Mark Smithers

MARCH 12, 2013

This morning Richard Grusin posted a series of twenty tweets presenting a highly critical and thought provoking view of MOOCs. MOOCs are the bastard children of 1980s cyber-utopianism and post-1945 economic neoliberalism. MOOCs are a 21st century manifestation of cyberspace’s revolutionary ideology of information freedom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Until lately, those online MIT courses have somewhat resembled so-called massive open online courses, or MOOCs, says Clara Piloto, director of global programs at MIT Professional Education. Now, as MOOCs have evolved to court professional audiences , so too have MIT’s efforts to harness companies and organizations.

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

This means that there are more concepts, terms, and trends in education that teachers need to be aware of - but how do you keep track of them all? It is also often referred to as “hybrid learning” and can incorporate many different types of education technology. MOOC refers to a massive online open course, a type of distance learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

With some schools already announcing they will not reopen normally in the fall, and many others considering their options , educators are hoping to take advantage of the summer to improve on this spring’s sink-or-swim plunge into distance learning.

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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. Make students put skin in the game.

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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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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

When people talk about the future of technology in education, they picture every student having access to a computer or a tablet; they see paperless rooms where technology trained teachers lead the class. The future of education is increased inter-connectivity. Open Ended Education. New Learning Platforms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

In the late 1960s, Nobel Prize-winning economist Herbert Simon posed the following thought exercise: Imagine you are an alien from Mars visiting a college on Earth, and you spend a day observing how professors teach their students. A substantial part of the nation’s resources are being devoted to higher education,” Simon said.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

When professor Lorena Barba talks to other educators about flipping their classrooms, the approach she hears is often similar. The MOOC is an extension of the on-campus course—it was really just making our on-campus experience public and open for anyone to follow,” says Barba.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 6, 2023

What can be done to accommodate all types of students with outcome-based education and Bloom’s taxonomy? Courtesy Firstly, we would like to thank all the educators who have contributed to building the Linways platform. The lack of this connection makes the whole exercise ineffective.

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Bryan Alexander

MAY 27, 2016

” What does open education mean for higher education? We then asked the audience to pick which aspect of open education we should pursue: psychology, design, personalization, professional development, adult learners, motivations, audiences, global perspectives, or cultural sensitivity? professions.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

In 2016, Credential Engine set out to tally all the badges , degrees, certificates, licenses and diplomas available to denote educational attainment. What may sound like a meditative exercise in patience does have a practical purpose. They’re still counting. So far, the Washington, D.C.-based

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

The fitness coach can’t exercise for you. A fitness coach is a fitness coach because he or she likes to exercise, and that’s why they’re all buff, right? These MOOCs are free. Well people say, “But the MOOCs aren’t very successful, most people drop out.” And who does best at MOOCs? You have to do the work.

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Wired Campus

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

When students enroll in MOOCs, they almost always watch a series of video lectures. The study, “Learning Is Not a Spectator Sport: Doing Is Better than Watching for Learning From a MOOC,” looked at a group of Georgia students in a course called “ Introduction to Psychology as a Science.”

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. Sharma has a background in technology and video production (he actively researches and writes about educational technology and knowledge translation) led him to consider how to bridge that divide.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

MOOC uses new AP Physics curriculum, could aid both students and teachers. Caroline Levander, Rice’s vice president of strategic initiatives and digital education, said the provisions for the course’s teaching, tutoring, books, homework and review services are well worth the investment for Rice.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Despite all the promises of education technology in transforming how students learn, change has been, at best, incremental. Bold claims have been made in the past decade about personalized learning, automated assessments and massive open online courses (MOOCs).

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Learning with 'e's

DECEMBER 8, 2015

In recent years, education has evolved to the point where learning can take place anywhere and at any time, usually beyond the walls of the traditional learning space. Although distance education has been in existence for more than a century, the various technological means by which it can now be conducted have advanced quickly.

