Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2020

As always, education is changing. Unsurprisingly, technology is also impacting the world of education. In fact, a study on Forbes found that global education technology (EdTech) is one of the fastest-growing segments today, and is expected to be worth $252 billion by the end of this year. Data Analytics.

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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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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Notes from MOOCs for Professional Development Presentation at TCEA 2015 Dr. Kay Abernathy, Lamar University [link] Lamar University sponsored the MOOC on Social Media Communication Tools for Educators which Dr. Abernathy facilitated. You can build up to five MOOCs for free on this platform. link] What is a MOOC?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Some edtech entrepreneurs are eager for Web3 to arrive and change education. Among them: Are crypto-entrepreneurs imagining better systems for education—or just systems that pay off better financially for themselves? Before forging our own ponderous chains, then, let’s explore what Web3 innovators might have in store for education.

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The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

What does innovation mean for education, and should every educator be an innovator? Not only is this a great way to dig deeper into the content of the book, it is an amazing opportunity to create your own learning, while networking with passionate educators around the world. Join the Facebook group. Twitter Chat.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Could the rise in MOOC-based and other certificates affect how traditional college degree paths are designed? Those were a couple of the questions debated at #DLNchat on Tuesday, October 9, when we discussed how nontraditional education providers could influence the future of digital learning. Our student population is totally global.

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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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The Principal of Change

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Thank you for signing up for “The Innovator’s Mindset” MOOC, happening over a six week period. We will talk to diverse educators and hear about their experiences, thoughts on innovation and the book, as well as how they learn, lead and inspire students. Part 1: Innovation in Education. Tweeting to the #IMMOOC hashtag.

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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. Digital edtech Learning mooc MOOC-Ed'

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

Ashok Goel has a vision for the future of education. He hopes AI bots—such as his most well-known, a virtual teaching assistant named Jill Watson —may help to ease the entrenched tensions that make education such a “ wicked problem ” to solve. Goel: Education is a wicked problem. We want education to be accessible.

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EdTechnocation.com

APRIL 18, 2014

Unit 5 of the Coaching Digital Learning MOOC-Ed focused on Digital Citizenship. Just because you are an educational institution and your students are creating projects for the classroom does not mean you can use other people''s work and their images freely. Facebook might have some creepers and inappropriate pictures, block it.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2022

The academy is intended to build on Coursera’s business offerings by adding entry-level certificates from Meta—the company formerly known as Facebook—and IBM, as well as altering the user experience for its certificates to better show how they lead to jobs. Entry-level industry certificates are receiving a lot of attention these days.

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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

JULY 3, 2015

Notable findings include that a clear majority of 58% seniors now use the internet — while the overall percentage is lower, it’s rising quickly (see also: Facebook). Class and educational attainment remain access factors but are shrinking. The first one: MOOC students are diverse, but trend toward autodidacts.

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Bryan Alexander

MARCH 19, 2016

Here’s an outline of topics that came up, partly from my FTTE observations, partly from participants: Education and its contexts : I mentioned recent trends about state funding to public higher ed (increasing!), Ellen Borkowski asked about Watson for education. Participants spoke to early childhood computing.

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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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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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The Thinking Stick

NOVEMBER 19, 2014

This is going to come as a shock I know…but pre-service education programs are not preparing teachers for a technology rich classroom teaching experience. I have had the privilege of meeting with pre-service educators in both undergraduate programs and Master’s In Teaching programs…mostly here in the State of Washington.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

We’ve now been able to put this lie to bed that people can actually shop on Facebook and listen to your lecture and take good notes all simultaneously. These MOOCs are free. Well people say, “But the MOOCs aren’t very successful, most people drop out.” And who does best at MOOCs? That’s really the point of education.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 30, 2018

Although education prepares us to teach, it is the love of learning that sustains us.”- The educators you meet will share resources, experience, and offer support! We will share and meet regularly on our Facebook group, Twitter (#EduGoalsMOOC), and through weekly live events (expert panels on Google Hangouts).

