instead train a helpful zombie—get used to turning your phone off, silencing it, or leaving it in another room. If your brother interrupts you, train your helpful inner zombie to tell your brother you’re “doing a Pomodoro.” They trained their bodies to expect it. It’s your bad “study while texting” zombie.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2016

Learning Professionals Are Now Becoming Specialists The industry has recognised a need for corporate learning professionals to be highly qualified and experienced in their specific area rather than possessing general knowledge on training. Mary Frenson is a Marketing Assistant at Check Director.

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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.”) ” 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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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or Learning to Go. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! I actually did this for one of my Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Give digital badges or set it up to where students can level up on a leaderboard ! Ideas & Resources.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2017

As you think about the future of digital education, where do you see microcredentials fitting in? That’s what the former MOOCs [such as Coursera and Udacity] have driven toward for a business model and they’re getting some revenue and scale out of it. You can train someone to have a skill set; you can't train the spirit.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Candidate Advanced math for the young, the very young, and the young at heart - Dr. Smith, Director of Programs Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) for STEM - Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

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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

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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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Via Chalkbeat’s Colorado news desk : “$35 million for school safety will go toward training, but not hiring, of school resource officers.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” The Business of Job Training. ” Privacy law in Illinois , that is.

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

After all, the ad said that Sea Monkeys could “swim, play scoot, race and do comical tricks and stunts,” and I imagined that I could train them. In 2004, the mantra might have been “everyone should learn real estate”; now it’s “everyone should learn to code.” What are MOOCs, for example?

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Free MOOCs Face the Music,” writes Inside Higher Ed on edX ’s decision to start charging fees. More “MOOC” news under the job training section below. ” The Business of Job Training. Heatherton. million total.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via Politico : Western Governors University , “the nation’s leading provider of competency-based educatio n – which the Education Department’s independent watchdog last month said violated federal student aid rules – is expanding into North Carolina.”

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Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “The MOOC is not dead, but maybe it should be,” says Rolin Moe. The Business of Job Training. ” From the NCES , a look at “ the homework gap ”: “Student Access to Digital Learning Resources Outside of the Classroom.”

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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. The Business of Job Training. ” This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Perhaps the district didn’t know what New York City learned when it audited its old data portal : it found that less than 3% of parents had ever logged in. There are a variety of reasons for this: language barriers, lack of Internet access, incompatible devices, lack of training. Uber for Education". “We You're sexist. Unbundling".

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

” I suppose I could put this in “the business of job training” section, but as Woz U has partnered with the for-profit Southern Careers Institute , it probably should remain here in this section despite the glowing press it received from tech publications about how this venture is going to unlock tech careers.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Representative Ron DeSantis introduced a bill Tuesday that would allow states to set up a parallel accrediting system to direct federal student aid money to a range of career training programs.” The Business of Job Training. “What is Agentic Learning and Why is it Important?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). There’s more MOOC news in the HR section below. The Business of Job Training (and Educational Benefits for Employees). ” Via Edsurge : “Only 28% of Districts Have Enough Bandwidth to Use Digital Learning Every Day.”

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Hack Education

JULY 21, 2017

” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” The LA Times asks , “ In this digital self-help age, just how effective are MasterClass ’s A-list celebrity workshops?” ” Via Education Week : “For Principals, Student Sexting a Speeding ‘Freight Train,’ Full of Peril.”

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