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The Principal of Change

JUNE 5, 2018

This past week, I had the pleasure to join Meghan Lawson and her team in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was able to facilitate a student panel on education. The things they know about education reminds me how much more intelligent students are than I was when I was the same age. To listen to these students was both mind-blowing and humbling.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Usman Khaliq was an engineering student in northeastern Pakistan when he took his first MOOC. He quickly began supplementing his education with online courses from Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. complete multiple MOOCs. complete multiple MOOCs. Between 2014 and 2016 Usman earned 21. Rethinking the 5% Completion Rate.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Both carry decades of educational experience. While at edX Porter created the Open edX project, which has served more than 55 million learners taking massive open online courses, or MOOCs. Esme is its first education technology investment. Esme classes involve small group exercises that simulate real-word business scenarios.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 29, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. The great majority of these events are free to attend. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution.

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Learning with 'e's

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

On 3-4 December I'll be in Manchester to present a keynote speech at the Inspire Conference , sponsored by the Higher Education Academy. M y key premise is that l earning technology is just about everywhere in education. In fact, as a lecturer working in higher education, I consider myself to be a professional learner.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

This fall, students taking introductory statistics courses at six colleges will pilot using a tool to complete lab exercises in teams, working in sync with partners who are miles away. MOOCs get social. In summer 2016 Rosé and her team used Bazaar to run a team-based project for a MOOC offered by the Smithsonian Institution.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Knee’s “ Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education ,” reprinted with permission. Everyone comes to the subject of education with deep preconceptions from their own formative life experiences. Class Clowns: How the Smartest Investors Lost Billions in Education by Jonathan A.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2017

Education technology is riddled with temptations and false promises. As an example, Brown pointed to his own university, which last week ran a 24-hour live brainstorming exercise that invited anyone to share their ideas about what the college should be working on. “We An example he points to is the way his university approaches MOOCs.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

My point in the original post was about KA trying to be a curriculum — a complete one-stop educational resource. to transform the academy from his own personal YouTube channel into an educational nonprofit with Silicon Valley start-up DNA. comments multiple times. The difference is more than merely semantic.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update February 25th Never let formal education get in the way of your learning. These events bring together educators, learners, leaders, and others to rethink and reinvent education. These events bring together educators, learners, leaders, and others to rethink and reinvent education.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 14, 2015

For almost a century, technology enthusiasts have promised that new innovations can democratize education. In our own time, advocates of online learning promise to level the educational playing fields with massive open online courses, MOOCs. By John Hansen and Justin Reich.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The exercise was part of “Civic Online Reasoning,” a series of news-literacy lessons being developed by Stanford researchers and piloted by teachers at a few dozen schools. In January, they plan to launch a massive online open course (aka a MOOC) called Making Sense of the News: News Literacy Lessons for Digital Citizens.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Deep beneath the surface of a massive refugee crisis that’s the worst since World War II is the less well understood reality that tens of thousands of university students leaving Syria and other countries have had their educations interrupted — educations needed for those nations to rebuild if and when the conflicts in them end.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 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. Immigration and Education.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” ” “Make MOOCs great again.” ” Trump has threatened to close the Department of Education. Education Politics. Is that possible?

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Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy "DeVos says Trump education budget ‘places power in the hands of parents and families’," Michigan Live reports. DeVos’s statement from the Department of Education Press Office. billion cut from the Department of Education ’s budget. That’s 13.5%.).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

Here’s a story from the Hechinger archives about the “lost generation” of refugees who are languishing in red tape as they seek to resume their college educations in the U.S. A draft executive order prepared for President Donald Trump would suspend visas for refugees from certain countries. In Syria alone, from which 4.8

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2016

One of the mantras of that dream – the idea that economic success is possible if not inevitable – involves the necessity of education. “Education can be the difference, that education can save lives, that education can put folks on a path to opportunity,” Secretary of Education John B.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 17, 2016

What does increasing inequality mean for American higher education? Next I took the audience through the impacts of inequality on education, including K-12 and higher education. Face-to-face instruction was the privilege of the 1%, while the middle class made do with distance learning, and everyone else had versions of MOOCs.

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