Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

The other was edX, a nonprofit funded by MIT and Harvard, with high-minded talk by university provosts and presidents about bringing elite education to the world. 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. "EdX

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

Using mobile for educational purposes is a slightly new concept. According to a Google report , almost 80% people don’t exit their homes sans smartphones. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). MOOC is not a new concept in the e-learning industry. It is a powerful way to educate and train yourself or others.

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The PL2C Blog

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

The Friday Institute and Oak Foundation seek to end this anachronism with the Learning Differences MOOC for Educators (MOOC-Ed). VPLCs are virtual meetings using Google Hangouts. When combined with the self-directed, anytime, anywhere learning facilitated in the MOOC-Ed, the experience proved to be powerful.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

Coursera sits somewhat awkwardly on the border between traditional higher education and the Silicon Valley-forces working to disrupt it. That word struck me, since many academics are worried that higher education is becoming too commercialized. It has been five year since Coursera launched its first MOOCs. How’s that going?

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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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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed–With A Caution. I don’t follow higher education very closely, so this is all from 10 feet away. 4 General Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

With an uncertain fall and a deep economic downturn, many believe two-year colleges may be the best answer to meeting the higher education needs of both traditional and non-traditional students and workers looking to learn new skills. Department of Education data. Nearly 40 percent of all undergraduates in the U.S.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Expand Your Use of Google Classroom. Google has opened up Google Classroom to users outside of G Suite for Education. Users with a personal Google account can now both join and create classes. Keep reading!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2022

More than two dozen states now partner with Credential Engine, using the Credential Transparency Description Language it developed to assemble, sort through and better understand their education and workforce data. And some state governments are applying this system to help their residents directly. provide credentials: 59,692.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

We’ll see big growth in higher education services from outside of the university sector, a continued gnashing of teeth from established providers. Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The focus is on tertiary education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has cast a cloud of uncertainty over higher education. We’re now in a situation where work, life and education are starting to blur. What do you see as some of the potential impact for massive online courses or other forms of online education that are outside of the traditional institutions?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

If 2012 was “ The Year of the MOOC ”—massive open online courses, usually offered for free—2017 could be “The Year of the Microcredential.” Proponents say the new offerings will expand access to graduate education and help workers update their skills in fast-changing fields. All universities tend to grow toward new sources of revenue.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The course will cost $49 per month and will be hosted on Coursera, a platform for massive open online courses, or MOOCs, that Ng co-founded in 2012. (He offers through Coursera, which Ng teaches, have had wide appeal on the MOOC website. He left the company in 2014.) Several of the courses Deeplearning.ai

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

In the next few days, thousands of edtech entrepreneurs, investors, educators and policymakers will flood a hotel in San Diego to attend the Mecca of Education Innovation Optimism known as ASU GSV. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 30, 2017

“Innovation” is one of the most used words in education right now. Here are some misconceptions about the word that we need to dispell to protect “innovation” in education from becoming a buzzword. For example, is using a “scantron” to mark multiple choice exams innovative? Look at EdCamp.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Some of this is a result of an influx of Silicon Valley types in recent years — people with no ties to education or education technology who think that their ignorance and lack of expertise is a strength. There are other examples of this historical amnesia in ed-tech specifically, no doubt. We cannot forget this.

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 13, 2018

For example, if you say “relationships matter” and we “need to tell our stories” but the majority of the communication that goes out to the community about the effectiveness of your school is in terms of numbers and rankings, you are telling people what is valued through what you communicate to your community.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

The company already directly partners with employers and tech companies, such as like Lyft and Google, which offer scholarships to students who want to enroll in certain Nanodegree programs. That may look like more courses and programs around app development, for example. Other parts of Udacity’s business plan remain more ambiguous.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Here are six examples of higher-order thinking skills my students developed while creating and playing games: 1. Students recorded these reflections on a Google Doc as a reference for the next time we played. Minecraft MOOC EVO Minecraft MOOC YouTube. A Minecraft Education. IrvSpanish. Vance Stevens.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” ” And I wondered at the time if that would be the outcome for MOOCs. Are any education technologies, for that matter?

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Perry Hewitt

MAY 22, 2015

For those of you already planning your Memorial Day driving routes, Google Maps has released useful, new features alerting users to delays and detours as you enter your destination. Related trivia: Google Maps also released the top destinations from Memorial Day 2014. Now you can search for topics and hashtags directly within Google.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

These are my prepared remarks, delivered on a panel titled “Outsourcing the Classroom to Ed Tech & Machine-learning: Why Parents & Teachers Should Resist” at the Network for Public Education conference in Indianapolis. First, the role that corporations and philanthropists play in shaping education policy is not new.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Now that we’ve assembled international crowds of motivated, smart people online in MOOCs, it’s time to think about harnessing their collective intelligence to tackle these urgent cross-boundary issues. We invite up to 1,000 students who have previously completed two or more of our free MOOCs to apply to participate in these challenges.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It was an edtech entrepreneur’s dream on Wednesday at Intel’s Education Accelerator Demo Day. raised more than $9 million in a recent Series A round , and handheld wireless sensor company PocketLab is now teaming up with Google to bring the pocket-sized lab equipment to the Google Science Journal.

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 20, 2018

I was pleased to read this quote from a recent article, “ Google spent years studying effective teams — and one trait stood out ,” which stated what was most important to the success of teams: What mattered most: Trust. September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon! It was psychological safety.

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Hack Education

MARCH 23, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. State and Local) Education Politics. Education in the Courts. Her remarks.) .”

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

We’ll see big growth in higher education services from outside of the university sector, a continued gnashing of teeth from established providers. Some new services and platforms will emerge to cater for different forms of learning, MOOCs will evolve and improve and open badges will be hot. The focus is on tertiary education.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

In 1997, when he was in his mid 30s, Dr. Jongbok Byun flipped his entire life upside down to pursue his dream of becoming an educator. he’s been using virtual labs to create more realistic learning opportunities for online students—changes he believes will make quality education more authentic and accessible for all learners.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2022

Limited time offers like flash sales are just one example of the kinds of marketing gimmicks that have become common in the past few years as the internet has become flooded with online course providers promising to help people learn new skills to get ahead in their careers or personal lives.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

You can follow the podcast on the Apple Podcast app , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. An example I use in first year writing, I'll say, “You guys will text your parents that you're going out. And it's a great example of that process. And it would be “fund public higher education.” [So

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

The field has deep roots in distance education, human computer interaction, and visual design. But they can also be creating learning apps, museum exhibits, or the latest educational toy. To get serious about education technology, you have to read Seymour Papert. Look at the altMBA program that Seth Godin runs using Slack.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2021

Udemy’s most popular courses focus on technical and business topics—like how to code in Python or how to use Google Analytics. For example, the site no longer allows courses on the topic of “how to pick up girls.” “We He named Delta Airlines as one example.) There are some guidelines for the courses allowed on the site.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. The American Historical Association offers over one thousand Civil War newspaper editorials , for example. Let’s take maps, for example.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The conversation regarding higher education has never been more heated. Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Today’s Millennials have different educational needs from those of previous generations.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

So what does this all mean for education and learning? For example, from our students, do we look for quality and high-level learning as an indicator of success or that a student is doing what they are doing at the time we have told them to do it? September 8, 2016 The #InnovatorsMindset MOOC Starting Soon!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

Here are some of our biggest takeaways from the marathon event: INNOVATION OR TRANSFORMATION IN EDUCATION? 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.”

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