Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

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. Dhawal Shaw, founder of MOOC-discovery platform Class Central. And it is the richest, with nearly three-quarters of a billion in cash in the bank, and annual revenue of about $260 million. "EdX

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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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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 7, 2018

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. Many prestigious universities such as Harvard offers MOOC at minimal or no cost. Smartphones have become an essential part of our lives.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And it was just a few years after the launch of the first MOOCs, putting the online higher ed market newly in the spotlight as it continued its steady growth. And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2017

The venture-backed startup based in Mountain View (near all those online giants like Google and Facebook) has partnered with more than 150 colleges and universities around the world (including the old and famous ones like Princeton and Yale). 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. For example, I enjoy using Twitter for the educational Twitter chats. Google+ also plays a very important role in my PLN and I feel like is the most effective social media tool for me.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Examples Of Innovation In Higher Ed–With A Caution. 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. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples.

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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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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

For example, a leader from the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development explained during the webinar how her state is creating a digital search tool that lets people select among all the credential options available to them, sorting by occupation, program location and graduate outcomes. provide credentials: 59,692.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

While high-resolution data for community colleges isn’t available, we can see evidence for this in proxies such as Google search trends , consumers’ growing openness and intention to study online , booming MOOC enrollment , and publicly-traded online learning company enrollment results. Better state-level coordination could also help.

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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

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.” But the programs also serve as an example of how colleges, increasingly thinking like businesses, are eager to find new ways to bring in revenue.

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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. Collaboration Minecraft is a game with a vast online community.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

One of our portfolio companies LearnPlatform publishes a regular “ Edtech Top 40 ” list of the most used edtech products in K12 schools nationwide: perhaps unsurprisingly, Google products take 8 of the top 10 spots. But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. LTM revenue.

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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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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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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

" I like to cite, as an example, a New Yorker article from a few years ago that interviewed Anthony Levandoski, the Uber engineer sued by Google for stealing its self-driving car technology. There are other examples of this historical amnesia in ed-tech specifically, no doubt. We can debate which one. Unfathomable.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

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 MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

When I joined Ashford, the MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) had just started and it was quite an interesting movement. For example, when they designed a program and ran it, they didn't know whether the results were correct or not until they got the feedback from the instructor. Ashford was one of the leading schools in that area.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

My classmates from Stanford’s Learning Design and Technology master’s program have gone on to design for big brands like Airbnb and Google as well as edtech upstarts including the African Leadership University, General Assembly, Osmo and Udacity. For example, look at the examples of host education that Airbnb puts together.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The American Historical Association offers over one thousand Civil War newspaper editorials , for example. We could participate in a number of free Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs), including over a dozen on Chinese History from Harvard University. Let’s take maps, for example.

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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. Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast.

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 7, 2015

We are thinking of artifacts such as the early connectivist MOOCs (cMOOCs) by Siemens and Downes, and more recent ones like #rhizo14/15, #ccourses, #clmooc and such. We also do not want to ignore the early history of networked learning from the early days of eLearning, pre-social media and MOOCs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

There is a help desk, with a handmade sign that reads: If you have a question: Google It. Even MOOCs have a professor, even if it might be one for 100,000 people. You were sitting at the computer, and were you looking at MOOCs from other colleges, or were you tapping the person next to you to ask a question? Ask your neighbor.

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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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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.” Peter Thiel’s initiative, the Thiel Fellowship , underscores this growing perception.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

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! So what does this all mean for education and learning?

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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

AUGUST 8, 2016

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.” And he’s seen “a laundry list” of promising examples over the last few years. I don’t think that’s what’s going on here.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 30, 2017

For example, is using a “scantron” to mark multiple choice exams innovative? There are a million ways that you can use google forms, but the ability to use “google forms” is not innovative’; it is what you do with it that creates the innovative practice in the classroom.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

edX - www.edex.org - MOOC site, courses are all free, people who teach the courses are from Harvard, MIT, Berkeley, University of Texas, etc. Coursera is another option for higher ed MOOCS. Close to 10% of students got into MIT by excelling in a MOOC. For example, this young man from Mongolia. I LOVE Diigo!)

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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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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2018

Pearson, for example, was founded (albeit as a construction company) in 1844 and acquired along the long history various textbook publishing companies which have also been around since the turn of the twentieth century. .” MOOCs were going to change everything. They have been at this a long, long time. And on and on and on.

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Mark Smithers

JANUARY 20, 2014

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 MOOC backlash. Of course I have to start with MOOCs. The MOOC backlash started in earnest in 2013. MOOC providers will keep on refining them. Introduction.

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