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2013

In education, the common objective is usually to learn specific content, skills or competencies within defined areas. You could see where we might place formal learning using a VLE, or where students might meet to chat using Facebook, for example. MOOCs take learning even farther away from the classroom. Learning is learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 5, 2021

Asynchronous learning has also been referred to as Location Independent Learning, an accurate description that misses some of the bigger ideas embedded in this modern approach to education. Consider that the goal of education is for students to learn not to demonstrate that they have learned.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 18, 2015

On the eve of its third iteration, CLMOOC has expanded, but the idea remains the same: the free informal event engages educators in making and sharing, online and off. Projects range from the playful to the thought-provoking and, as in Weller’s case, often inspire educators to reimagine their professional practices.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

In fact, aside from the predictable few flickers of Facebook and Twitter, it seemed most of the students were actually working on something productive. And in the process of trying to educate myself on the matter, I’ve come to a scary realization: Edtech is trapped in Ben Bloom’s basement. But the technology itself was not my concern.

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Learning with 'e's

MAY 7, 2013

My own father, now 84 years old, started a Facebook account so he could keep in touch with distant relatives in such places as New Zealand and Australia. Many of us regularly communicate with multiple Twitter and Facebook friends and acquaintances instantaneously even though they may be in another country. The stories go on and on.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s won a national teacher-of-the-year award and his viral videos about education earned him praise from Wired magazine. It’s a new kind of MOOC, and it’s a new kind of philosophy,” he says. I was not well educated in alternative narratives to why segregations exists.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

EdSurge: Udacity rode the wave of hype around MOOCs, massive open online courses, when the company started back in 2011. But more recently, the company’s co-founder, Sebastian Thrun, has insisted that Udacity is not a MOOC company. How do the so-called Nanodegrees that Udacity delivers differ? We do that by partnering with industry.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 25, 2017

We need to remember who education serves; the students. There are way too many awesome stories in education of schools doing great things for students in forward thinking ways. If you ask me for my thoughts on a topic, and then disregard or ignore what I say, you have wasted my time. I am sure any group of students would agree.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Now in its seventh year, the annual gathering brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, educators and industry experts from around the world for four days stacked with panel discussions , workshops , an expo hall , meetups , film screenings —plus plenty of after-hours shindigs. to 11:00 p.m. Higher Ed 12:30 p.m. 5:00 p.m.

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Hack Education

APRIL 20, 2018

I’m also working on a magazine article that’ll come out this fall on education technology and venture capital. But I’m curious how one forms that thesis in education. ” This happens all the time, of course, and not just at “business of education” conferences. .” “We know it works.”

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The Principal of Change

DECEMBER 7, 2016

When I recently saw this video being shared on Facebook, I had to share it myself. November 21, 2016 The Mantra of An Innovative Educator (Video) March 22, 2015 Innovation has no age barrier. In my opinion, Bruno Mars was one of the most memorable Super Bowl half time shows I have ever seen. A couple of things that stuck out to me.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2019

What lessons can be learned from the rise and pivot of MOOCs, those large-scale online courses that proponents said would disrupt higher education? At the start of the MOOC trend in 2012, the promise was that the free online courses could reach students who could not afford or get access to other forms of higher education.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The conversation regarding higher education has never been more heated. Today’s Millennials have different educational needs from those of previous generations. Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources.

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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

This is such a strange and necessary time to talk about education technology, to take a class about education technology, to get a degree in education technology because what, in the past, was so often framed as optional or aspirational is now compulsory — and compulsory under some of the worst possible circumstances.

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Wired Campus

APRIL 23, 2015

Experimental Evidence From a Massive Open Online Course,” was published by the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute this month. He examined the online behavior of 657 students who participated in a nine-week MOOC on statistics offered by Stanford University. MOOCs Online Courses'

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Wired Campus

AUGUST 6, 2015

George Siemens is a key innovator in higher education, having coined the term “MOOC” and worked to study the effectiveness of online learning. So it’s no surprise that he was invited to a recent closed-door gathering at the White House to discuss “innovation and quality in higher education.”. has,” he said. “It

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